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Navigating Systems for Impacted Families: Advocacy, Empowerment, and Resources

Posted 4/3/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)

This session will discuss the critical importance and varied ways of supporting families as they navigate through systems of care, supervision, and control. The session will focus on: (1) the critical importance of access to legal services for advocacy and problem solving related to custody, assistance with guardianship/kinship care, and conflict resolution; (2) the importance of understanding the impact of traumatic stress among children, how interventions that serve families should address trauma, and traumatic stress, and the ways trauma reactions seen as behavioral outbursts often impact access to services via discharge or denial of services; (3) point-of-care access and the need to partner with providers we don’t traditionally think of when dealing with SUD—pediatricians, for example. Presenters will also discuss helping families navigate systems by shifting culture, policies, stigma, and services, which they are doing intentionally, strategically, and thoroughly, particularly with regard to pregnant and early parenting women with OUD.

  • Helen Gratil, J.D., Legal Aid of Arkansas;
  • Kay Connors, M.S.W., LCSW-C, Taghi Modarressi Center for Infant Study, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine;
  • Jessica Hulsey Nickel, B.A., Addiction Policy Forum;
  • Mandy Fauble, Ph.D., M.S.W., LCSW, Safe Harbor Behavioral Health of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hamot

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Event Date

3/4/2020