CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
The purposes of these competitive grants are to provide, through interagency collaboration and integration of programs and services, services and
activities that are designed to increase the well-being of, improve permanency outcomes for, and enhance the safety of children who are in an out-
of-home placement or are at risk of being placed in an out-of-home placement as a result of a parent’s or caretaker’s methamphetamine or other
substance abuse.
INPUTS
Underlying
Conditions:
Children of substance
abusing parents are more
likely to experience abuse
and neglect than children
in non-substance abusing
households. Scarce
resources, lack of
coordination among
service systems, and an
inability of many
residential programs to
accommodate children
make it difficult to address
the needs of families.
These children are more
likely to be placed in
foster care and are more
likely to remain there
longer than maltreated
children from other
families.
Target Population:
Children who are in, or
at-risk, for an out-of-
home placement due to
methamphetamine or
other substance abuse by
a parent/caretaker.
Resources:
Federal grants;
State matching
requirement;
SAMHSA substance
abuse grants.
ACTIVITIES
SERVICES
Link child welfare families
to treatment services and
coordinate case
management
Prioritize comprehensive
treatment services for the
entire family (residential or
intensive out-patient)
Provide child/adolescent
services addressing
caretaker drug addiction
(Crisis intervention,
developmental assessment
and services, newborn
services, mental health
services and counseling,
early prevention/
intervention)
Provide parent services
(parenting classes, recovery
support, family counseling,
and ancillary services)
CAPACITY BUILDING
Training for all partners
on child welfare and
substance abuse issues
Improve cross-system
Information Systems
Support court capacity to
monitor cases
Support inter-agency
collaboration
Individualized services
for this population
SHORT-TERM & LONG-TERM
OUTPUTS INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES OUTCOMES (GOALS)
SERVICES Child/Youth Outcomes SAFETY
¾ Number of parents ¾ Increase in the number of children’s ¾ Children are protected from
screened and/or assessed needs assessed & connected to services abuse and neglect.
¾ Number of referrals for ¾ Increase in the number of newborns & o Reduced recurrence of
treatment services children with prenatal exposure maltreatment (CFSR)
identified o Reduce the incidence of
¾ Number of families
maltreatment in foster care due
receiving: to drug use (New)
o drug treatment services Adult Outcomes
o ancillary services ¾ Increase in the number of families’
PERMANENCY
o recovery support needs assessed & connected to services
¾ Increase in the treatment retention rate ¾ Children have permanency
services and stability in their living
o parenting classes ¾ Increase in the number of adults
successfully completing drug treatment situations.
o coordinated case o Length of time to reunification
management/planning and meeting their case plan goals (CFSR)
¾ Number of foster parents ¾ Increase in the number of foster parents o Number of foster care
trained trained on issues relating to children of placements (CFSR)
¾ Number of newborns parents with a substance problem o Re-entry into foster care
(CFSR)
exposed to drugs receiving
Family/Relationship o First entries into foster care
services (CFSR)
¾ Number of children ¾ Decrease in risk factors associated with
receiving: reasons for service.
o Drug use or dependence WELL-BEING
o developmental services ¾ Families have enhanced
o mental health and o Manufacturing or selling of drugs
¾ Increase in protective factors to prevent capacity to provide for their
counseling services children’s needs.
o early intervention and abuse or neglect by parents and
o Reduced TANF enrollment
prevention services caregivers related to: o Parent enrollment in an
o crisis intervention o bonding and attachment educational program
o parental resilience o Parent employed full-time
CAPACITY BUILDING o knowledge of parenting and child o Decreases in parental stress
development o Children in adequate child care
¾ Develop an inter-agency
o social connections arrangements
structure
o concrete support in times of need ¾ Children’s educational,
¾ Identify & assess region’s
physical and mental health
needs
Regional Partnership Service Capacity Level needs are met.
¾ Develop shared goals,
¾ Increase in the availability of o Declines in problem behaviors
vision, & mission ¾ Children have opportunities
appropriate individualized programs in
¾ Develop policies & for healthy social and
the region.
procedures for emotional development.
o Adult service capacity
communication among
o Child-oriented programs
agencies regarding service SERVICE CAPACITY
o Family-centered services
delivery and case planning ¾ Regions have a new or
¾ Increase in the number of families
¾ Develop a process for data increased ability to address
receiving treatment together
& information sharing
¾ Increase in the number of staff parental/caretaker substance
¾ Hold human resources abuse and its affect on
competent on partners’ policies
trainings
¾ Increase in coordinated case children. (New)
¾ Develop an evaluation
management and planning across
system
agencies.