Hushabye Nursery’s innovative, trauma-informed model of care offers a safe and inclusive space. Mothers with opioid use disorder or substance abuse disorder, their babies withdrawing from opioids exposed to in the womb (Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome – NAS), and family members can receive integrative care and therapeutic support that offers the best possible life outcomes. Across the nation, there are only two other facilities that provide NAS inpatient nursery services. However, neither provides family-based, “wrap around” support services that make Hushabye Nursery unique.
Hushabye Nursery reduces NAS symptoms and the need for pharmacological care in infants, lowers hospital costs and lengths of stay, and keeps families together – while creating improved health outcomes infants and their families. Every baby with NAS and mom/dad can share a private room at Hushabye Nursery; this promotes prosocial bonding critical for recovery and improved health outcomes. Before, during and after their stay, Mom and Dad can participate in psychoeducation, recovery support, parenting and life skills education, help with building social connections, and peer support.
Thunderbirds Charities has awarded $60,000 to Hushabye Nursery to change the care model for mom, dad, and baby than what would otherwise be experienced in a hospital. The model drastically reduces the degree to which newly born babies are experiencing early childhood trauma, connects opiate-dependent moms with evidence-based recovery programs, keeps families stable and united while reducing the utilization rate of state foster care. Hushabye Nursery is grateful for the support from Thunderbirds Charities change the care for babies born opioid exposed.
This grant is part of the Fall 2023 cycle. View a list of all Recent Grantees.