Through their trauma-informed model, Hushabye Nursery cares for newborns withdrawing from addictive substances they were exposed to in the womb.
from 2017 to 2021; Black and Indigenous children had the highest case rates in 2021, according to the state Department of Health Services.Arizona reported
“And so I think from our perspective, is coming at it from a trauma-informed lens but also just a pro-social and biologically driven lens.” “We didn’t really grasp that opiate use disorder is not a moral failure, not a choice, but a chronic illness — a brain disease,” Sundem said. “That these families are just like you and I, and they don’t want to be unwell.”
“If we remove a baby and place them in foster care, we’ve set them up for chronic illness, which means we’re just going to continue with this generational trauma. So we need to meet these families prenatally to get them well.”in West Virginia, which offers a dedicated facility for NAS newborns. Soon after, she began forming support groups for expectant families.
Before working at Hushabye, Fant went through the program in 2019 with his newborn son, Jude. Fant met Sundem at a methadone clinic, soon after he found out he and his girlfriend were expecting. He had struggled with addiction for 10 years at that point and was determined to finally get sober. Guffey stressed that the goal of the Department of Child Safety is not to separate families. Caseworkers also aim to connect parents to services and are seeking federal funding for preventative programming that could help reduce such cases.
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