Safe, collaborative, trusting relationships are a essential when it comes to working with women and families, ‎where there is substance use.  Some key educational offerings that support building safe relationships include: Motivational Interviewing, trauma and violence informed practice, and Indigenous Cultural Safety.  The following courses are available to help you grow your skills in these areas. Indigenous Cultural Safety is integrated throughout all our content. 

SafeCare

SafeCare  education includes trauma and violence informed practice, substance use harm reduction, Indigenous Cultural Safety, and self-care components.   The SafeCare curriculum focuses on principles of resilience, healing, and improved care outcomes. The goal of the learning is to create safer, more collaborative, more trusting relationships with patients, families and colleagues. There are two different versions of SafeCare. These include a BC Children's & Women's version for all employees, leaders, and physicians, as well as a Perinatal Substance Use version for healthcare provider and leaders in the province who work with women who are pregnant or newly parenting and who use substances.

Motivational Interviewing (MI)

Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative conversation style, that draws on a person's own motivation to change. All Health Authorities (HA) offer yearly seats at MI training. These offerings are coordinated through point persons at each HA.  You may also contact your regional perinatal substance working group to find out about Centre for Collaboration, Motivation and Innovation education opportunities. Finally, see the education resource list for other on-demand resources for MI. 

Elders Visioning Perinatal Substance Use Toolkit

The Elders Visioning Perinatal Substance Use Toolkit is a unique resource describing Indigenous Elders' teaching and perspectives on providing culturally safe health care and how to engage Elders in health care services in a good way.

Moms and babies both do better when they are together. BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre (BCW) supports mother and baby togetherness as a guiding principle for care, recommended by Health Canada and the World Health Organization (WHO) (2009).

The Provincial Rooming In Guideline for Perinatal Women Using Substances was developed by the Provincial Perinatal Substance Use Program at BCW. The guideline is comprised of best evidence, leading and wise practices to support mother and baby togetherness through Rooming-in in the acute care setting.

Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) refers to a clinical tool used in acute care to manage neonatal withdrawal symptoms.  ESC education is available as part of the Perinatal Substance Use course on the UBC CPD site. ‎

The Implementing Eat, Sleep, Console Provincial Evaluation Report summarizes key findings on learning and experiences of ESC implementation at acute care hospital sites and uptake of online training across the province. 

• Implementing Eat, Sleep, Console Provincial Evaluation Report - Short Summary

Addiction Care and Treatment Online Course (UBC CPD)

Please see the "Pregnancy and Substance Use" module that is part of the ACTOC Certificate course. You can complete individual modules, or the entire certificate, if you choose. 

Perinatal Substance Use (UBC CPD)

The Perinatal Substance Use course includes 4 separate modules related to perinatal care, the Eat, Sleep Console (ESC) clinical tool and non-pharmalogical care, as well as pharmacological care, Neonatal Abstinance Syndrome, principles of care, and 'going home'.