¡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.

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¡Celebrando Familias!

THE NEED

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