Archways Family Recovery Project coordinates family-centered treatment, recovery, parenting, and child and family supports while expanding Family Threads through New Hampshire Family Resource Centers. - The Archways Family Recovery Project will address the effects of parental and caregiver substance use on child safety, permanency, family stability, and adult recovery throughout New Hampshire. The project will serve families with at least one child under age 18 who is in, or at documented risk of, out-of-home placement because of parental or caregiver substance use. Families may also face fragmented services, housing and transportation barriers, economic hardship, mental health concerns, social isolation, and difficulty navigating child welfare, court, treatment, recovery, and community systems. Archways will establish a statewide regional partnership and expand Family Threads through eight Family Resource Centers, adding two centers annually during Years 2 through 5. Family Threads pairs family-support and peer-recovery personnel to develop coordinated, participant-directed family-strengthening and recovery plans. Services include standardized assessment; individualized family and recovery planning; group support and parent education; peer recovery coaching and recovery-capital development; and navigation and warm handoffs to treatment, behavioral health care, housing, food, transportation, employment, child care, education, health care, and other community resources. Archways will also provide training, certification, coaching, fidelity monitoring, technical assistance, data support, and continuous quality improvement. Omni Institute will conduct an independent mixed-methods evaluation examining enrollment, engagement, service dosage, participant experience, implementation fidelity, partnership effectiveness, and barriers and facilitators. The evaluation will assess whether Family Threads improves child safety, permanency, reunification, placement stability, recovery stability, parenting capacity, protective factors, family functioning, and caregiving relationships. It will also determine whether findings can inform practice, policy, sustainability, responsible replication, and future evidence review. The regional partnership is supported by the mandatory letters of support and partnership agreements from the New Hampshire Judicial Branch, Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services, and Division for Children, Youth, and Families.
