This is an intensive child protection program to monitor families with substance use problems and a history of child maltreatment.
The intervention seeks:
1) To ensure the child’s safety;
2) To keep children at home with their parents whenever safe and possible;
3) Permanence of the child preferably with one or both parents, or, if this is not possible, with a family member;
4) Parents’ sobriety in time to meet program requirements;
5) To improve parents’ ability to care for their children and perform essential life tasks;
6) To reduce abuse and maltreatment;
7) To improve the quality of medical care for children and adults with substance use;
8) To improve collaboration between child care providers and mental health treatment services.