Thursday, May 2, 2024
5/2/2024
The Native American Connections Pregnant & Post-Partum Women's (NAC PPW) Project will enhance and expand the delivery of culturally adaptive comprehensive residential treatment services and intensive case management treatment for low-income pregnant and post-partum women and their dependent children, with an emphasis on those who are homeless and/or Native American. Support services for family members and kinship, which are fully integrated with Native American traditional healing and wellness practices, are critical to the wellness of the mother and children and will also be available. The NAC PPW will provide up to 90 days of evidence based residential treatment services, co-occurring behavioral health and substance abuse treatment services, trauma informed treatment services, recovery support services, permanent supported housing, educational and job skills training and placement, family reunification services, childcare and treatment services, and traditional healing practices. The NAC PPW will strongly emphasize the Circle of Strength program, which is designed to foster improved family cohesion and stability through integrated family counseling sessions that addresses interfamilial conflict, communication challenges and issues unique to the recovering family. Our Guiding Star Level II Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Program will be the primary service location, with other services and supports provided through our community partners within Maricopa County, Arizona. In 2016, the services that had been provided at Guiding Star will be transitioned to the new Virginia Wellness Center, a comprehensive wellness campus currently under development. Designed by researchers affiliated with ASU and approved through an Institutional Review Board, the Center will be located next to a new NAC housing community. The NAC PPW Project will provide services to 314 individuals (110 pregnant or postpartum women, 204 dependent children) as well as 175 members.
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