Best Practice Resources

BCAPOP Publications

BCAPOP Tool Cards

These BCAPOP Tool Cards serve as a conversation starter for perinatal professionals and helping peers to talk with all participants, clients & patients about ways they can reduce harms and increase capacity within themselves.  The card is meant for the participant to take home as a reminder tool. 

Printed versions of the following BCAPOP Tool Cards are available for purchase from the BCAPOP Store.

HARM REDUCTION RESOURCES

• Harm Reduction and Pregnancy: Community-based Approaches to Perinatal Substance Use in Western Canada 
• Harm Reduction: Girls, Women, Alcohol and Pregnancy
• Health Link BC: Understanding Harm Reduction
• Taking Care of Each Other- Indigenous Perspectives on Harm Reduction
• Oh Shit, I'm Pregnant

Other Best Practice Resources

Substance Specific Resources for Professionals
Alcohol & FASD

Cannabis

Nicotine

Opioids and Naloxone

Support for Participants Who Use Substances

Peer Support Programs in BC

• Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) BC
  
• Marijuana Anonymous
  
• Mothers for Recovery: A Start-up Guide for Moms 
  
• Narcotics Anonymous (NA) BC
  
• Peer Support Canada
  
• SMART Recovery BC

Day and Bed-based Programs in BC

• Ellendale Residential Treatment, Vancouver 
• Harmony House, Prince George 
• HerWay Home, Victoria
• Karis Society, Kelowna
• Maxxine Wright Community Health Centre, Surrey
• Sheway, Vancouver
• Fir Square, BC Women's Hospital, Vancouver
• Fir Square, BC Women's Hospital Referral Form
• Heartwood Residential Treatment Centre, Vancouver
• Peardonville Residential Treatment, Abbotsford
• Aboriginal Mother Centre Society, Vancouver
• First Nations Treatment Centres in B.C.

Training & Research

Training Opportunities

Research

• Centre for Excellence for Women's Health Website
  
• Sex, Gender and Cannabis (2019)
• Multi-service Prevention Programs for Pregnant and Parenting Women Who Use Substances...(2020)
• Overdose Among Mothers: The Association Between Child Removal and Unintentional Drug Overdose...(2020)
• Contact that Heals: Frontline Work in the Opioid Crisis and Beyond (2020)
• Engagement of Substance Using Pregnant Women in Addiction Recovery (2011)
• Mother's Experience of Stigma: Multi Level Ideas for Action (2020)
• Levels and Predictors of Participation in Integrated Treatment Programs for Pregnant and Parenting...(2019)
• Insights in to the Service Needs Among Substance Abusing Homeless Mothers (2012)
• Understanding Mother's Experiencing Homelessness (2017)
  
• Voices from the Community: Developing Effective Community Programs to Support Pregnant...(2013)
• Supporting Families at Sheway and Beyond (2016)

• Efficacy of Ecologically-Based Treatment with Substance-Abusing Homeless Mothers...(2013)