Aligning Efforts to Support a High-Quality Early Childhood Workforce / Network Updates July 2024

Providing Tools to Support People with Perinatal Substance Use Disorder (PSUD)

Hawai‘i Maternal and Infant Health Collaborative (HMIHC) / ECAS Team 1 partners and allies including Hawai‘i Pacific University and the Healthcare Association of Hawai‘i are working to create a web-based, interdisciplinary training for providers.

• The project team recently completed module 2 on Medication for Opioid Use Disorder for Pregnant and Postpartum Persons

• This module supplements the first session on Caring for Pregnant and Postpartum People with Substance Use Disorder

• Future training modules are in development.

Module 1: Caring for Pregnant and Postpartum People with Substance Use Disorder

Module 2: Medication for Opioid Use Disorder for Pregnant and Postpartum Persons

Contributors include Dr. Tricia Wright (UCSF), Dr. Michele Pangilinan (UH, Hawai‘i Pacific Health, Waikiki Health PATH Clinic), Amber Hernandez (Lived Expertise), Kimberly Nabarro, Ashley Viluan (EPIC ‘Ohana, Lived Expertise), Nichole Mansanas (The Queen’s Health Systems)