Tune in for WomenNC's 2nd Lunch 'n' Learn of 2022 - Critical Conversations: Substance Use through a Gender Lens!
Learn about the stigma, the research, and the action amazing organizations are taking to support the women of your community!
Speakers include:
Moderator: Tamara Terry - WomenNC Vice President of Board of Directors & Research Survey Scientist at RTI International
Melissa Godwin - Clinical Associate Professor, UNC Chapel Hill, NC Pregnancy and Opioid Exposure Project
Felicia Browne - Senior Research Social Epidemiologist, RTI’s Substance Use, Gender and Applied Research Program
Leslianne Davis - SAIOP Engagement & Transition Specialist at SouthLight Healthcare
Essence Hairston - Program Manager, UNC Horizons Program in Wake County
Brittany Johnson - Clinician for Concord MAT Program at McLeod Addictive Disease Center
From the Panelists: A Call to Action
- Educate and discuss safekeeping practices and opportunities for treatment to occur
- Identify perinatal and maternal SUD programs in the state that can the meet the needs of women and children
- Advocate for additional perinatal and maternal SUD programs in the state and understand how to refer individuals and their families
- Engage in stigma-free language
- Increase understanding and awareness of alcohol exposure in pregnancy and the prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.
- Advocate for expansion in Diversion & ReEntry programs
- Attend an al-anon meeting
- Educate yourself about perinatal substance use and safekeeping practices
- Utilize sigma-free language (see link below)
- Advocate for perinatal and maternal treatment programs
- Advocate for family drug treatment courts in your county to help keep families together and out of correctional settings
Resources:
Education:
North Carolina Pregnancy and Opioid Exposure Project
CDC Women and Alcohol Fact Sheet
Words Matter - Terms to Use and Avoid When Talking About Addiction
Addictionary(to use non stigmatized language)
Ted Talk by Johann Hari: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
Access to Services:
Proof Alliance NC, The North Carolina Fetal Alcohol Prevention Program
Access to Services at UNC Horizons Wake County