This training will help participants understand who drug endangered children are along with the risks and long-term impacts associated with parental and caregiver substance misuse and drug activity. Trainers will discuss the importance of and opportunities for early identification and intervention and the need for multidisciplinary collaborative efforts to identify and help these children. Trainers will provide examples that all disciplines can relate to and activities to assist in understanding this challenging topic. Trainers will help attendees understand the opportunities to change the trajectories of the lives of drug-endangered children and break multigenerational cycles.

Learners will:

• Understand the risks and long-term impacts associated with parental and caregiver substance misuse and drug activity.
• Understand the many opportunities to identify drug endangered children and the benefits of early intervention.
• Learn what multidisciplinary collaborative efforts look like and how they incorporate the unique and often limited resources within a community and apply them in a manner that provides better care for drug-endangered children.

Who should attend: Staff of Family Resource Centers and Child Abuse Prevention Councils, Child Welfare, Law Enforcement, District Attorney’s, Judges, Probation/Parole, Service Providers, Education, Fire, EMS, and other first responders, who have a job which impacts children and families.