Talking About Substance Use During Pregnancy: Collaborative Approaches for Health Care Providers
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Doorways to Conversation: Brief Intervention on Substance Use with Girls and Women
New Terrain: Tools to Integrate Trauma and Gender Informed Responses into Substance Use Practice and Policy
This toolkit provides information about trauma, gender, and sex informed programs, initiatives and projects to share in staff training, program planning and evaluation, and to assist in supporting these approaches in programs and organizations. It also includes specific tools to support practice and policy change. It is one of many publications created as part of the Trauma/Gender/Substance Use Project.
This resource has been made possible by a financial contribution from Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada.
Trauma Informed Practice and the Opioid Crisis: A Discussion Guide for Health Care and Social Service Providers
This discussion guide is intended to stimulate further conversation on “becoming trauma-informed” and assist health care and social service providers in considering additional ways of addressing the opioid crisis in their particular context. It is one of many publications created as part of theTrauma/Gender/Substance Use Project.
This resource has been made possible by a financial contribution from Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada.
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Women and Opioids: Media Guide
This media resource was created by researchers at the Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health as part of theTrauma/Gender/Substance Use Project and in partnership with the Canada FASD Research Network. CEWH is hosted by BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority.
Funding for the creation of this guide was provided by Health Canada. The views herein are not necessarily those of Health Canada.
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Sex, Gender and Opioids
A resource for service providers and program planners, this info sheet describes sex- and gender-based factors impacting opioid use and treatments.
It is one of several resources developed as part of the Trauma/Gender/ Substance Use (TGS) project made possible by funding from Health Canada. The views in this resource do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada.
Sex, Gender and Cannabis
A resource for service providers and program planners, this info sheet describes what we know so far about sex- and gender-based factors related to cannabis use.
It is one of several resources developed as part of the Trauma/Gender/Substance Use (TGS) project made possible by funding from Health Canada. The views in this resource do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada. Revised February 2018.
Gender Informed Approaches to Substance Use Resource List
This is one of 3 resource lists focusing on gender, trauma and substance use, and has been made possible by a financial contribution from Health Canada.
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Women and Cannabis
This resource was developed through the support of the Education and Training Council, Alberta FASD Cross Ministry Committee and reviewed by experts from the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and the Canada FASD Research Network. It was updated September 2017 with new research and uses the scientific name, cannabis, rather than the common name, marijuana.
Women and Prescription Opioids
This resource was developed through the support of the Education and Training Council, Alberta FASD Cross Ministry Committee and reviewed by experts from the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and the Canada FASD Research Network. Updated September 2017
Women and Prescription Pain Medications Infographic
This resource was developed as part of a project funded by the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse.