BCAPOP upcoming events

BCAPOP's Online Perinatal Substance Use Education Day (Live) (June 23, 2026)

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Registrants will have the opportunity to attend live/online sessions throughout the day focused on best practices, program overviews, and current research related to supporting perinatal people who use substances. The day promises to be engaging, fast-paced, and interactive, with opportunities for attendees to ask presenters questions.

The full day's agenda and additional speakers will be released closer to the event date. This event will be recorded and available to registrants to view up to 14 days after the release date.

Keynote Presenter:
Heather Cameron, RN
Executive Director, British Columbia Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programs

Perinatal Substance Use (PSU) Support Skills: Parenting-Friendly Relapse Prevention Planning and Parenting Safety Plans

In this keynote session, attendees will review perinatal substance use (PSU) best practices and explore practical tools to better support perinatal people who use substances. Two tools that will be explored in-depth include parenting-friendly relapse prevention plans and parenting safety plans and how to support perinatal people to create and implement them.

Heather will share both professional and lived-experience examples to help attendees envision how these tools can be implemented in real-life, day-to-day practice scenarios. Printable resources will be provided to all attendees.

By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:

Describe the key aspects of creating a parenting-friendly relapse prevention plan, including strategies to ensure the plan is practical and family-centered
Describe the key aspects of a parenting safety plan and identify common planning pitfalls to avoid
Support perinatal people to create and implement relapse prevention and parenting safety plans in a way that increases their capacity to parent safely while addressing their substance use disorder

Keynote's Bio:

Heather Cameron is honoured to work, play and live on the ancestral, traditional and unceded territory of the Secwepemc Nation. Heather is a Registered Nurse with a Perinatal Specialty Certificate who has been working with pregnant people in a variety of settings since 2005. Her experience includes program planning, public speaking, and spearheading community development events. As a Registered Nurse, Heather has worked in several fields including withdrawal management, labour & delivery, and maternity.

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, regional, and provincial levels. Two projects that Heather is most proud of include a peer-based recovery support group for birth parents affected by substance use, Mothers for Recovery, and the Healthy Care Pregnancy Program that supports perinatal people who use substances. Heather may be most well-known for her Perinatal Substance Use Training that she created and has been presenting since 2007 throughout BC, Canada and beyond. Her volunteer involvement on a variety of committees including Foundry Kamloops, 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.

REGISTRATION IS NON-REFUNDABLE

Discount group ticketing is available for four or more more tickets, please email admin@bcapop.ca for pricing. Tickets are transferable to another individual, please email admin@bcapop.ca for any name substitutions. Registration is not complete until payment is received.

BCAPOP's Member-Only Community of Practice: From Plan to Powers. Supporting Confident Birth Planning and Decision Making (June 24, 2026)

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT

During pregnancy, families make complex decisions about their pregnancy and birth care. This presentation will provide an overview of the pillars of respectful perinatal care, including family centred care principles and physiology informed perinatal care to support decision making. It will offer some practical strategies and resources to access and use when supporting families during pregnancy and birth. Come learn about ways to use these tools and resources with families during birth planning and early labour care.

Learning Objectives:

1) Explore the pillars of respectful perinatal care, including family centred care, physiology informed practice to support decision making.

2) Facilitate birth planning and apply the B.R.A.I.N. tool to support shared decision making with confidence.

3) Discuss practical strategies designed to support the birthing woman/person in early labour to promote comfort and coping, and a smooth transition into active labour.

Presenter: Lisa Sutherland, RM, IBCLC

Lisa Sutherland is the Provincial Midwifery Lead at Perinatal Services BC. She is a Registered Midwife and Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) with 20 years of experience in perinatal care. Her previous roles include Lead for Midwifery at Saint Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver and board member of the Midwives Association of BC.  She lives with her family on the unceded and traditional territory of the K’ómox First Nation. Lisa is passionate about actively engaging with families and health care providers in BC to strengthen perinatal care.

Presenter: Michelle Delany, RN, BSN, MN

Michelle Delany is the Provincial Lead for Perinatal Care at Perinatal Services BC, with over 30 years of experience as a Registered Nurse specializing in perinatal and neonatal care. Her career spans clinical practice in labour, birth, and NICU, as well as nurse educator roles supporting health care professionals and families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum in both rural and urban settings. Michelle is passionate about advancing perinatal care across British Columbia and currently works on the traditional territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation. 

BCAPOP's Online Conference for Helping Peers (Recorded Video) (January 31, 2028)

Mon, 31 Jan 2028 08:00:00 GMT

BCAPOP's Online Conference for Helping Peers

You will have access to the recording once you receive your confirmation email.

This recorded conference is FREE and open to all helping peers in BC who support pregnant, postpartum or early parenting people who have a history of substance use. Please join us for insightful learning, self-reflection, and skill development.

Conference Highlights

FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM AVAILABLE HERE

Originally recorded January 13th, 2026.

In order to preserve registrants' confidentiality and anonymity, BCAPOP used Zoom Webinar and registrants' video profiles were disabled. This free recording will be available until January 31, 2028.

BCAPOP gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the Provincial Perinatal Substance Use Program, BC Women's Mental Health and Substance Use Programs + Initiatives for this event.