Listed below (alphabetically) are links to agencies and programs that promote strategies that support healthy lifestyles. The programs listed below target a broad audience, including individuals and families affected by misuse of alcohol and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
- Division of Alcohol & Substance Abuse (DASA).
DASA is a state Agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (DSHS). DASA promotes strategies that support health lifestyles by preventing the misuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, and support recovery from the disease of chemical dependency. This is achieved through prevention, research, training, and treatment. DASA has voluntarily served as the program chair of the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Interagency Workgroup (FASIAWG) since it's inception in 1995, to ensure continued development and implementation of FASD services statewide.
- First Steps Program, Department of Social and Health Services.
The goal of the First Steps Program, authorized by the maternity Care Access Act of 1989, is to provide "maternity care necessary to ensure health birth outcomes for low-income families." The legislation called for removal of unnecessary barriers to receiving prenatal care and provided for increased access to care and expanded Medicaid services for low-income pregnant women. First Steps is administered through the Medical Assistance Administration in the Department of Social and Health Services.
- Maternal and Child Health Programs, Department of Health.
The Maternal and Child Health Program, within the Department of Health, includes Maternal and Infant Health (that focuses on preventative and primary care for pregnant women, mothers, and infants); Child and Adolescent Health and CHILD Profile (that focus on health concerns that affect youth from birth to 6 years of age); and Children with Special Health Care Needs Program (that serves children who have serious physical, behavioral, or emotional conditions that require health and services beyond those required by children generally).
- Parent Child Assistance Program (PCAP) Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit.
PCAP is a model of intensive, long-term, paraprofessional advocacy with high-risk mothers who abuse alcohol or drugs heavily during pregnancy and are estranged from community service providers. The primary goal of PCAP is to prevent alcohol and drug exposure among the future children of these mothers. PCAP was established in 1991 and is a program within the Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit at the University of Washington.
- Safe Babies, Safe Moms, Department of Social and Health Services.
Safe Babies, Safe Moms (formerly the Comprehensive Program Evaluation Project or CPEP) seeks to improve the health and welfare of substance abusing mothers and their young children. The project attempts to improve long-term outcomes for the families and represents an investment in their future. The comprehensive services offered to substance abusing mothers who are prenatal and/or parenting children under age 2 years include: Targeted Intensive Case Management (TICM), Residential/Outpatient Chemical Dependency (CD) Treatment, Housing Support Services for Transitional Housing, Parenting Education, and Child Development Assessments and Referrals.
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