MAY 22, 2003 | Arkansas Attorney-General Mike Beebe visited a program for women with substance abuse problems and their children of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) yesterday.

Cynthia C. Crone, MNSc, APN, executive director of the program, called Arkansas CARES, escorted General Beebe. Arkansas CARES is a program of the Department of Psychiatry in the UAMS College of Medicine.

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, crime, poor parenting, and loss of parental rights that threatens an estimated one-third of mothers in Arkansas.

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American Psychiatric: http://www.uams.edu/today/2002/100902/goldaward.htm
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