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. 

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

HARM REDUCTION RESOUCES

• 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)