In December 2018, NAPW Senior Staff Attorney Amber Khan delivered a presentation to the AIDS Institute’s state-wide Women Who Use Drugs Workgroup, part of the New York State Department of Health, on the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) and its connection to pregnancy and drug use.

After moderating a related panel at the New School, NAPW Senior Staff Attorney Aarin Williams published a piece entitled “Child Welfare and the Intended Consequences of the War on Drugs” in the May 16, 2018 issue of Urban Matters: Ideas and Analysis from the Center for New York City Affairs.

On March 13th, NAPW Senior Staff Attorney Aarin Williams moderated a panel discussion co-hosted by the Child Welfare Organizing Project (CWOP) and The New School Center for NYC Affairs entitled: “Child Welfare: The Unintended Consequence of the War on Drugs.

In November 2017, NAPW's Executive Director Lynn Paltrow presented at the Maternal and Child Health Town Hall session at the 2017 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo in Atlanta, GA. During this session, Lynn Paltrow spoke about substance use and supporting the needs of pregnant women and the well-being of children and families.

In October, NAPW staff traveled to Alabama and Georgia to connect with local advocates and allies and speak about our work advocating for the human and civil rights of pregnant people. In Tuscaloosa, AL, Nancy Rosenbloom (Director of Legal Advocacy) and Aarin Williams (Senior Staff Attorney) presented a teach-in organized by the Yellowhammer Fund about the chemical endangerment law in Alabama and the criminalization and punishment of people in relationship to pregnancy.

En este video, las madres que han batallado con el uso de drogas y sus hijos reflexionan sobre sus vidas y responden a Project Prevention, un programa que ofrece $300 a personas que usan o usaban drogas, para que se esterilicen o usan métodos de anticoncepción de acción prolongada.

NAPW response to Reuters investigation of reporting of drug use, child welfare and infant deaths
December 14, 2015

Read full response here.

November 09, 2015
NAPW commends the good intentions behind the Protecting our Infants Act of 2015, but believes that the Act will in fact reinforce gender stereotypes, stigmatize drug use, and lead to punitive civil and criminal sanctions against pregnant women and girls.

NAPW files amicus brief in N.Y. case

On July 24, NAPW filed an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief supporting Jennifer Jorgensen's appeal to New York's court of last resort in the case New York v. Jorgensen.