2026 International Early Childhood Inclusion Institute

UNC Horizons Program is a substance use disorder treatment program for pregnant and/or parenting women and their children, including those whose lives have been touched by abuse and violence. In 1993, UNC Horizons was created as a response to a significant need in North Carolina for a treatment and recovery program for pregnant and mothering women – one that helped to resolve the issues of drug use that are specific to women and their families, and one that kept those families together. Now, 250 women are touched each year – more than 5,000 since the program started – by Horizons’ integrated prenatal care and substance use disorder treatment, trauma-informed recovery practices, inpatient and outpatient treatment, career counseling, housing assistance, case management, family therapy and a 5-star child development center for our clients’ children.

We will be discussing what it means to "heal generations" and the holistic approach we take to empower families through accessing early education, therapy, intervention, and other services at Horizons and beyond.