(a) The office may provide or contract for training regarding alcohol and other drug dependency to providers of health, social, educational, and support services to women of childbearing age and their children.
(b) The purpose of any training provided pursuant to subdivision (a) may be to facilitate the taking of appropriate and thorough medical and social histories of women of childbearing age in order to identify those in special need of alcohol or other drug treatment services and to identify skills for providing case management services to alcohol and other drug using women and their infants. Additional training topics may be covered, including, but not limited to, how to develop procedures for referring those in need of alcohol and other drug treatment services and how to provide appropriate social and emotional support to, as well as developmental monitoring of, drug affected infants and children and their families.
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 862, Sec. 14. Effective January 1, 2005.)