D​​​ate of Webinar: April 25, 2024
Speaker: Megan Lipsett, MA, PhDc

Description: This webinar will examine features of research dissemination that may generate or uphold stigmatization and review stigma reduction practices that can increase uptake of evidence-based treatment programs and prevent potential harm related to substance use in pregnant and parenting people. 

We will examine the need to identify internalized stereotypes, transdisciplinary collaboration with researchers who have lived experience, community-based approaches, reducing stigmatizing language, contextualizing findings, and advocating for stigma-reducing policies.

D​​​ate of Webinar: March 20, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Qiana L. Brown

Description: Prenatal cannabis use has increased in the US despite potential risks to maternal and child health and public health messaging encouraging pregnant women to abstain from cannabis use. 

This webinar will discuss trends in and correlates of prenatal cannabis use, potential reasons why prenatal cannabis use is increasing and what researchers, practitioners and policymakers can do to promote health and social equity to protect maternal and child health in a sociopolitical environment where cannabis use is legal and accepted.

Date: February 15, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Feldstein Ewing 

Description: There has been a global surge in adolescents’ use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)/vaping, cannabis (vaped, edible), and use of prescription opioids (POs) not-as-prescribed. The nature of these substances often renders them “difficult-to detect” due to limited physical and behavioral signs, along with subtle, but often, hazardous longer-term effects. 

Here, Dr. Feldstein Ewing will address the nature of substance use presentation in the adolescent age group, including challenges in detection and related complications that impact screening and prevention. Further, in terms of intervention, many of the existing addiction treatments that we use with adolescents were originally designed for adults; however, the adolescent brain is increasingly being recognized as substantively different than the adult brain. And, likely for related reasons, adolescents engage with substances in different ways than adults.

Date: October 31, 2023 
Speaker: Dr. Phyllis Raynor 

Description: This webinar will discuss a research project using a community-based participatory approach to explore the feasibility and acceptability of delivering customized parenting and recovery supports through digital technology to pregnant and postpartum individuals with Opioid Use Disorders..

Date: May 11, 2023
Speaker: Anna Wilson, PhD

Description: Chronic pain conditions are highly prevalent in the U.S., and are associated with negative impacts on physical and psychosocial function. Physical pain is also a fairly common motivator for use of a number of substances across development.

This webinar will describe current understanding of the impact that parental chronic pain has on offspring, including increased risk for pain and psychological problems, as well as findings from Dr. Wilson’s research focusing on mothers with chronic pain and their children.

The presentation will also highlight the importance of considering parent pain experiences in psychological and substance use research, particularly in work that is focused on parenting and child outcomes. Methods for assessing pain, pain-related disability, pain-specific parenting, and related domains will be discussed.

Date: March 1, 2023
Speakers: Ashton Mara, PhD & Jonathan Stoltman, PhD

Description: Mainstream media perpetuates many problematic narratives about drug use and addiction that increase stigma, discrimination, and bad policy. One way to address these shortcomings is to increase the coverage of evidence-based approaches to addiction treatment and recovery. To do this, we need bridges between subject matter experts and Media. However, many experts are not trained to interact with journalists in today’s media environment. Thus, this webinar is designed to offer customized training to support interactions between addiction experts and Media. Topics covered include preparing for interviews and how to pitch ideas/op-eds to Media. 

Date: February 15, 2023
Moderators: Camille Cioffi, PhD & Tess Drazdowski, PhD
Panelists: Amanda Esquivel, Fernando Pena, Jerrod Murray, Julia Mines, and Tony Vezina 

Description: This panel discussion will provide an overview of what culturally-specific community recovery organizations are, how they fit into the continuum of care, information about the intersections of culture, parenting, and substance use, and what researchers can do to build stronger partnerships and conduct research that is meaningful to the community.

