Services to Parenting Women and/or Men with Dependent Children

Services to Parenting Women and/or Men with Dependent Children (PPWMDC) A. Providers must ensure that, where appropriate, the family is treated as a unit, and both women and/or men, along with dependent children (aged five [5] and under) are admitted to treatment. Such admission may not be appropriate if, for example, the provider does not offer services to a particular gender, or a parent is not in need of SUD treatment and is able to adequately care for the child/children. B. PPWMDC providers must ensure the provision of or make arrangements for the following minimum array of services for women and/or men with dependent children and women and/or men who are attempting to regain custody of their children. Providers are also responsible for including the following services: 1. Provide primary pediatric care for their children including immunizations. 2. Provide separate gender specific substance abuse treatment and other therapeutic interventions for women and men which may address issues of relationships, sexual and physical abuse, parenting, and childcare while the women or men are receiving these services. 3. Offer family focused programs to support family strengthening and reunification (i.e., parenting education, partner counseling and interventions, social and recreational activities, and alcohol and drug use education and referral services for SUD treatment for family members). 4. Provide childcare while the women/men are receiving services. 5. Provide children, accompanied by their mother or father in treatment, access to therapeutic interventions. 6. Provide sufficient case management and transportation to ensure those women/men and their children have access to the services listed above. 7. Develop a discharge plan that includes a comprehensive roadmap for any community- based services that both the mother/father and their children will need upon completion of the residential program.