Interagency collaboration: Strengthening substance abuse resources in child welfare

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• 作者：Amy S. He ; ^{amy.he@du.edu} ; Jon Phillips
• 关键词：Interagency collaboration ; Child welfare ; Substance abuse resources
• 刊名：Child Abuse & Neglect
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：64
• 期：Complete
• 页码：101-108
• 全文大小：377 K
• 卷排序：64

文摘

Supporting child welfare (CW) workers’ ability to accurately assess substance abuse needs and link families to appropriate services is critical given the high prevalence of parental substance use disorders (SUD) among CW-involved cases. Several barriers hinder this process, including CW workers’ lack of expertise for identifying SUD needs and scarcity of treatment resources. Drawing from theories and emergent literature on interagency collaboration, this study examined the role of collaboration in increasing the availability of resources for identifying and treating SUDs in CW agencies. Using data from the second cohort of families from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, study findings highlight a lack of SUD resources available to CW workers. On the other hand, the availability of SUD resources was increased when CW agencies had a memorandum of understanding, co-location of staff, and more intense collaboration with drug and alcohol service (DAS) providers. These results provide evidence to support efforts to improve collaboration between CW and DAS providers and showcase specific collaboration strategies to implement in order to improve service delivery.