Citation

Metsch LR, Rivers JE, Miller M, Bohs R, McCoy CB, Morrow CJ, Bandstra ES, Jackson V, Gissen M. J. Psychoactive Drugs 1995; 27(1): 73-83.

Affiliation

Comprehensive Drug Research Center, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33136, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Haight-Ashbury Publications in association with the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7602443

Abstract

Recent federal health financing and health care delivery programs have increased access to alcohol and other drug abuse treatment programs for low-income women, and have provided intervention and prevention services for their children and families. The Village South Families in Transition (FIT) in Miami, Florida, implemented a residential treatment program for women and their children that aims to decrease alcohol and other drug use, reduce reliance on social and health welfare systems, improve functioning in specific life-skill and vocational areas, improve parenting techniques and maternal/child relations, and provide intervention and prevention services for the clients' children in a safe and supportive environment. Program implementation required resolutions to numerous barriers, including securing a facility for women and children; recruiting, hiring and training of staff; establishing and maintaining community linkages; treatment considerations; balancing treatment versus evaluation/research; and critical decisions faced by treatment staff as they modify client-centered programs to incorporate gender-specific and family-centered programs.

Language: en