It’s been two and a half decades of helping women recover from addiction, but Barbara Schindler is just getting started.
Schindler, MD, a professor in Drexel College of Medicine’s departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, helped found Caring Together in 1990. The program helps women and children overcome drug and alcohol abuse using evidence-based practices, integrated care for psychiatric disorders and trauma-informed care.
Now, Schindler is expanding her scope, launching Working Together for Women in collaboration with Mothers in Charge and the Office of Addiction Services, city of Philadelphia, which is aimed at reducing the recidivism and relapse rate of formerly incarcerated women.
“A year ago, the City of Philadelphia came to us saying, ‘We have a real problem with women coming out of prison,’” Schindler said. “Many of them have issues with drug use and mental health problems, and that leads them to substance-use related crimes, such as selling drugs or prostitution. We are still in a society that is not very accepting of women who do things like this.”
[For more of this story, written by Frank Otto, go to http://www.drexel.edu/now/arch...sthash.lOVbiGD8.dpuf]
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