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DASA PPW Article
Pregnant and Parenting Women (PPW)
with Chemical Dependency Issues
What does DASA offer?
- Chemical dependency treatment for women that includes the families, especially the babies and toddlers.
- Intervention on a pregnant chemically dependent woman, which may prevent a drug or alcohol exposed baby.
- Intervention on a chemically dependent woman may prevent an unintended pregnancy, which could lead to a baby that is drug or alcohol exposed.
- Priority access into outpatient and residential chemical dependency treatment services.
- Resources regarding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
PPW Residential Chemical Dependency Programs
10 sites statewide, for a total of 150 beds
- Chemical dependency treatment services for pregnant, postpartum, and parenting women.
- Addresses the issues specific to women in relation to chemical dependency and their children.
- Service provision and length of stay is variable and is determined by the needs of the woman.
- Maximum length of stay is six months.
Therapeutic Childcare
Available in 9 of the PPW Residential Chemical Dependency Programs (130 slots)
- Developmental assessment
- Play therapy
- Behavioral modification
- Individual counseling
- Self esteem building
- Family intervention to modify parenting behavior and/or the child's environment to eliminate/prevent the child's dysfunctional behavior
- Parent education and parenting plan
Chemical Using Pregnant (CUP) Detoxification
- DSHS funded inpatient hospital program for acute detoxification and medical stabilization of pregnant chemically dependent women and their fetus.
- Provides both medical and drug/alcohol treatment services at pre-approved hospitals statewide.
- Available at:
Grays Harbor Community Hospital/Aberdeen (360-533-8500)
Swedish Medical Center/Ballard (206-781-6350)
Providence Medical Center/Everett (425-258-7390)
Valley General Hospital/Monroe (360-794-1405)
St. Peter Hospital/Lacey (360-456-7575)
Outpatient Chemical Dependency Treatment Services, many agencies provide specific services to meet the needs of PPW, that may include on-site or off-site childcare.
PPW Housing Support Services Programs
11 sites statewide, for a total of 149 support services slots
- Up to 18 months of housing support services for women who are pregnant, postpartum or parenting and for their children who reside in drug and alcohol free residences.
- These services are classified as support services, rather than treatment services.
Crisis Nurseries (Yakima and King Counties)
- Crisis nursery services to children of parents with chemical dependency issues.
- Care for children birth through six years of age, while their parents participate in chemical dependency services.
- Includes both day childcare and respite care.
Parent Child Assistance Program (PCAP)
King, Pierce, Yakima, Cowlitz, Spokane, Skagit, and Grant Counties
- 90 slots at each site, for a tot Color al of 540 statewide (Spokane and Grant are combined for 90 slots).
- For the highest risk women who abuse alcohol and/or drugs during pregnancy.
- These women are not typically successful or effectively engaged with other community service providers.
- Paraprofessional advocacy services for up to the target child's third birthday.
- Identification and prioritization of realistic goals, steps to meet goals, and evaluation of progress towards goals.
- Referral to chemical dependency treatment, recovery, and follow-up, to include residential and outpatient treatment.
- Support for utilization of local resources.
- Provision of funds for food, unmet health needs, other necessities, and incentives as needed.
Safe Babies Safe Moms
- Snohomish, Benton-Franklin, and Whatcom Counties
- 270 slots statewide
- For the highest risk women who abuse alcohol and/or drugs during pregnancy.
- Comprehensive program that includes:
- PPW Residential and Outpatient Chemical Dependency Treatment
- PPW Housing Support Services
- Targeted Intensive Case Management (TICM) up to three years.
- Intensive case management and behavior rehabilitative services for pregnant and parenting alcohol and drug abusing women.
- For women who have a history of multiple system involvement and need services of longer duration and greater intensity than women enrolled in or served by other resources.
- Children of these women may suffer from developmental disabilities and behavioral/emotional disorders that prevent them from functioning normally in their home, communities, and other settings.
Parent Trust
- Family support groups for families recovering from chemical dependency.
- Using a family support philosophy and creating community networks with family support agencies in participating communities.
- Develop and maintain Families in Recovery groups, which provide family support and skills development with specific focus on the parenting and family issues of recovering families.
- Available in most of the PPW residential chemical dependency treatment programs.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Diagnostic and Prevention Network (FASDPN)
- Community and Professional Training - University of Washington
- Regional Network Site Training (Spokane, Yakima, Pullman, and Everett)
- Trainings include:
- Fetal alcohol related diagnosis;
- The roles in providing complex intervention needs for individuals diagnosed with fetal alcohol related issues;
- How to identify birth mothers of children diagnosed with prenatal alcohol damage and assist them in avoiding subsequent fetal alcohol exposed births by referral to existing alcohol treatment and/or family planning programs.
Iceberg Newsletter
Iceberg is a quarterly international educational newsletter on FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders) published by the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Information Services (FASIS), a parent/professional partnership.
"Because the problems we readily see are only the tip of the iceberg."
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Family Resource Institute (FAS*FRI)
- This service provides the citizens of the State of Washington a service dedicated to improving the lives of children and families impacted by fetal alcohol exposure.
- This service is provided from the viewpoint of parents who have been directly affected by fetal alcohol exposure, whether they are birth, adoptive, foster, grand, or step parents.
- Training
- Advocates
- Information and resources
1-800-999-3429
- Newsletter publisher (quarterly)
FAS Times
- Assists with FASD conference planning
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Interagency Workgroup (FASIAWG)
- Established by the Legislature in 1995
- Legislatively mandated state agencies that attend:
- DSHS (DASA, CA, MAA, JRA, DDD, MHD)
- DOC
- OSPI
- DOH
- The state agencies listed above executed an interagency agreement to ensure the coordination of identification, prevention, and intervention programs for children who have fetal alcohol exposure, and for women who are at high risk of having children with fetal alcohol exposure.
- A process for community advocacy groups to participate in the review and development of identification, prevention, and intervention programs administered or contracted for by the agencies executing the agreement.
How to Access Services
Additional Information
Sue Green
Family Services Manager
Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse
360-725-3732
greensr@dshs.wa.gov
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