Parent-Child Assistance Program: Intervention with High-Risk Alcohol and Drug Abusing Mothers

The Parent-Child Assistance Program (PCAP) is an evidence-based home visitation case-management model for mothers who abuse alcohol or drugs during pregnancy. Its goals are to help mothers build healthy families and prevent future births of children exposed prenatally to alcohol and drugs.

PCAP’s primary aims are:

• to assist substance-abusing pregnant and parenting mothers in
  obtaining alcohol and drug treatment, staying in recovery, and resolving
  myriad complex problems related to their substance abuse;
• to assure that the children are in safe, stable home environments and receiving appropriate health care;
• to link mothers to community resources that will help them build and maintain healthy, independent family lives;
• to prevent the future births of alcohol and drug-affected children.