Conference Delegate:
$22 per workshop

Lived Experience:
$11 per workshop

The Perinatal Substance Exposures Special Interest Group post-conference event is planned to promote awareness, research, and clinical practice to help prevent perinatal substance exposure, respond to the needs of pregnant and parenting people and effectively support children, adolescents and adults affected by perinatal substance exposures. The post-conference workshop aims to be an inclusive event open to a wide range of people including researchers, clinicians, students, people with living experience, advocacy groups and community members with an interest in the area.

Program:

9:30 – 9:40 Welcome and overview of the day

9:40 – 10:00 A living experience perspective on perinatal exposures and child protection

10:00 – 10:30 Morning Tea

10:30 – 12:00 Different methods and approaches for understanding and supporting perinatal exposures in the context of child protection.

Speakers and topics:

• Dr Claudia Bull (University of Queensland) – Understanding relationships between perinatal and intergenerational exposures and child maltreatment and child protection outcomes.
• Madeleine Powell (National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre) – Prenatal substance use and child protection involvement to age 12: A whole population study of 1, 160, 000 Australian children
• Bee Benyon (Monash University) – Avoiding separation of newborns from their mothers when child safety emergent orders are in place.

12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 – FAST Data Talks

Speakers and topics:

• Dr Kerryn Bagley (Latrobe University) – Scoping review of indicators of FASD in adults
• Bianca (University of New South Wales) – Understanding the prevalence and patterns of opioid agonist treatment during pregnancy for opioid disorder: Insights from a population-based data linkage study, NSW 2004 – 2001
• Dr Justine Daly (Hunter New England Health) – e-cigarette use in pregnancy in Australia: A cross-sectional survey of antenatal clinic attendees.
• Yanan Hu (Monash University) – Using machine learning to predict the effect of alcohol and substance use on women and babies’ health
• Dr Duong Tran (National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre) – The risk of major birth defects following exposure to smoking cessation pharmacotherapies in the first trimester: Findings from an international survey across Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden

2:00 – 2:30 – Dr Robyn Williams (Curtin University) Strong Born – A first of its kind National FASD Prevention Campaign in Australia led by the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) in collaboration with the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs)

2:30 – 2:40 – Wrap up