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Treating substance-using women and their children in public housing: preliminary evaluation findings
L R Metsch1, H P Wolfe, R Fewell
1Comprehensive Drug Research Center, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida, USA.
Child Welfare
|April 9, 2001
Abstract:
The Key West Housing Authority created SafePort, a residential substance abuse treatment program within public housing to provide drug treatment to parenting women. All family members-women, children, and significant others-receive comprehensive assessments to determine appropriate therapeutic interventions to resolve their problems. Preliminary evaluation findings suggest that women who participate with their children are more likely to remain drug free than are those who participated without their children.