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 * Perinatal Addictions Specialist[[image:http://www.lifebridgehealth.org/images/womensservices/initiative3.jpg caption="Perinatal Addictions Specialist"]]**

Perinatal addictions specialist Assist marijuana using/abusing pregnant women Address how marijuana use can harm women and babies Provide treatment referrals, follow ups, and in home education Provide psycho educational groups for women who use marijuana

Outreach finds women who need help quitting marijuana use

Educates/ counsels pregnant women on marijuana use and its harm. Financed through $50 000 grant from Rogue Valley Medical Center Foundation. Offer weekly childbirth classes Assisted with 10 drug free babies in the past few months

Healthy Babies

Takes referrals from other agencies Prenatal care classes Focus on babies health Have support group for mothers Assist with daily living, stress management, and communication skills

On-Track Provide treatment programs Tracks women down to try to get them in classes or group meetings They believe all women need someone who cares and believes that they are not bad people Breaking The Cycle

There are no known safe limit of marijuana use during pregnancy. They help reduce the impact on individuals families and society of prenatal/postnatal exposure to marijuana. They have developed specialized programs for pregnant women and mothers using marijuana. Breaking the cycle started in 1995. They developed a program to help with early detection and prevention for pregnant mothers using marijuana. BTC was designed to address the needs of women who are pregnant who are struggling with problems related to marijuana use. They help make woman aware of the risk factors to using marijuana during pregnancy. Other services provided by Breaking the Cycle are: addictions, relapse prevention groups, recovery groups, life skills groups, individual counseling, parenting skills, new moms support groups, nobody’s perfect parenting groups, healthy cooking classes, parent child mother goose program, parent child counseling, mother craft learning through play group, and child welfare access visits. Breaking the cycle is committed to the services of reflecting the following values: the services are offered in a non-judgmental, supportive, encouraging, respectful environment. Parents have the desire for their children to grow and develop to their full potential. Children have the right to develop into healthy, happy, and productive individuals The most critical contributor to a child’s development is the bond between the child and the mother.

Breaking the Cycle Harm Reduction

Harm reduction is a public health alternative to the moral, criminal, and disease models of drug use and addiction. It refers to interventions that seek to reduce harms related to substance use for individuals, families, and communities. It offers a respectful, non-judgmental approach to accommodate goals of reduced use rather than quitting cold turkey. This is a critical part of treatment in pregnant women, to prevent the baby from going into shock. Harm reduction offers attention to preventing the harms of maternal marijuana use experienced by the children. The treatment includes careful assessment of marijuana use on maternal functions and mothering behaviors, on individual needs of the infant. Breaking the cycle offers education and training to other agencies to decrease isolation of pregnant women using marijuana, and to increase their knowledge of available community resources, and to promote their use of services. Breaking the Cycle helps to increase maternal planning for mothers and expected infants.