COPS/National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children: Drug Endangered Children Roadmap and Toolkit to Local Alliance Building - Awareness, Implementation, and Institutionalization: This roadmap and toolkit are designed to consolidate all the information needed to form a drug endangered children (DEC) alliance and provide resources (including samples from existing alliances) to help the formation proceed efficiently. This guide is broken down into the three stages of developing a roadmap and toolkit: (1) awareness, (2) implementation, and (3) institutionalization. A DEC alliance connects local practitioners from many disciplines together to provide a mechanism for sustaining cross-disciplinary and interagency collaboration and facilitate ongoing changes in policies and practices. To help practitioners create awareness, the first section of this publication focuses on the steps practitioners can take to spread awareness among their colleagues, across other professions, and throughout the community. The second stage is taking action. This is done by sharing a common vision, ongoing collaboration, and ongoing change. To help practitioners implement actions to help drug endangered children, the second section of this publication focuses on the steps practitioners can take to collaborate with other disciplines and improve their methods, identification, and response to drug endangered children. The third stage in creating a DEC alliance is institutionalizing efforts and the alliance which allows the work to continue for many years as well as establish a platform for when new issues or concerns arise. This toolkit provides clear steps for action for all three stages to forming a DEC alliance: Awareness, Implementation, and Institutionalization. Each action step is supported by resources including links to best practices/established DEC models, links to National DECs brochure and resources, training videos (Core Drug-Endangered Children Video Training Part 1- VI), and assessment tools for community engagement. Links to tools other DECs have designed are also available.
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