Integrating gender and children’s rights in services for families affected by drug use - Practical guide #934925

A practical tool with strong theoretical, evidence-based, legal grounds that can, at the same time, be adapted to each stakeholder’s needs, interests and possibilities.
After an initial publication on children whose parents use drugs in 2022, the Pompidou Group has continued research on this topic as part of an ongoing effort to give visibility to these children and to develop proposals for creating or strengthening services that both protect children and support families. It also intertwines with the effort of the Pompidou Group to integrate a gender dimension into drug and addiction policies.
This practical guide brings together the wealth of knowledge accumulated since the beginning of the project and sets out 108 concrete recommendations for member states, public institutions and nongovernmental organisations that work with children and parents affected by substance dependence.
The Children and families affected by parental drug use series comprises five volumes: