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Compassionate Care for Infants and Families Affected by Perinatal Substance Exposure

  • February 08, 2020
  • 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • 130 Pembroke Road, Suite 100, Concord, NH 03301
  • 30

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A 6 hour training event with  Farrah Sheehan Deselle, MSN, RN   


8:30am – 4:00pm on February 8, 2020


SOR Scholarship Application 


PRESENTATION:  Exposure to substances of abuse can affect individuals across the lifespan, starting in utero.  This training will examine how to provide the best care for infants and families affected by perinatal substance exposure.  A brief review of addiction and its relationship to trauma will be examined.  The effects of opioid and other substance exposures in utero will be reviewed as well as recent national and local trends in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)/Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal (NOWS).   Safe sleep and the development and use of the Plan of Safe Care (POSC) in this population will be discussed.  Compassionate communication and specific skills to facilitate behavior change will be explored.  As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
  • Build skills to engage with families with compassion and from a trauma-informed lens.
  • Help promote equitable health care among families impacted by substance exposure.
  • Counsel mothers and families how to best care for their newborns after birth including through rooming-in, skin-to-skin contact, breastfeeding and access to community support.
  • Recognize their own biases regarding birth, parenting and substance use.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:  Farrah Sheehan Deselle, MSN, RN is a perinatal nurse educator and consultant whose work focuses on trauma informed care, birth trauma recovery and care for substance exposed infants and their families.  She provides services for individual families as well as education and consultation for professionals through her business, BirthingYou.  She is a certified Birthing From Within ™ Mentor and a Birth Story Listener ™.  She has served families in NH for over 20 years in home visiting, schools, community organizations and in hospital settings.  Farrah received her BSN from the University of Arizona and graduated from Gonzaga University with her MSN in Nursing Leadership.  Farrah developed a comprehensive perinatal education program and co-developed Roots for Recovery, a co-located prenatal care program for women with substance use disorder at a NH community hospital. She currently facilitates weekly groups for moms in recovery, provides lactation education and support and helps support families recovering from birth trauma.  She provides staff education and training as the Project Implementation Specialist for NH’s Eat Sleep Console Implementation Project to improve care for Opioid Exposed Newborns and their families, through Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and the Northern New England Perinatal Quality Improvement Network (NNEPQIN).  Farrah serves on NH’s Perinatal Substance Exposure Taskforce, and on the advisory board for MOms in REcovery (MORE), a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) awarded study.  She is the chair person for the board of directors for Birthing From Within International, and Postpartum Support International, NH Chapter.  

REGISTRATION FEENHADACA Members: $55. Non-Members: $65. NBCC: add $5.

Lunch will be on your own.   Scholarships are available for this training. Please apply using the SOR scholarship application link above.

MORE INFO:  603-225-706 or traininginstitute@nhadaca.org

6 Contact Hours Available
CRSW Performance Domains:
LADC/MLADC Categories of Competence: 14-16
CPS Domains: 6
NBCC: LICSW/L-MFT/LCMHC (Category A) & Psychologist (Category A)  
NH Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No 6754. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NHADACA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

PLEASE NOTE:  Only one registrant per form. For multiple registrants, you must register each one individually. Thank you!

This training is financed under a contract with the State of NH, Department of Health and Human Services, with funds provided in part by the State of NH and/or such funding sources as were available or required, e.g., the United States Department of Health and Human Services.


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