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Psychiatric Association Gives Gold Award to UAMS Program
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9, 2002 | The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has given its
prestigious annual Gold Award to the University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences (UAMS) for its innovative treatment program for
women with substance abuse problems and their children.
Representatives of the Arkansas
Center for Addictions Research, Education. and Services (Arkansas
CARES) accepted the award at an APA meeting in Chicago today. The
Institute on Psychiatric Services of the APA selected Arkansas
CARES to receive the award, which includes a $10,000 prize from
Pfizer Inc. The award is for large academic or
institution-sponsored psychiatric programs.
Cynthia C. Crone, executive director of Arkansas CARES; G. Richard Smith, M.D.,
chairman of UAMS Psychiatry; Winston Brown, M.D.; and Linda Worley,
M.D., accepted the award. Dale P. Svendsen, M.D., chair of the
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Using rented space at the Methodist
Children's Home near the center of Little Rock, the leaders of
Arkansas CARES have created a comprehensive residential program
for women struggling with addiction -- and their children. From left: Cynthia Crone, MNSc, APN, executive director;
Patti Bokony, Ph.D.;
G. Richard Smith, M.D., chairman of the UAMS Department of
Psychiatry; and Linda Worley, M.D., at Arkansas CARES. Click on
image for print-quality resolution (JohnPaul
Jones)
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Awards Committee of the institute, commended the program "on
this well-deserved recognition."
Dr. Smith commented last week,
"Arkansas CARES is an outstanding program that we are proud
to sponsor. Everyone in the department congratulates the fine
staff of Arkansas CARES for this wonderful recognition."
Arkansas CARES offers intensive
treatment for drug addiction in combination with mental health
care for mothers and children and lessons about parenting, finding
a job, paying bills, and other life skills. Its leaders say the
comprehensive residential program is more effective at boosting
troubled families into long-term independence than typical drug
treatment, which may consist only of outpatient therapy, or
prison, which forces children into foster care. Women and their
children live together at Arkansas CARES while the women get
"clean" and many learn, for the first time, how to be
good mothers. The program is an innovative approach to breaking
the cycle of childhood abuse, mental illness, drug addiction,
prostitution and crime, poor parenting, and loss of parental
rights.
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Contact:
Leslie W. Taylor
Phone: 501-686-8998
Wireless: 501-951-7260
e-mail: taylorlesliew@uams.edu
Elizabeth F. Shores
Phone: 501-686-8394
e-mail: shoreselizabethf@uams.edu
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