Addiction and Parents: Reaching Out
What can we, as foster parents, relatives, adoptive parents and professionals do?
What can we, as foster parents, relatives, adoptive parents and professionals do?
This guide is intended to help you plan for the personal and financial future of your family member with a physical, mental or developmental disability. It will cover trusts and estates, wills, government benefits and services.
Medications can help children and teens in foster care, but they can also further impair them, derail them, and sabotage them. Without a clear understanding of their mental health issues, misdiagnoses can be made and incorrect medications can be prescribed.
It can be really challenging when you’re in foster care, because there are laws and regulations that apply specifically to you. They affect who can give permission for your health care, the services and treatments you receive, and who pays for them.
Caring for Children with Special Needs is written for parents, foster parents and other caregivers raising infants, children and adolescents with HIV. This 293-page notebook is a resource manual that provides information and support for some of the day-to-day issues caregivers face.
This guidebook gives caregivers the tools they need to understand how mental illness might look in a person with a developmental disability, and information on what to do and where to go for help. It was written in order to help caregivers to partner with health care providers.
OPWDD's Guide to Understanding Supports and Services. The Guide was developed to inform families about the wide range of supports and services available to qualified individuals and to assist them in accessing those services for their loved one with a developmental disability.
Parent to Parent of New York State builds a supportive network of families to reduce isolation and empower those who care for people with developmental disabilities or special healthcare needs to navigate and influence service systems and make informed decisions.
This manual is designed to support foster care and health services staff in focusing attention on the critical issue of adequate, timely health services for children in foster care.
CDC is working to make alcohol screening and brief intervention a routine element of health care in all primary care settings. Find FASD online training and resources for healthcare professionals.