SACCounty Healthy Beginnings

Training Resources

September 18th, 2024

Psychosocial Risk for Pregnant and Parenting Women with a History of Alcohol and Other Substance Misuse:

Building a Foundation for Gender-specific Treatment and Care

Part Two: The Clinic Ecology

A history of personal or intergenerational trauma, beyond its impact on health and mental health, can impact an individual's view of the world and readiness to parent. This session will present a framework for understanding the impact of a pregnant or parenting woman’s personal history on her ability to accept health information and advice and how clinicians can use the information as a basis for developing and providing gender-specific treatment and care.

June 12th, 2024

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Make Room for Daddy

Engaging Fathers in Addressing the Needs of Families Affectedby Substance Use in Pregnancy

About the training: Most research and work in the field of perinatal substance use and misuse focuses on the pregnant and parenting woman. But the father of the baby can plan an important role in the woman’s cessation of substance use as well as influencing a positive developmental trajectory. This webinar will present the latest information regarding the impact of a male’s use of substances on reproductive outcome and consequences for the child’s long-term development. Strategies for engaging the father in family treatment services also will be discussed.

Clips from this presentation will be shown on our social media channels. Be sure to follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.

May 9th, 2024

Prenatal Methamphetamine Exposure

The Science of Maternal/Child Risk

Prenatal Methamphetamine Exposure, the Science of Maternal/Child Risk, presented by Ira J. Chasnoff, MD. Presented as part of the Sacramento County Meth Coalition meeting on May 9th, 2024.