Date: January 26, 2023
Speaker: Camille Cioffi, PhD

Description: In early recovery for substance use disorders, fathers may experience a desire to become more active in their role as a parent but may need support in using effective parenting strategies. Parent management training programs may be helpful for fathers in recovery from substance use disorders. This webinar will describe Dr. Cioffi's work using the Parent Management Training Oregon model.

Her presentation will describe the adaptation of a video-based program for text message delivery to fathers in their first year of recovery from substance use disorders, the Fathering in Recovery intervention. Dr. Cioffi will also summarize the findings from the pilot randomized controlled trial (N = 41) and outcomes related to parenting self-efficacy, parenting practices, child behavior, father substance use, opioid cravings, and psychopathology symptoms. https://cpo.uoregon.edu/sites/default/files/2023-01/cpo-webinar_camille…

Date: November 17, 2022

Webinar Announcement

Description: This event focuses on preventing youth accidental overdose, presented by the Center on Parenting and Opioids, Lane County Public Health, and the University of Oregon Collegiate Recovery Center in collaboration with community partners. We will provide education and resources to help parents and youth feel confident preventing accidental overdose. 

Date: June 28, 2022
Speaker: Suzette Glasner, PhD

Description: This workshop focuses on recent advances in technology-based treatments for addiction, including digital health tools for overcoming substance use and cooccurring chronic conditions. Dr. Glasner will discuss lessons learned from multiple studies she has conducted involving the development and validation of digital interventions targeting treatment engagement, adherence, and substance use outcomes.

Date: May 17, 2022
Speaker: Kimberly Renk, PhD

Description: More attention needs to be given to evidence-based parenting programs for high risk families who are substance- and child welfare-involved. The overlap between parents’ substance- and child welfare-involvement has been evident for some time, as up to 69 percent of children who are removed from their homes and placed in out-of-home care have a substance-involved parent (e.g., AFCARS, 2019). Given that the youngest of children are over-represented in these estimates (USDHHS, 2012), the specific vulnerability of young children in high risk families should help guide our decisions in choosing evidence-based parenting programs for implementation. Given that substance-involved parents have difficulty building secure attachments with their young children, Circle of Security (CoS; Powell et al., 2009), an evidence-based, attachment-focused parenting program, may serve substance-involved families with young children well. Consequently, this webinar will outline the risks that young children of substance-involved parents face, the importance of secure attachment for fostering more positive outcomes for these young children, and the ways in which CoS can be best implemented with substance-involved parents in residential substance treatment programs. Field experiences that exemplify implementation as well as successes and difficulties across different programs in Florida will be included. 

Date: April 20, 2022
Speaker: Mishka Terplan, PhD

Description:  This webinar presented by Dr. Mishka Terplan will critically examine the literature on in-utero substance exposure and subsequent neurobehavioral development through the lens of human rights. Measurement, bias, and causality will be discussed alongside the concrete realities of stigma and prejudice to illustrate how scientific enquiry can operationalize discrimination and perpetuate inequities. “Old Questions” of drug effect and prevalence will be reframed and centered on dignity and justice to better support birthing people and their families. 

Date: March 10, 2022
Speaker: Marc Lewis, PhD

Description: This workshop presented by Dr. Marc Lewis will focus on new trends in addiction science including discussion of addiction as a developmental learning process strongly influenced by environmental impacts, especially traumatic experiences such as abuse, as well as societal challenges such as isolation, poverty and racism. 

Date: December 7, 2021
Speaker: Jenna Van Draanen, PhD, & Ronnie Grigg, Executive Director Zero Block Society

Description: This workshop will discuss methods of community engagement and community based research and lessons learned from partnerships established between researchers and harm reduction frontline workers in Vancouver, Canada. The session will cover methods of engagement, research team and study structure, and community-first dissemination strategies using an example of research conducted by the presenters.

