The purpose of the Center on Parenting and Opioids (CPO) Lived Experience Community Board (LECB) was to bring together people with substance use disorders who have pregnancy and parenting experiences to inform research through a community driven process. The LECB included parents who have lived experience with substance use disorders who shared their experience with the CPO to strengthen our communication and to provide ideas to improve the usefulness of our research to other parents. The goals of the Lived Experience Community Board were to:
- provide feedback on new or ongoing research projects
- inform future research directions
- generate ideas for sharing research findings
- identify methods for improving implementation of evidence-based practices
The work of the LECB has expanded and is continuing through new funding for the Pregnancy, Postpartum and Parenting Resource Center.