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Topic: Health and Safety

Management of an Opioid Use Disorder During the Postpartum Period & Beyond:  How to Safely Support the Dyad

This recorded session explores comprehensive, trauma-informed strategies to support mothers with opioid use disorder and their infants during the critical postpartum period. It emphasizes the importance of establishing care with a pediatrician, postpartum follow-up, and family planning, while also highlighting essential caregiver education on car seat safety, safe sleep practices, and overdose prevention strategies. Participants will learn how to help caregivers build a healthy support system and understand how wraparound services, peer support, and community-based interventions can reduce risk, improve outcomes, and foster long-term recovery for the dyad.

Opioids 101: What You Need to Know

Opioids impact individuals, families, and communities across the country. In this Opioid 101 video, NOCE’s Morgan Green, MA breaks down everything you need to know, including: What opioids are and how they work; The risks of opioid misuse and overdose; and How to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose.

Change Point

Change Point is a harm reduction program, providing confidential and judgment-free resources to support safer substance use and sexual behavior. Services are free and open to everyone, regardless of whether they are regular HOPES patients. The program also includes a mobile outreach van offering syringe services and rapid testing within the community.

START to be safe

“START to be safe” is a tool that helps clients and providers explore strategies for reducing risks related to substance use and associated health and safety concerns.

Listening Session: Harm Reduction

This Listening Session shares experiences with fentanyl test strip education and distribution, preparedness for overdose emergencies; the evolution of Harm Reduction, and emerging groups of synthetic opioids.