BABY STEPS 2024: Pregnancy, Substance Use, and the Lived Experience

This event will be held online only and will be recorded

Event Overview

Baby Steps 2024 will review current topics and discuss ways to provide care in drug involved pregnancies. We will identify local qualitative research projects that focus on and support promising practice-change by highlighting the experiences of those who pregnancies have been affected by drug use. You will hear from community programs that provide a link to hospital-based care.

Topics will include:

Congenital syphilis, postpartum depression and meth-associated psychosis in pregnancy, Indigenous Practice in Maternity Care: Birthing in a Good Way, Patient-centered research: Nothing about me without me, Lived Experience Panel to evaluate care strategies.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this event participants will be able to:

• Prioritize the lived experience of pregnant people who use substances to inform and deliver improved care.
• Apply emerging research, clinical approaches, culturally grounded care, and community service models to adapt maternity care to the post-pandemic context.
• Develop interprofessional relationships to better serve the complex needs of families affected by substance use.

Agenda

0800-0805 Welcome and silent land acknowledgement
Anonymous interview

0805-0900 Congenital Syphilis – Treating in the Moment

• Identify where we have made progress with congenital syphilis in Manitoba
• Describe outreach interventions that have been effective
• Discuss upcoming interventions that hold promise for greater care access
  Opportunities to engage fathers & co-parents in treatment

0900-0915 CEREMONY – Elder Debbie

0915-1015 Postpartum depression: Life Beyond 6 weeks
Anonymous interview

• Understand PPD and its relationship with substance use
• Describe interventions that are effective to prevent and treat PPD
  Supports that patients appreciate most
• Explore referral pathways to support the first PP year

1015-1035 BREAKOUT SESSION – opportunities for collaboration in postpartum care

1035-1045 Break

1045-1145 Meth-associated psychosis in pregnancy: New Voices
Anonymous interview

• Appreciate the challenges of psychosis in community – the role for hospitalization?
• Identify community programs that can wrap-around care
  Linking with medical team
• Describe strategies to support postpartum recovery in the setting of a psychotic disorder

1145-1215 Lunch

1215-1315 Indigenous Practice in Maternity Care – Birthing in a Good Way
Anonymous interview

• Describe traditional birth practices in Home | Clinic | Hospital
• Explore opportunities to integrate community in healthcare spaces
• Understanding the role of ceremonial fire with birth

1315-1335 BREAKOUT SESSION – cultivating cultural humility in maternity care

1335-1345 Break

1345-1445 Patient-centred research: Nothing about me without me
Anonymous interview

• She Walks with Me: The Indigenous Doulas project
• The Interprofessional Perinatal Care Clinic
• The Opioid Involved Pregnancy according to patients

1445-1500 Break

1500-1550 Lived Experience Panel to evaluate care strategies
Anonymous interview

• STBBI testing and treating
• Mental health supports antepartum vs postpartum
• Meth in pregnancy – how to establish trust
• How to create culturally safe birth

1550-1600 CLOSING CEREMONY

Registration

Physicians: $175
Other Health and Social Services Professionals: $65
Residents/students: $30

As Per CPD Medicine policy, the department requires any refund or cancelation request to be submitted in writing up to fourteen (14) days prior to the program start date . A $50 administrative fee will be withheld to cover transaction and administrative costs. Refund or cancelation requests made less than fourteen (14) days notice may be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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~ 7-14 days after the session date.

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Study Credits

This event was co-developed with the CPD Medicine Program, University of Manitoba and was planned to achieve scientific integrity, objectivity and balance.
This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been approved by the CPD Medicine Program, University of Manitoba for up to 6.5 Mainpro+ credits.

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the CPD Medicine Program, University of Manitoba for a maximum of 6.5 hours.

Participants should only claim credit for the actual number of hours attended.

The University of Manitoba CPD Medicine Program is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME).