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• CPNP Coordinator Virtual Roundtable: Coalition Model Presentation

  • When
    July 11, 2023
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    11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Join other BC CPNP Coordinators to hear a presentation from Ellen Garvie, Capital Children Coalition Coordinator about the coalition model. This presentation was requested by the majority of CPNP Coordinators at our last Virtual Roundtable.  This session will NOT be recorded. This session will be moderated by Heather Cameron, Executive Director of BCAPOP.  

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• BCAPOP's Perinatal Substance Use 101 Certificate Training (Live/Online)

  • Start
    September 19, 2023
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  • End
    September 20, 2023
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Spaces left
    23

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  This virtual training workshop will provide you with the insight, evidence-based information, increased confidence and comfort to implement useful tools, approaches and strategies to help you engage, support and maintain the supportive relationships necessary to offer gold standard care to your clients, participants or patients.

  This 2-day training workshop is limited to 30 participants to foster an intimate, engaging and safe place to reflect, share and grow in your professional practice in meaningful ways. All participants will receive printed resources to help build their own best practice toolkit.

  These sessions will not be recorded to ensure the privacy of attendees.

  Registration Fee:

  Members Price: $300.00 Per Person

  Non-Members Price: $350.00 Per Person

  BCAPOP is grateful for the generous support for this training from the Provincial Perinatal Substance Use Program, BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre, PHSA, which has allowed us to offer this reduced registration fee.

  Group discounts are available please email Jenna@bcapop.ca for group bookings of 4 or more people. 

  No refunds are available for registrations, however registrations can be transferred to another attendee. 

  Day 1 Overview:

  Opening roundtable introductions

  A basic introduction to:

  • • Language matters
    • The effects of substance use in pregnancy
    • Withdrawal management in pregnancy
    • Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT) in pregnancy
    • Chest/breastfeeding, substance use & harm reduction

   Day 2 Overview:

  
  

  A basic introduction to:

  • • The importance of wrap-around support and building a village
    • Approaches and tools to provide best practice support that aims to be trauma-informed and culturally safe
    • Supporting through transitions in and out of acute care, institutions and through engagement with child welfare
    • Province-wide resources for professionals and pregnant, postpartum and newly parenting people

  Closing roundtable sharing
  

  Facilitator: Heather Cameron, BCAPOP ED,  RN with a Perinatal Specialty Certificate. 

   Heather Cameron, who has been working with pregnant people in a variety of settings since 2005.  Her professional experience includes creating grass-roots programs, public speaking, and spearheading community events. As a Registered Nurse, Heather has worked in multiple settings including withdrawal management, labour & delivery, and maternity.  Heather is also a mother of two girls and a person with lived experience, which informs her professional practice.

  Heather has a proven track record of being able to bring communities together with her experience organizing conferences, creating grass-roots programs and influencing system changes at the local level.  Two projects that Heather is most proud of included a peer-based recovery support group for birth parents affected by substance use and “Health Pregnancy Care Meetings” that supported perinatal people as early as possible in their pregnancy to overcome identified barriers prior to delivery.  Heather may be most well-known for her delivery of workshops on Supporting Birth Parents and Families with Who Use Substances, presented through multiple conferences in BC, Alberta and featured in the World Harm Reduction Conference in England.  Her volunteer involvement on a variety of committees including Make Children First, Perinatal Connections, Raise-a Reader, and S.W.A.T. (Sex Workers Accessing Treatment) has influenced Heather’s knowledge base and ability to create impactful change within communities.  Heather’s experience, passion and credentials all contribute to her drive to support professionals, organizations and families as the Executive Director of BCAPOP.

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