Exhibitors

The BC Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programs (BCAPOP) is a registered charity with over 70 Program Members and over 550 perinatal professionals and peers, each unique in their own approach, services, and populations served. BCAPOP is widely recognized for its support, advocacy, and leadership to improve outcomes for pregnant, postpartum, and newly parenting people and their infants. BCAPOP achieves this by distributing prenatal vitamins & resources to non-profit perinatal programs in BC, providing training, resources and events for helping professionals & peers, and responding to gaps in services with provincial programs such as the Healthy Care Pregnancy Program and The Pregnancy HUB.

The Doulas for Aboriginal Families Grant Program (DAFGP), delivered by the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres, provides financial support to Indigenous families for full-spectrum doula services. The goal of the program is to increase healthy birth outcomes for Indigenous families by removing the cost barrier to accessing doula supports and bringing the birthing process closer to home.

Karis Support Society, located in Kelowna, BC, is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing shelter, support, and resources to women and children experiencing homelessness and domestic violence.

BC Women’s Hospital has established a Perinatal Mental Health & Substance Use (MHSU) Engagement Network to improve the services we fund for those experiencing mental health and/or substance use challenges during the perinatal period (pregnancy and postpartum or post birth). We recognize the important of lived experiences in shaping our services. This network, including the focus groups and social events, is lead by a Peer Engagement Lead and Patient & Family Advisors who are people with lived and/or living experience with substance use.

The UBC Reproductive Infectious Diseases (RID) Program is a network of health professionals, researchers and knowledge users dedicated to advancing reproductive infectious diseases care and research. Through local, national and global research collaborations, the team works to address emergent knowledge gaps and provide guidance for the prevention, treatment, and care of reproductive infectious diseases. Our research areas of focus include: COVID-19 infection during pregnancy and the postpartum period, HIV, human papillomavirus, hepatitis, perinatal infections, the vaginal microbiome, and antimicrobial stewardship.

 

In response to the rising incidence of syphilis in Canada, one of our focuses is maternal syphilis, or syphilis infection in pregnancy, which can cause stillbirth, neonatal death, and congenital syphilis. We are undertaking a project focused on national surveillance of maternal and congenital syphilis, implementation of an enhanced care model in BC, and knowledge mobilization to increase awareness about this crisis among the public and healthcare providers.

PHSA’s Perinatal Services BC (PSBC) is a Health Improvement Network, a provincially led network created to support province-wide system planning and drive improvement across the BC health care system to ultimately optimize health outcomes and achieve the quintuple aim of improved patient experience, better patient outcomes, lower costs, improved provider experience, and overall health equity. PSBC collaborates with system partners to co-create and disseminate the latest in culturally safe, evidence-based practice across the province. Examples of this work in the perinatal substance use space include Care of the Newborn Exposed to Substances during Pregnancy and Trauma-Informed Care for Women/People during the Perinatal Period. Please visit the Perinatal & Newborn Health Hub (www.psbchealthhub.ca) for these and many more resources to support caring for this vulnerable population.

Together We Can – Located in Metro Vancouver, TWC’s mission is to educate and support people and their families who struggle with the challenges of substance misuse and desire a new life in recovery. TWC is one of Canada’s leading non-profit treatment centres where people can truly begin to create change in their lives and rebuild their family relationships.

If you would like your organization to exhibit at PPSUP 2024, we would love to hear from you! Please email the PPSUP Registration Manager to submit your request.

Exhibiting partners will receive:

  • 1 complimentary registration pass
  • 1 x 6’ draped table
  • 2 x chairs
  • Opportunity to showcase your organizations work to delegates of PPSUP
  • All meals as part of the conference
  • Attend all conference sessions including Keynotes, Workshops and Concurrent Sessions