Pregnant and parenting women are enrolled in Parent-Child Assistance Program (PCAP) for 3 years. PCAP forms partnerships with and between clients and families and community service providers.
• PCAP provides clients outreach and engagement, structured goal setting, problem-solving, practical assistance, and consistent coaching.
• PCAP seeks to help community service providers understand how to wor
k more effectively with this population and works to ensure that clients and families receive needed services
The goals of PCAP are to help mothers with substance use disorders to:
• build and maintain healthy, independent, alcohol/drug-free lives
• prevent future births of alcohol- and drug- exposed children
After 3 years of work with a PCAP case manager:
• 92% of clients had completed alcohol/drug treatment programs
• 76% were abstinent from alcohol/ drugs for > 6 months during the program
• 68% were using family planning methods on a regular basis
• 80% of children were living with their own families
• 68% were in permanent, stable housing
