BEST-PRACTICE RESOURCES

BCAPOP Handbook

BCAPOP Tool Cards

These BCAPOP Tool Cards are part of the BCAPOP Perinatal Substance Use Champion Training Toolkit.  They serve as a conversation starter for pregnancy outreach workers to talk with all participants 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.  You can either: (print this on standard paper (2-sided) and cut them; print them on Avery 5392 Name Badge Inserts (2-sided); or purchase printed versions from the BCAPOP Store.

Harm Reduction Resources

• First Nations Health Authority Hard Reduction Resources and Videos
• Harm Reduction and Pregnancy Booklet
• 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

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
• 16 Steps of Empowerment

Day and Bed-based Programs in BC

TRAINING & RESEARCH

Training Opportunities

Research

• Harm Reduction and Pregnancy Booklet
• Centre for Excellence for Women's Health Website
• Sex, Gender and Cannabis
• Multi-service Prevention Programs for Pregnant and Parenting Women Who Use Substances...
• Overdose Among Mothers: The Association Between Child Removal and Unintentional Drug Overdose...