Sec. 3313. Protecting children with addicted parents
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Part D of title V of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290dd et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary and in cooperation with the Commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, shall collect and disseminate best practices for States regarding interventions and strategies to keep families affected by a substance use disorder together, when it can be done safely. Such best practices shall— utilize comprehensive family-centered approaches; ensure that families have access to drug screening, substance use disorder treatment, medication-assisted treatment approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and parental support; and build upon lessons learned from— programs such as the maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting program under section 511 of the Social Security Act; and identifying substance abuse prevention and treatment services that meet the requirements for promising, supported, or well-supported practices specified in section 471(e)(4)(C) of the Social Security Act (as such section shall be in effect beginning on October 1, 2018).
The Secretary shall award grants to States, units of local government, and tribal governments to— develop programs and models designed to keep pregnant and post-partum women who have a substance use disorder together with their newborns, including programs and models that provide for screenings of pregnant and post-partum women for substance use disorders, treatment interventions, supportive housing, nonpharmacological interventions for children born with neonatal abstinence syndrome, medication assisted treatment, and other recovery supports; and support the attendance of children who have a family member living with a substance use disorder at therapeutic camps or other therapeutic programs aimed at addiction prevention education and delaying the onset of first use, providing trusted mentors and education on coping strategies that these children can use in their daily lives, and family support initiatives aimed at keeping these families together. .
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