2025 Colorado Perinatal and Substance Use Disorders (SUD) Integration Conference

Speaker and Conference Content

Slides will be posted within one week of the end of the conference.

Monday Opening Keynote - Women and Weed

Learning Objectives

• Identifying marijuana use in women and how the industry has an effect on it. 
• Review data associated with women and marijuana use and discuss types of cannabis.
• Identify the impact on body and brain.
• Understand withdrawal, pregnancy, and parenting in relation to marijuana use.
• Review interventions. 

Monday Breakout 1 Riverside - Resource Panel featuring Colorado PROSPER, Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative (CPCQC), Nurse Family Partnership and ChildFirst

Learning Objectives

• Discuss local resources for practices and community partners to support patients and mothers living with substance use disorder. 
• Have an understanding how to access these resources.

Monday Breakout 1 Gondola - Modifications to Prenatal Care Based on Medical/Obstetric Risk Factors - Part 1

Learning Objectives

• Briefly review evidence based, routine prenatal care practice updates 
• Work through recommended additions to routine prenatal care (including labs, medications, antenatal testing, and delivery timing) based on common preexisting medical conditions such as: 
  • Diabetes - Type 1 & 2, Controlled vs Uncontrolled, Pre-DM 
  • Chronic Hypertension 
  • Obesity and s/p Bariatric Surgery 
  • Thyroid Disease 
  • Infections (STIs, Syphilis, HIV, Hep C)

Monday Breakout 2 Riverside - Expanding and Sustaining CU’s Recovery Coach Doula Program

Learning Objectives

• Compare barriers and facilitators to implementing the Recovery Coach Doula Program in different settings.
• Examine opportunities and financial sustainability.
• Describing unique role of the recovery coach doula role in perinatal care.  

Monday Breakout 2 Gondola - Modifications to Prenatal Care Based on Medical/Obstetric Risk Factors - Part 2

Learning Objectives

• Review and discuss changes to prenatal care (including labs, medications, antenatal testing, and delivery timing) based on other chronic medical or obstetrics risk factors including:
  
  • Maternal age at delivery (AMA, teen) 
    
  • Incarceration 
    
  • SUD 
    
  • Tobacco Use Disorder
    
  • Prior High risk pregnancy (i.e - hx of preE, PTB, gDM) 
    
• Putting it all together - a look at “The HROB Grid”

Monday Afternoon Full Group 1 - Psychedelic Use During the Perinatal Period

Learning Objectives

• Describe the mechanism of action of psychedelics (classical hallucinogens), entactogens (e.g., MDMA) and dissociatives (e.g., ketamine, PCP).
• Appreciate the physiologic differences between pregnant/non-pregnant and lactating/non-lactating states with respect to pharmacokinetic variables.
• List three reasons for psychedelic use during the perinatal period.
• Summarize knowns and unknowns regarding psychedelic use during pregnancy and lactation.
• Appreciate the need for inclusion of pregnant and lactating individuals in medical research.

Monday Afternoon Full Group 2 - Tapestry of Care: Challenging Stigma, Embracing Collaboration

Learning Objectives

• Identifying & challenging stigma & bias in care settings.
• Impact of Collaborative, Stigma-Free Care. 
• Plans of Safe Care will be weaved in throughout the presentation.

Tuesday Morning Full Group 1 - Harm Reduction: A Love Story

Learning Objectives

• Have an understanding of harm reduction and how it applies to our everyday lives, drug use, etc.
• Learn 2-500 harm reduction strategies to support people who use drugs.
• Hear about what is on the horizon in Colorado for harm reduction 2.0 approaches.

Tuesday Morning Full Group 2 - Prenatal Plans of Safe Care: Using Prenatal PoSC to strengthen the patient-provider dyad and create a continuum between the outpatient and inpatient setting.

Learning Objectives

• Envision strategies for partnership with interdisciplinary teams across inpatient and outpatient settings 
• Understand how Prenatal Plans of Safe Care can function within the wider setting of a federal mandate. 
• Consider the Prenatal PoSC as a framework for patient safety to reduce stigma and bias, enhance patient’s experience, and build trusting relationships with providers. 
• Familiarize the audience with tools developed from an ongoing pilot of implementing Plans of Safe Care at Poudre Valley Hospital and the Fort Collins Family Medicine Residency. 
• Assess your organization’s readiness for change and envision your own plan to improve dignity and equity for birthing people and newborns affected by substance exposure.

Tuesday Morning Full Group 3 - Perinatal Substance Use Treatment - Incorporation into Routine Prenatal Care

Learning Objectives

• Outline best practices for Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) care during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
• Summarize the changes that Denver Health has made for OB patients using existing resources.
• Apply Quality Improvement (QI) tools to practice change and guideline implementation into clinical practice.
• Relate multifaceted approach to practice change and guideline implementation into clinical practice as related to SUD/OUD and the lessons learned.

Tuesday Morning Full Group 4 - The Intersection of Syphilis & Substance Use in Pregnancy: Navigating Dual Challenges

Learning Objectives

• Understand the intersection between congenital syphilis and substance use disorders (SUD) in pregnancy, including epidemiological trends and demographic disparities.
• Identify key clinical challenges, systemic barriers, and opportunities in screening, diagnosis, and treatment of pregnant individuals experiencing syphilis and SUD.
• Review integrated, trauma-informed approaches to prenatal care delivery, tailored specifically to the unique needs of pregnant patients affected by syphilis and substance use.