Community Alternatives Incorporated

North carolina programs:(1) c.a.s.c.a.d.e. Services - community atlernatives, inc. (doing business as community choices, inc. In north carolina) operates the c.a.s.c.a.d.e. Program in charlotte, north carolina. C.a.s.c.a.d.e. Provides services for women who are pregnant and/or parenting. C.a.s.c.a.d.e. Is an acronym for courage and support for changing attitudes, dependencies and environments. C.a.s.c.a.d.e. Is a holistic, gender-specific substance abuse treatment program for pregnant, postpartum and parenting adult women and their children. The purpose of c.a.s.c.a.d.e. Is to support women of childbearing age and their children by interrupting the cycle of addiction, decreasing the morbidity and mortality that is related to substance misuse, increasing positive birth outcomes, decreasing the cost of health care, and promoting well families through healthy lifestyles.c.a.s.c.a.d.e.'s vision is to ensure that women of childbearing age, who are at-risk for chemical dependency, and their children, have easy access and choices from a comprehensive, humane, seamless system of services that include the needed capacity for public awareness, treatment, and aftercare which produce consumers with a positive and productive future.the characteristics of the treatment program includes an individualized plan of care that is abstinence focused, strength based, supports a 12-step philosophy and teaches the 16 steps. In support of the vision statement, the program pursues seamless access into services, healthy outcomes for mother, child and necessary life skills for independent living. Services are provided to the mother and child as a family unit.the continuum of care includes: in-home substance abuse assessment and intake, therapeutic case management, health care (prenatal, postpartum care, well baby, child, and adult care), child care, transportation, parenting classes, life skills training, residential beds (short term and long term) and supportive counseling. C.a.s.c.a.d.e. Offers a substance abuse day treatment program (three hours per day). Transportation and childcare are provided for the women in the program in order to reduce the barriers to receiving substance abuse treatment. Primary medical and pediatric care is coordinated through carolinas healthcare system or presbyterian health system. The treatment program has the capacity to serve 50 women per day. C.a.s.c.a.d.e. Services program operates 36 residential beds for women and their children up to age 11.(2) casa works - the casa works program is a special grant under the c.a.s.c.a.d.e. Services program that targets the most difficult to serve work first population, women who are substance abusers with limited job skills and employment experience. The program is designed to help work first women become economically self-sufficient through the provision of an integrated gender-specific substance abuse treatment and job readiness, training/employment program. The casa works program provides a concurrent 20-week substance abuse treatment program and a 12-month residential program designed to: 1) address substance abuse and domestic violence, 2) improve parenting skills, 3) provide a structured living environment, 4) teach job readiness skills, and 5) provide a supportive atmosphere during the early stages of employment. Transportation, meals and childcare are also provided.(3) strengthening families program - the strengthening families program (sfp) is also a special grant under the c.a.s.c.a.d.e. Services program and is one of the most powerful programs for family change in the country, because it involves not just the parents or children alone, but the whole family. The sfp is unique because it was developed specifically for children of alcohol or drug abusing parents. The program targets two age groups: 6-11 year olds and 12-15 year olds. A sit down dinner is provided at each session for the parents and their children. The parents and children are spilt into separate groups for the first hour and are taught the same skills. During the second hour, the family unit is brought back together to practice the new skills. The goal of the sfp is to reduce risk factors in both substance abuse and juvenile delinquency areas and to provide family-based and behaviorally-oriented prevention interventions in reducing the substance abuse risk status of children and adolescents living with substance abusing parent or parents.