7th Annual Perinatal Substance Exposure Summit

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We are excited to have you attend the 7th Annual Perinatal Substance Exposure Summit. This virtual statewide summit will take place on Friday, October 27th. This will be a full-day event offering morning and afternoon sessions.

Feel free to join either session or join both!
Morning Session 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Afternoon Session 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

This year's group of speakers continues to reflect a commitment to the goals of this summit:

1. Delivering evidence-based practice around Perinatal Substance Use Disorders (PSUD) treatment
2. Providing education that is pertinent to all parts of the integrated team working with PSUD

In this, the first post-COVID summit, we examine the changing landscape and lessons learned in best practices for caring for pregnant and parenting people, infants, and families affected by substance use disorders. The morning keynote "Leveraging Medicaid for Maternal Health in North Carolina: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow," led by NC Medicaid Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shannon Dowler, will focus on the recent Medicaid changes expanding access and care to pregnant and parenting persons, ways to leverage resources to support this care, and upcoming priorities for the department, particularly as they relate to maternal health. Kristie Puckett Williams, MA, will start our afternoon session off with a deeply moving presentation that tells the stories of people impacted by incarceration, in "Dignity for Incarcerated Pregnant Women: The Impact of Race, Gender & Substance Use Disorders on Incarceration."

In addition to these keynote presentations, we will highlight other topics examining innovative ways to prescribe in the era of fentanyl and xylazine, firsthand experiences with the Eat, Sleep, Console treatment model for NOWS (neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome), spirituality and holistic approaches to recovery, tips for working collaboratively with community pharmacies, and START (Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams) as a specialized child welfare service delivery model. We look forward to sharing this time with you as we focus on innovative and best practice models of care for pregnant and parenting people, infants, and families affected by substance use disorders. Hope you can join us!

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In Collaboration with

With Support from The Leon Levine Foundation

This program is supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

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Target Audience

Medical providers, nurses, medical assistants, law enforcement, and behavioral health professionals including substance abuse counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychologists, peer support specialists, care managers, lactation consultants, DHHS social workers, and other professionals interested in or working with this population.

Objectives

• Recognize the ways NC Medicaid has been and can be a powerful lever to advance maternal health and outcomes
• Explain the ways in which race, gender, and substance use disorders influence conditions of incarceration, and particularly how they impact women's recovery
• Realize Xylazine's prevalence in the drug supply, its unique effects and consequences, and best practices for providers in managing its sequela
• Describe the experiences of patients, staff, and clinicians in transitioning to an Eat, Sleep, and Console model of care for treatment of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS) in the peripartum period
• Explore the ways that spirituality, religion, or faith may act as a component of holistic care for persons in recovery
• Identify novel strategies of initiating buprenorphine in the fentanyl era, and ways of working collaboratively with pharmacies and pharmacists to improve patient care

Faculty

• Brittany Bagwell
• Rebecca R. Bass, RN-C, BSN
• Steven Buser, MD
• Olivia A. Caron, PharmD, BCACP, CPP
• Jessie Cobb
• Tammy J. Cody, MSW, LCSW
• Leonard L. Cruz, MD ME
• Brittney Darity
• Anna L. Dill, MD, MPH
• Shannon Dowler, MD
• Erika K. Harrison, LPN, WCN-C
• Claire W. Hubbard, EMT-P, RN
• Russell S. Jones, ThD, LCMHCS
• Amy E. Marietta, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FASA
• Desiree McKinney, CPSS
• Bayla Ostrach, MA, PhD, CIP
• Sarah Peiffer, MD
• Kristie E. Puckett-Williams, MA
• Erin Smead, BA, MSW
• Katherine Watkins, BA