Family Planning and Child Welfare Response

["Rick Barth" <rbarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In reply to an earlier question about resources to address family
planning issues
that arise in child welfare services work, I am finally getting out this
response. Please
forgive the delay.

A few years ago, the National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource
Center at
U.C. Berkeley's School of Social Welfare explored best practice in
discussing family planning with chemically dependent women who were
involved with the child welfare system.  One issue of the Center's
newsletter was devoted to this topic.  Reprints of articles from that
issue
can be found by logging on to their website
(http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~aiarc), looking under the Newsletter
category, clicking on Article Archives (1992-1998), and referring to
Articles 40-44.  

In addition, they also produced a 25-minute (1997) VHS training video
and
guide which features a round table discussion among social workers about
this topic and "how-to" vignettes between social workers and clients. 
The
training guide offers training plans and agendas, exercises and
activities,
and handouts.  For more information about this tool, contact
aia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.


Richard P. Barth, Ph.D.
Frank A Daniels Professor and
Chair of the Doctoral Program
School of Social Work
301 Pittsboro Rd
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3550
(v) 919 962 6516
(f)        962 1486