Nationally, about 12% of children live with a parent who abuses alcohol or other drugs, and about 80% of parents in the child welfare system have substance use disorder.
Margaret Lloyd Sieger is an Assistant Professor in the UConn School of Social Work who teaches courses in substance use disorder, research, program evaluation, and social policy. Her professional and practice background includes clinical work with children and adolescents affected by parental addiction at the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and as a civil litigation paralegal. She now studies mothers and infants with prenatal substance exposure, child protection policies and systems, and family treatment courts.
Professor Lloyd Sieger is leading Connecticut's evaluation of the implementation of the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, known as CAPTA, which requires states to collect notifications when infants are born and found to have been exposed to certain drugs in utero.
In this episode, she talks about Connecticut's national-model data gathering system on substance abuse disorder, how to help make social workers' lives easier, and what it's like to be part of drafting a new law.
On this month's visit to Tom's History Corner, we talk about some big anniversaries for UConn, involving intra-university lawsuits, an especially momentous day in the life of Charles Lewis Beach, and the last class in University history who could truthfully say they earned their sheepskins.
UConn's Most Mysterious President (Or Was He?)
The Night They Drove Old Dairy Down
Students, Scholars, and Masters
A Look Back At the "Lady Principal" Era
A Song In Our Hearts
Getting Muddy With the Wizard of Ooze
Revolution-Era Murderers
When Irish Fashion Swept the USA
Episode 27: Yearbook? More Like Jeer-book
Episode 26: Talkin' National Flag Blues
Episode 25: Sparking JOY!
Episode 24: Extremism in Defense of Jonathan is No Vice
Episode 23: Oiled Up for 2019
Episode 22: Space Campus
Episode 21: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Episode 20: When Raba Daba Ruled Storrs
Episode 19: Secrets of the Homecoming Goat (LIVE)
Episode 18: Dogs and Cats, Living Together
Episode 17: A Visit From Miss Connecticut
Episode 16: Sweet Science
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