Breaking the Cycle: Intervening with Substance-Involved Mothers and their Infants and Young Children
Recognized by the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime as a best practice program (2004)
Presentation Tuesday December 12, 2006 by
MOTHERCRAFT
MARGARET LESLIE, Dip.C.S., C.Psych.Assoc
Director, Early Intervention Programs
and
MARY MOTZ, Ph.D., C.Psych.
Manager, Clinical Services
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Section 1 - Program History (36 mins, 24 secs)
Presented by Margaret Leslie
Section 2 - Stages of Change (6 mins, 27 secs)
Presented by Margaret Leslie
Section 3 - Program Evaluation (21 mins, 48 secs)
Presented by Mary Motz
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will increase their knowledge of the efficacy of a comprehensive, integrated model of service for substance-involved mothers and their young children.
- Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the context of women’s substance misuse, and the impacts on parenting and the maternal-child relationship.
- Participants will receive an overview of key treatment strategies and approaches, including: motivational interviewing and stages of change framework.
The documents here which were used in this presentation are provided courtesy of Breaking the Cycle/ Mothercraft. For further information on the Breaking the Cycle program and services please visit Breaking the Cycle website.
Please click on the items below to download electronic copies of the presentation materials.
Breaking the Cycle Powerpoint slides (PDF File) used in this presentation
The Susan Story (PDF File) Also published in IMPrint, Newsletter of the Infant Mental Health Promotion Project (IMP), Volume 39, Spring 2004, p. 3
Breaking the Cycle: Measures of Progress 1995-2005, Report Summary
Electronic copies of the full Evaluation Report - “Breaking the Cycle: Measures of Progress (1995-2005)” can be found here on the Motherisk website or to obtain a hard copy of the report, please e-mail Margaret Leslie at: mleslie@mothercraft.org
The manual referenced in the presentation entitled "The SMART Guide: Motivational Approaches Within the Stages of Change for Pregnant Women Who Use Alcohol - A Training Manual for Service Providers" can be ordered by contacting:
Action on Women's Addictions - Research and Education (AWARE)
For details, e-mail: aware@kos.net
PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES
Margaret Leslie Dip.C.S., C.Psych.Assoc., is Director of Early Intervention Programs at Mothercraft and Breaking the Cycle. Her clinical experience over the past 20 years has been in the areas of prevention and early intervention services for families and young children living in conditions of risk. Her expertise is in the areas of infant and child assessment, infant mental health, and parent-infant therapy. She was instrumental in the development and implementation of the Breaking the Cycle program, which was recognized in 2004 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as a best practice program serving pregnant and parenting women with substance use problems, and their young children.
Ms. Leslie is the co-chair of the Community Advisory Panel of the Toronto Drug Treatment Court. She is a member of the Advisory Committee for the FASD Information Service of the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, has co-authored numerous national resources and publications on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of FAS International. She is a member of the Steering Committee and Education Committee of the Infant Mental Health Promotion Project of Toronto. Ms. Leslie is the recipient of the 2006 National Harm Reduction Award for Excellence in Mental Health and Substance Use Programming.
Dr. Mary Motz Ph.D. is the Manager of Clinical Services at Mothercraft. Her clinical experience has been in the area of assessment and treatment of children with behavioural and socio-emotional difficulties, and in early intervention services for families and young children living in conditions of risk. She is the Psychologist on the FASD Diagnostic teams at Breaking the Cycle and at the Anishnawbe Health Centre. Dr. Motz has worked as a member of the team that evaluated the Breaking the Cycle program in two reports written for Health Canada, and she is the primary investigator for the most recent evaluation. Dr. Motz’s dissertation research examined mother-child separations in children who had been prenatally exposed to substances using a cumulative risk model.