About CARS

New Connections offers two grant-funded programs that provide intervention services for families with young children impacted by substance use. Families are eligible for services if they have one of the following risk factors: involvement with DFPS, teen parents, history of drug or alcohol use, current or history of family violence, current or history of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, witnessed abuse, someone in the household has drug or alcohol problem, past arrest for drug or alcohol offense, or have financial distress. 

New Connections programs offer parenting instruction, drug education classes, counseling, recovery support, and case management services to qualified families. Most families are referred from DFPS, OSAR, OB clinics or the legal system. Families can be referred or self-refer for services.  All services are individualized based on the participant needs.

 

New Connections – Pregnant Parenting Intervention (PPI)

The New Connections Pregnant Parenting Intervention (PPI) program provides intervention services aimed at reducing the impact, severity, and cost associated with substance-exposed pregnancy to the mother, child, and their families by offering comprehensive case management services, community-based retention services, support for family members, and evidenced-based education for mothers who report a past or present substance use disorder diagnosis.

The Pregnant and Parenting Intervention (PPI) program focuses on females in Dallas County with a past or present substance use diagnosis who are pregnant. The PPI program works in the Parkland WISH Clinic in throughout pregnancy and postpartum to support the mothers and families in recovery.

Parenting Awareness and Drug Risk Education Services (PADRES)

The New Connections Parenting Awareness and Drug Risk Education Services (PADRES) program provides community-based intervention services, case management, and evidenced-informed education to parenting and expectant parents to decrease the impact of substance use.

The Parenting Awareness and Drug Education Services (PADRES) program serves Region 3, which includes the following counties: Tarrant, Dallas, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Fannin, Grayson, Hood, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rockwall, and Wise. 

We provide survivor centered individual and group psychotherapy, clinical case management and advocacy to survivors of crime in Tarrant, Dallas, Denton, and Collin Counties. Services are available to survivors ages 12 and up, in person and online. Life Connections staff are trained to provide a variety of trauma informed therapies, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). In addition to therapy, survivors can receive clinical case management services to assist with victim’s assistance program applications, court accompaniment, victim impact statements and referrals to other supportive services as needed.

A Youth Prevention Selective (YPS) program that offers evidenced-based prevention services to youth and families, educating on effects of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. This includes a 10- session group session with children and youth identified as being at-risk for alcohol and drug use. These 10 sessions offer interactive education while helping youth set goals, build self- esteem, learn refusal skills, and evaluate how using alcohol, tobacco or other drugs may interfere with reaching their goals. Services are offered at schools, community centers and community event.