New COSSAP Learning Opportunity - Register Today! No images? Click here Introduction to Drug-Endangered Children Awareness: Identifying Drug-Endangered Children - A Collaborative ApproachBureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) leadership, in collaboration with the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP) team and the National Criminal Justice Training Center at Fox Valley Technical College (NCJTC), invites you to this no-cost webinar on July 23, 2020, at 2:00 p.m., ET. About the WebinarIgnored, abused, and abandoned – these are some of the chronic conditions experienced by children raised in environments where there is substance abuse or illegal drug use, manufacturing, cultivation and distribution. Drug-endangered children (DEC) are part of a very large and growing population of children whose lives have been seriously and negatively impacted by dangerous drugs. During this webinar, you will be provided introductory information on identifying and supporting children impacted by parental or caregiver substance abuse. Discuss how the DEC approach assists in overcoming the challenges in aligning the agencies and systems responsible for preventing, intervening in, and treating these issues to change the trajectories of the lives of drug-endangered children and break multi-generational cycles of abuse and neglect. Upon completion of this webinar, you will be able to:
PresentersEric Nation, Director of Training, National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children Stacee Read, Director of DEC Network Development, National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children BJA’s COSSAP is a collaborative effort that includes the training and technical assistance teams from Advocates for Human Potential, Inc.; Altarum Institute; the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Training and Technical Assistance Center; the Institute for Intergovernmental Research; RTI International; the National Criminal Justice Training Center at Fox Valley Technical College; and the Center for Health and Justice at Treatment Alternatives to Safer Communities. This project was supported by Grant No. 2017-AR-BX-K003 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART). Points of view or opinions are those of the presenters and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. |