Supporting Parents & Families with Perinatal Substance Use

From KDHE's Kansas Connecting Communities: 

This webinar will introduce participants to the intersection of substance use, pregnancy, and postpartum. Presented by Margaret Lloyd Sieger, Ph.D, the presentation will cover screening, diagnostic criteria, brief intervention, recommendations for breastfeeding, and family-centered, interdisciplinary best practices to support children and other caregivers. CEs available.

Dr. Lloyd is an Associate Professor at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in the Department of Population Health. Her research focuses on practice and policy addressing parental substance use, with particular attention to families with infants and young children. Her current research, funded by NIDA and NIJ, examines policies on substance use in pregnancy, family treatment court effectiveness, and best practice standards implementation.