Please join us to explore this crucial topic with Amy Joy Myers, MSW LCSW IMH-E ® from the Yale Child Study Center.

Substance use treatment rarely approaches adults in their roles as parents even as national data reveals that many people who misuse substances are parenting and the literature suggests that being a parent is a strong motivation for substance recovery. Parents who are identified as substance users face discrimination, stigma and barriers that can characterize them as indifferent people who lack the capacity to care for their children. This is especially true for mothers who use substances during pregnancy. The intersection of parenting and substance misuse offers a unique and powerful opportunity for intervention that impacts two generations. The opportunity can be maximized by engaging parents utilizing approaches informed by early-childhood mental health and attachment, and by the neurobiology of recovery.

Participants of this webinar will be able to:

• Recognize parenting as a pathway to recovery
• Consider neurobiology when viewing parents in early recovery
• Enhance understanding of trauma-informed and relational approaches when supporting parents with substance use disorders
• Highlight ways to hold children in mind when working with parents with substance
  use disorders

This webinar is for all of those working in the perinatal period as well as children birth to 5 and their families.

Date & Time

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM ET

Monday, March 2nd, 2026