Date: February 16, 2022
Speaker: Autumn Shafer, PhD

Description: This workshop focuses on lessons learned from multiple studies Autumn Shafer, PhD, has conducted using social media recruitment methods. Discussions will include best practices from the literature and her personal experience. With a pragmatic tone the workshop has the goal of helping other researchers to explore and apply social media recruitment within their studies for both generalized and specialty subject populations. Questions are welcome, and brief how-to demonstrations available (time permitting).

Date: November 30, 2021
Speaker: Deborah Cohen, PhD

Description: Implementation of Nurture Oregon began in the Fall 2020. Comagine Health is partnering with the Oregon Health Authority to support the implementation of this program. Oregon Health & Science University is studying how this program is implemented, who this program reaches, and to what effect. Sara Magnusson(Comagine Health, Research Associate II, Nurture Oregon project lead) and Deborah Cohen (OHSU, PI for Nurture Oregon study) will describe the counties and teams involved in the Nurture Oregon program, describe how the Nurture Oregon program differs from Project Nurture, and share early findings from the start-up and early implementation activities that teams have engaged in. 

Date: October 28, 2021
Speaker: Dr. Adrianne Huxtable

Description: This webinar will discuss how early life stressors, such as early life inflammation and maternal opioids, lead to changes in the central networks controlling breathing with lasting consequences into adulthood. 

Date: October 5, 2021
Speaker: Moira O'Neil, PhD

Description: This webinar will introduce participants to FrameWorks theoretical and methodological approach to framing, highlight the key findings from our communications research on framing harm reduction, will offer suggestions about what frames to use, which to avoid, and why, and will inspire participants to consider how to use the research in their own communications practice. The webinar will include ample time for questions and interactive exercises.

Link to Powerpoint

Date: May 2, 2021
Speaker: Dave DeGarmo, PhD

Description: CPO presents Dr. Dave DeGarmo. This workshop will focus on power analyses for gold standard two-arm intervention designs and more complicated RCTs. Content will cover longitudinal data and missingness, simulated data, and plotting functions. Materials will be provided and annotated for R and Mplus with interactive opportunities for participants to tailor syntax and functions.   

Date: May 6, 2021
Speaker: Amanda van Scoyoc, PhD

Description: CPO presents Dr. Amanda van Scoyoc who will provide an overview of how framing strategies can increase support for effective policies that address maternal addiction. She will discuss dominant patterns in public thinking in America based upon research by the Frameworks Institute. Listening to interviews with the public about this topic will identify strongly held beliefs about substance use during pregnancy and when parenting. She will then discuss framing strategies that increase collective thinking and problem solving. By the end of the workshop, attendees will have basic knowledge of how to use framing to discuss their own research and policy-related work. 

Date: May 20, 2021
Speaker: Yoel Everrett & Kayva Mudiam 

Description: CPO presents University of Oregon's Yoel Everett and Kavya Mudiam will share from the knowledge they gained at a CPO-funded workshop on State Space Grid (SSG) Analyses. The presenters will demonstrate by presenting some results from their project examining EMA data on the emotional experiences and social contexts of adolescents with mood and anxiety disorders.

Date: February 2, 2021
Speaker: Helena Rutherford, PhD

Description: CPO presents Dr. Helena Rutherford who will discuss the contribution of social neuroscience in providing a mechanistic framework to our understanding of the impact of addiction on parenting. Specifically, Dr. Rutherford will review the role of reward and stress neural circuits in parenting and addiction. Theoretical and empirical findings will be critically considered, including directions needed for future research.

Date: December 10, 2020
Speakers: Jean Kjellstrand, PhD & Miriam Clark

Description: CPO presents Dr. Jean Kjellstrand and Miriam Clark who will discuss their work adapting a coached parenting intervention for corrections-involved parents to better target those with an opioid use disorder history. More specifically, they will introduce us to the Coached Parent-Child (CPC) program, discuss challenges faced by re-entering parents with opioid use disorder, summarize what they've learned at the annual meeting of the Society of Social Work Research, and discuss the next steps regarding the pilot intervention to examine the feasibility and collect preliminary data.