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SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT |
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Pact Program |
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Starting the week of September 16, 2002, Chicago area children whose mothers are incarcerated at the Decatur Correctional Center have been able to interact with their mothers via live video teleconferencing in a new program announced by The Women's Treatment Center (TWTC) of Chicago and the Illinois Department of Corrections' Parent and Child Together (PACT) Program.
"These families are in crisis and children whose mothers are incarcerated are at higher risk for learning difficulties," said TWTC's Executive Director Dr. Jewell Oates. "This program directly benefits these children, while providing a parenting skill to mothers so that when they are reunited with their children they can continue to create a strong learning enviroment.
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The PACT Program is part of a national family literacy program model that brings parents and children together in a select learning enviroment. The program features interactive parent-child literacy activities that strengthen the learning relationship between parents and kids by helping parents feel more empowered to be their children's primary teacher. Studies show that this kind of relationship results in improved learning for children, better literacy rates and higher high-school graduation rates.
Fifteen to twenty families are served each week at Madison Place, The Women's Treatment Center's second stage recovery home on the Near West Side of Chicago. Twenty hours of live video teleconferencing per week allow mothers to take an active, hands-on role in their children's education despite being separated by hundreds of miles. A parenting specialist is in the room with the children, helping mothers and their kids read together and providing other assistance as appropriate. The Illinois Department of Corrections' PACT Program is funded by a federal grant that provides the necessary video equipment for TWTC to implement the program.
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Detox |
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Our Detoxification Unit is medically supervised, staffed by a physician, nurses and counselors. |
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Residential Rehabilitation II serves women without children, pregnant women, TANF and DCFS clients, and HIV-positive women who need substance abuse treatment in a residential setting. |
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Pregnant and Postpartum with Infants |
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Residential Rehabilitation III is a transitional program to give support to pregnant women or mothers with newborns and young children during this stressful, high relapse period. |
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Recovery Home |
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This facility is for women with children, who have completed residential treatment and need a safe haven to live while they continue outpatient treatment. |
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Outpatient Program |
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Our outpatient program provides intensive and regular outpatient services for women who have completed residential treatment or whose treatment needs are less intensive. Women may bring their children to the on-site daycare program while they are receiving treatment. |
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