In 2001, a nonprofit drug treatment provider called Bridges joined a bold new venture with the Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). It was aimed at better serving the children of parents who had come into contact with the child welfare system because of drug use or addiction.
The resulting Specialized Treatment and Recovery Services (STARS) program would sit at the center of the county’s family drug court, developed to help address Sacramento’s dismal reunification rates, fueled in part by parental drug use. The program would route treatment decisions and case management for those parents through a nonprofit staff. And that staff would mostly comprise former addicts.
[For more of this story, written by John Kelly, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...families-align/26731]
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