Awareness

• Awareness Introduction Sheet/document

• Connect with National DEC

  • Ways to Connect With National DEC​

• Create and Spread Awareness of the Problem

  • National DEC Brochure​

  • About National DEC Sheet

  • What is the DEC Mission

  • State and Local DEC Alliance Awareness Examples

    • Carbon County Wyoming DEC Brochure​

    • Missouri DEC Information Card

    • Missouri DEC Brochure

    • Okaloosa County Florida DEC Brochure

    • Tennessee DEC Brochure

    • Wisconsin DEC Brochure

  • Annual DEC Awareness Day

  • What Caregivers Should Know 

• Identify Leadership, Disciplines, and Stakeholders

• Provide Awareness Training

  • Core DEC In-Person Training​

  • Core DEC Short Videos

• Initiate Community Assessment

Implementation

• Implementation Introduction Sheet

• Continue to Connect with National DEC

• Continue Awareness

  • Core DEC Awareness Training: Online​

  • Developmental Consequences of Fetal Exposure to Parental Drug Use

• Continue to Identify and Engage Leadership, Disciplines, and Stakeholders

• Provide DEC Approach Training

• Complete and Disseminate Community Assessment

• Identify, Develop, and Implement DEC Promising Practices

  • Checklists​

    • National DEC Children at Risk Evidence Sheet​

    • National DEC Contact Sheet

    • National DEC Home Checklist

    • National DEC Field Test Checklist

  • Publications

    • DEC Guide for Law Enforcement Volume 1 (Updated 2020)​

    • DEC Guide for Law Enforcement Volume 2

    • DEC Promising Practice Guide

  • Tools

    • National DEC Drug and Alcohol Use During Pregnancy Fact Sheet​

    • National DEC Making an Effective Call to the Child Welfare Reporting Hotline Sheet

    • Websites

      • Kansas State DEC Alliance

    • Social Media

      • Carbon County Alliance for Drug Endangered Children (Facebook)​

      • Cherokee/Ida County Iowa Drug Endangered Children (Facebook)

      • Tioga County Pennsylvania Alliance for Drug Endangered Children (Facebook)

    • Handle With Care

      • Carbon County, Wyoming Brochure​

      • Bristol County, Massachusetts Brochure

      • Tioga County, Pennsylvania Brochure

    • QR Code Examples

      • Okaloosa County, Florida DEC Alliance QR Code​

      • Okaloosa County, Florida DEC Alliance Resource QR Code

      • Bristol County Massachusetts Handle with Care QR Code

    • Phone Application

      • Greene County, Missouri DEC Alliance Smartphone App​

Institutionalization

• Institutionalization Introduction Sheet

• Continue to Connect with National DEC

• Continue Training and Raising Awareness

• Provide Local DEC Development Training and Facilitation

• Provide Train-the-Trainer Training

• Institutionalize and Share DEC Promising Practices

  • Develop and Utilize Protocols, MOU's and Bylaws​

    • National DEC Building a Protocol Worksheet​

    • Protocol Examples

      • Jasper County, Iowa Protocol​

      • Shawnee County, Kansas Protocol

      • Connecticut State DEC Alliance Protocol

      • Spokane, Washington Protocol

  • Develop and Utilize Bylaws

    • National DEC Building a DEC Bylaw Worksheet​

    • Bylaws Examples

      • Jasper County, Iowa Bylaws

      • Carbon County, Wyoming Bylaws

  • Develop and Utilize MOU's

    • National DEC Memorandum of Understand Examples​

      • National DEC - State DEC Draft MOU (sample)​

      • National DEC - State DEC Example MOU (South Carolina)

      • State DEC MOU - Daft (sample)

      • State DEC MOU - Example (Arkansas)

      • Tribal DEC Alliance MOU - Example (Nevada)

• Political and Policy Support

  • Develop DEC Tribal Resolutions​

    • Indian Country DEC Resolution - sample​

    • Indian Country DEC Resolution - example (ITCN - Nevada)

  • Develop Statutes/Legislations

    • Nevada Statute​

    • Oklahoma Legislation

  • Develop Letters of Support

• Formalize Alliance by Conducting Regular Meetings

  • DEC Alliance Rules​

  • DEC Alliance Meeting Sample Agenda

  • DEC Alliance Meeting Sign-in Sheet Example

• Continue to Assess and Enhance Overall DEC Efforts

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