8th Annual Perinatal Substance Exposure Summit

Description

Project CARA at MAHEC is excited to invite you to the 8th Annual Perinatal Substance Exposure Summit. This virtual live summit will take place on Friday, February 7, 2025. Feel free to join either session or join both! This year's group of speakers reflects a commitment to the goals of the 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

With our line-up of speakers, we hope to support the integration of harm reduction principles into caring for pregnant and parenting people affected by substance use disorders. Our keynote speakers from the Academy of Perinatal Harm Reduction and HardBeauty will focus on strategies that center dignity, justice, and trauma-informed care to support pregnant and parenting persons who use drugs.

Other topics include an introductory and advanced course on perinatal substance use disorders, breast and chestfeeding in the context of substance use, perinatal use of kratom and nicotine, and a panel of persons with lived/living experience intersecting with local harm reduction agencies.

Thank you in joining us in collectively learning and growing our capacity to care for people who use drugs with evidence-based treatment practices.

Scholarship Opportunity Alert: If you have been impacted by Hurricane Helene and/or identify as a harm reductionist in North Carolina then you qualify for free admission to this event. Use discount code H74166-121-100%OFF during check out to redeem this offer. This offer has limited availability and will be addressed on a first come first serve basis.

This program was designed to satisfy, in full, the North Carolina Medical Board's CME requirement for controlled substance prescribers. Per NCAC rules: As of July 1, 2017 all physicians (other than residents), physician assistants, nurse practitioners, podiatrists, and dentists who prescribe controlled substances must satisfy the controlled-substance prescribing CE requirements as set forth by their licensing boards; requirements vary by discipline and board.

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Target Audience

Medical providers, Nurses, Medical Assistants, Law Enforcement, and Behavioral Health professionals including Substance Abuse Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Peer Support Specialists, Care Managers, Lactation Consultants, DHHS Social Workers, and other professionals interested in or working with this population.

Objectives

• Identify practical ways to include harm reduction in their work with pregnant and parenting people who use substances, including the value of peer support in the perinatal period
• Define recommendations for evidence-based practice for birthing parents and neonates affected by perinatal opioid use disorders
• Advocate for peer-supported care, and gain tools to support and implement this model in your practice for better recovery outcomes

Faculty

• Ainsley Bryce
• Karen Burns, MSW LCSWA
• Olivia A. Caron, PharmD, BCACP, CPP
• Tammy J. Cody, MSW, LCSW
• Georganna Cogburn, MS, RD, LDN, IBCLC, RLC
• Racquel Garcia, NCPRSS
• Anna Gerhardt, BSN, RN, MSW
• Caitlin Hettich, MFA, MSW, LCSWA, LCAS
• Keli J. Isgett, LCSW
• Amy E. Marietta, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FASA
• Nathan Mullins, MD, FACOG
• Susan M. Myers, MS, PMHNP-BC, ANP
• Kerry Nolan
• Joelle Puccio, BSN, RN
• Alison Sweeney, MD
• Kimberly Treadaway
• Cortnie Watson
• Megan S. Williams, MSPH, MSW
• Martha Wunsch, MD, FAAP, DFASAM