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Location:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Type of Organization:
Nonprofit |
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Incarnation Family Connections |
Agency Description: The Wayside House, Inc. is a
local chemical health organization dedicated to
providing treatment for chemical abuse exclusively to
women. They have over 55 years of experience providing
services to women with chemical and mental health needs
especially those in poverty. The organization provides
an array of services from treatment to recovery
maintenance and owns housing units which provide
recovering and recently sober women and their families
an opportunity to live in a safe, healthy environment.
Project Description: The Incarnation Family
Connections (IFC) treatment program is one of the
programs implemented at The Wayside House. The IFC
program is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services Children’s Bureau as a demonstration
grant to provide comprehensive family treatment for
chemically dependent mothers and their children. The
overarching goal of the grant is to improve children’s
safety, permanency, and well-being by treating the
mother’s chemical dependency in a safe, residential
environment. This approach is unique because it provides
an alternative to out-of-home placement (“foster care”)
for children. While in the IFC program mothers and/or
pregnant women receive comprehensive services for their
substance abuse and their children receive early
intervention services, such as speech or language
remediation, and for any developmental delays.
ACET services: ACET staff assisted IFC in the
identification of appropriate tools to assess the family
and screen dependent children at both pre- and
post-treatment and collaborated with IFC to develop
focus group and interview scripts for both IFC mothers,
staff and community stakeholders. ACET also designed a
rigorous evaluation plan using a quasi-experimental
design and a comparison group to determine the impact of
the IFC program on both mothers and their dependent
children. ACET staff continues to provide TA to IFC
staff in the implementation of the evaluation plan. In
particular, ACET assists with modifying the IFC database
to accommodate new data fields, tracking completion of
assessments by all family members, and evaluation
capacity building among IFC staff and their
collaborative partners. ACET will also be completing
yearly evaluation reports for IFC to share with their
collaborative partners, funder, and the national
cross-site evaluator.
Date of Service: 2009-Present |
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