This educational session features a screening of Held and Healing, a documentary exploring race, substance use, incarceration, and maternal health. Through film, panel dialogue, and interactive discussion, correctional health professionals will examine barriers to perinatal care in custody, share trauma-informed solutions, and identify actionable strategies to improve maternal health outcomes. Attendees will gain insight and tools to promote equitable, evidence-based, and compassionate care for pregnant and postpartum women in correctional settings.

Educational Objectives

• Describe how systemic racism, incarceration, and substance use disorder interplay to influence maternal health outcomes. Met through the film screening and a moderated debrief that links lived experience with data and policy context.
• Identify barriers to effective and compassionate perinatal care in correctional settings and explore trauma-informed alternatives. Met through structured group discussion, reflection, and sharing of practical strategies from participants’ own facilities.
• Develop advocacy and implementation strategies that contribute to equitable and evidence-based maternal health policies in corrections. Met through interactive planning where participants create individual or team “next-step commitments."

Level: Basic