¡Celebrando Familias!

Celebrating Families! for Spanish-Speaking Families

¡Celebrando Familias! (¡CF!) was developed for mono-lingual Spanish speaking families where one or more parents suffer from substance abuse. It is based on Celebrating Families!. The entire program is provided in Spanish, with an ever-expanding list of resources for Spanish-speaking families.

¡CF! is a multi-family, strength-based, skills building program serving the whole family: children ages 3-17, their substance-abusing parents, and children’s caregivers. The program’s goal is to help the whole family recover from the disease of addiction and have an opportunity to live a safe, healthy, and happy life. Weekly sessions are organized utilizing the Healthy Living Circle that defines health as physical, social, psychological and spiritual.

THE NEED

  • The Hispanic population has a significantly higher percentage of physical problems related to alcohol.
  • The rate of placement for Hispanic children in foster care due to abuse or neglect is 4/1000 – significantly higher than for Whites or Asian/Pacific Islanders.
  • The Hispanic population is more at risk for addiction as adults, as the age of initiation and continued use are highly associated with the development of dependency in adulthood:
    • In 8th grade, Hispanic students have higher drinking rates than Whites; the highest rate of occasions of heavy drinking; and the highest use rates of marijuana, crack, cocaine powder, heroin, and tranquilizers.
    • In the 12th grade Hispanics have the highest lifetime, annual, and 30-day prevalence-of-use rates for inhalants, cocaine, heroin, crack, and crystal methamphetamine (ice) and the highest lifetime and annual rates for heroin with a needle.
  • Nationally, 51 percent of Hispanic children have experienced at least one Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE), compared with 40 percent of white, non-Hispanic children and 23 percent of Asian non-Hispanic children.​
  • The most common ACEs for all races/ethnicities are economic hardship, divorce and separation of parent or guardian. For Hispanic children, the next-most common are living with an adult with a substance use problem and parental incarceration.​
  • Even though Hispanics have high rates of abstinence from alcohol, Hispanics who choose to drink are more likely to consume higher volumes of alcohol than non-Hispanic whites.
  • The response to the Covid-19 pandemic may be amplifying some ACEs. The pandemic and its response has disproportionately affected low-income and ethnic minority populations, already at increased risk for ACE-impacted chronic conditions.

¡Celebrando Familias!: Celebrating Families! For Hispanic/Latino Families

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