The At the Intersection of Domestic Violence and Substance Use: A Toolkit for Hope, Healing and Advocacy for Family Justice Centers, is one of a series of resources developed to support the provision of more holistic, hope-centered, and trauma-informed substance use advocacy and services in Family Justice Centers.
Substance use and confidentiality
Mandated reporting requirements
Trauma-informed approaches to mandated reporting
The relationship between domestic violence, sexual assault, trauma, mental health, and substance use (including substance use coercion)
Trauma-informed and anti-stigma framework for contextualizing substance use (and related behaviors) for survivors of domestic violence and/or sexual assault.
Why might survivors use substances?
Patterns and dynamics of substance us
Women and substance use
Commonly used substances and their effects
This handbook was originally written to help mental health professionals understand the Child Abuse Reporting Law and their reporting responsibilities, and to identify and address…
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