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EYES INC—CCEP Yearly Report for 2019-2020 — Version 0.3 June 22, 2020
Other barriers to treatment include: low academic and vocational skills, scattered legal employment, and criminal justice involvement. According to the NSDUG, over 28% of women of child-bearing age (18-49) with unmet treatment needs did not attend treatment due to social stigma. (NSDUH, 2005 & 2006). Fourteen states consider substance use during pregnancy to be child abuse under civil child-welfare statutes, and 9 states require health care professionals to report suspected prenatal substance abuse (Figdor & Kaeser, 2005). Females often are referred to substance abuse treatment through child protective services as a requirement for retaining or regaining custody of children, as is the case with most Odyssey House Family Center clients (Clark, 2001 & OH, 2008).
This project will expand our capacity to engage and retain these vulnerable women in treatment, strengthen their overall functioning, and reduce perinatal and environmentally related effects of maternal and/or paternal drug abuse on infants and children, by providing an integrated package of: substance abuse, mental health, FASD screening, risk-reduction counseling services; SUD and COD assessment, coupled with motivational intervention and linkage to care; case management services, including processing for health insurance as needed; and trauma-centered interventions. Further, clients will have access to vocational training, work-readiness training, GED classes, and job placement services through Isaiah House and its partners.
5 Goals and Objectives of the Intervention
The purpose of the CCEP program is to expand and enhance our current continuum of care to provide culturally-relevant, evidence-based substance abuse, co-occurring substance abuse/mental health/trauma treatment, and recovery support to 250 low-income pregnant and postpartum women, and their minor children, who have limited access to quality health services in Essex County, New Jersey, over the course of five years.
All CCEP activities are governed by the following goals and objectives:
5.1 Goal 1: Increase safe and healthy pregnancies and improve birth outcomes.
5.1.1 Objective 1: Link CCEP participants to medical, dental, necessary hospital, and other health care services, including obstetrics, gynecology, diabetes, hypertension, and prenatal care.
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