Every year, BCCS helps make Thanksgiving week a little happier for its customers by sponsoring two events, the Thanksgiving turkey give away and the annual Customer Lunch.
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Prevention
FASD Prevention
Outreach and HIV Prevention
Project Engage
OWH WISH
Safety Counts
Safety Net Services
TASC/Drug Diversion
Team Awareness
Presentations for Prevention
Division of Family Services Liaisons
Infectious Disease Clinic
Needle Exchange
Perinatal
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention
Our FASD educational presentations provide knowledge and increased awareness on how alcohol and other drug use, abuse, and addiction, affects not only the mothers' bodies, but those of their offspring. The effects that FASD can have on an infant include physical, behavioral, mental and or other learning disabilities with life long implications.
Outreach and HIV Prevention
The Outreach program is educational intervention conducted by peer educators face-to-face with at-risk people in their neighborhoods or community gathering places. Our outreach team engages people who would otherwise not seek treatment or education and assists them in identifying and accessing needed services. BCCS provides HCV testing, HIV testing, and pregnancy screening.
Project Engage
The only-one-of-its-kind-in-the-country program is in partnership with Christiana Care and involves an on-site peer-to-peer engagement specialist at Wilmington Hospital. When a customer is treated and found to be using a controlled substance, a BCCS intervention specialist is brought in to link them to a post-hospital treatment program for drug use, mental health or case management needs.
OWH WISH
This BCCS led coalition of criminal justice, social service and public health system is conducting research to determine the health needs of the prostitute population and develop a corresponding Strategic Plan of Action and detailed Implementation Plan.
Safety Counts
In the spirit of Harm Reduction, this intervention meets people where they are, providing them with risk reduction tools and plans that are realistic and accessible while working with them to increase their readiness for treatment. Customers learn how to control other aspects of their life; benefiting themselves, their partners, their families, and their community.
Safety Net Services
Safety Net is a multi-faceted program offering substance abuse treatment and pre-treatment, and HIV/AIDS services. Specifically targeting women and ex-offenders returning to the community, the program connects customers to appropriate services, depending on their readiness to enter treatment. The program also incorporates Safety Counts risk reduction intervention, medication management, Integrated Dual Disorders treatment, and HIV testing.
TASC/Drug Diversion
First time offenders may choose to participate in this program in order to resolve a drug charge that may otherwise result in a conviction, loss of driver’s license, and a sentence or probation. A customer graduates from the program after meeting all required criteria, including attendance and participation, completion of goals, consecutive negative urinalysis reports, and avoidance of all criminal activity.
Team Awareness: Stress Management for Substance Abuse Prevention
Within the Team Awareness program, issues such as stress management, communication, [alcohol and drug abuse] risk identification, and how to gently “nudge” a troubled co-worker to seek professional help are discussed. By providing tools and methods for handling personal stress and drug abuse risk factors in a healthy, positive way, Team Awareness effectively prevents and reduces the risk for adult-onset alcohol and other drug abuse.
Need a presentation for your community on Prevention?
BCCS Prevention and Education Department will tailor any presentation to meet the needs of your community. We will provide accurate, useful information surrounding a broad range of topics, as they relate to substance use/abuse, and/or fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Please contact us for more information.
Billboard: Keep Your Edge Division of Family Services Liaisons
We have employees that work inside the Division of Family Services to assist in identifying individuals who struggle with a substance use disorder. Referrals come from DFS only. The liaisons educate DFS social workers on the impact of addiction on an individual and family; they do initial screenings of individuals and link them to treatment in an effort to reduce and prevent abuse and neglect of children.
Infectious Disease Clinic
A combination of medication delivery and symptom-monitoring care, the clinic provides comprehensive, readily available, high-quality medical services designed to achieve healthy outcomes. In partnership with Christiana Care Health System, the clinic also provides primary medical care to HIV positive customes, preventive primary medical care to those at risk of HIV, but not HIV positive, and prevention counseling.
Needle Exchange
Through coordinated outreach efforts, the Needle Exchange Program provides an unyielding harm prevention program through access to sterile syringes. The program also provides a connection to substance abuse and mental health treatment. BCCS' mobile van “meets people exactly where they are in life” and offers brief counseling, referrals, HCV, HIV, and pregnancy screening services. Click here for locations and hours.
Pregnant and Parenting Women’s Program
The Perinatal program is for women facing addiction who are either pregnant, new mothers, or mothers of young children. We offer: full case management, parenting guidance, education/job training, help with pre- and post-natal care, childcare, and housing.
Need a presentation for your community on Prevention?
BCCS Prevention and Education Department will tailor any presentation to meet the needs of your community. We will provide accurate, useful information surrounding a broad range of topics, as they relate to substance use/abuse, and/or fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Please contact Allison Steever at 302-225-9265 for more information.
Last updated October 31, 2011
