You’re invited to a crucial one-day conference focused on increasing your knowledge of culturally effective, non-punitive, community based substance use services for pregnant and parenting individuals who use drugs, their infants, and their families.
This in-person event addresses the critical need for better access to appropriate substance use, physical, and mental health services. We aim to enhance the overall well-being of parents and infants, improve their diets, and support family preservation. It will be followed-up by 5 virtual sessions to dive deeper into the topics.
Join us as we work to expand your understanding of effective substance use interventions, coordinate care, and foster partnerships to improve well-being and outcomes through culturally and linguistically effective, evidence-informed, community-based, non-judgmental, and non-punitive services for individuals of childbearing ability and those who are pregnant. This conference marks the beginning of a vital effort to make a real difference by equipping you with essential knowledge in the field of substance use services.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and correct common myths and misconceptions about substance use during pregnancy, including the historical roots and impacts of stigmatizing narratives such as the “crack baby” myth.
- Describe evidence-based, non-punitive approaches to supporting families affected by substance use, including alternatives to automatic reporting, harm reduction strategies, and effective linkage to care.
- Apply practical tools for data collection, analysis, and collaboration that center family wellbeing, using both quantitative and qualitative measures to assess progress and inform care in real time.
Presented by:
- Kimá Joy Taylor, MD, MPH, FAAP is the Co-Founder of Doing Right By Birth and Founder of Anka Consulting, a health care consulting firm and recently completed a Non-Resident Fellowship at the Urban Institute. She most recently served as the National Drug Addiction Treatment and Harm Reduction Program Director at the Open Society Foundations. She oversaw grantmaking that supported education, advocacy, systems reform and innovation to expand equitable access to and outcomes from a full continuum of integrated, evidence informed, culturally and linguistically effective substance use disorder services and supported programming that developed non-punitive individual and public health not criminal justice responses for people with substance use disorders. Prior to joining the Open Society Foundations, Taylor served as Deputy Commissioner for the Baltimore City Health Department where she created more cohesive and integrated public health services for citizens at risk; a large percentage of whom had substance use disorders and/or HIV. Before Baltimore, she served as the health and social policy legislative assistant for Senator Sarbanes, with issue areas including Social Security, TANF, pharmaceuticals, Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care policy and women’s issues.A pediatrician, Taylor is a graduate of Brown University, Brown University School of Medicine, and the Georgetown University residency program in pediatrics. From 1998 to 2002, Taylor cared for uninsured and underinsured patients at a community health center in Washington, D.C., and created a city-wide coalition to advance literacy in pediatric primary care. She worked with other community organizations to empower youth such that they will realize their abilities, grasp opportunities, and improve the world at large.In 2002, Taylor was awarded a Commonwealth Foundation fellowship in minority health policy at Harvard University. During the fellowship, Taylor’s research focused on exploring state legislative remedies for racial and ethnic health disparities. Eliminating health disparities and inequities has been a theme throughout all of her work.
- Mishka Terplan, MD, MPH, FACOG, DFASAM is board certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and in addiction medicine. His primary clinical, research, public health, and advocacy interests lie along the intersections of reproductive and behavioral health. He is Medical Director at Friends Research Institute and adjunct faculty at the University of California, San Francisco where he is a Substance Use Warmline clinician. He is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Doing Right By Birth, a non-profit that seeks to flip the script from drug exposure to early childhood development. Dr. Terplan has spoken at local high schools and before the United States Congress and is internationally recognized as an expert in the care of pregnant and parenting people who use drugs.
Continuing Education Units:
This training is approved for six (6) continuing education units continuing education by the boards listed here.
Funding for this training was made possible in whole or in part by the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Director’s Office through the Fund for a Resilient Nevada, established in Nevada Revised Statutes 433.712 through 433.744, and by Washoe County through the One Nevada Agreement allocation of the Washoe Opioid Abatement and Recovery Fund (Grant #WOARF24-00003). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Nevada Opioid Center of Excellence, DHHS, or Washoe County.