Listening Sessions
Structured ways to gather meaningful feedback from individuals and families with lived experience.
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Lived Experience Integration for Substance Use Disorder Care
A practical framework, and a live training series, helping healthcare organizations integrate lived experience into efforts to improve care for pregnant and postpartum families affected by substance use disorder.
The challenge
Storytelling Alone Is Not Enough
Healthcare organizations working to improve care for pregnant and postpartum people affected by substance use disorder often struggle to move beyond awareness. Inviting people to share their stories is a start, but it is not the same as building structured, meaningful, sustained partnership.
LEI-SUD helps organizations close that gap. It provides the training, tools, and framework needed to integrate lived experience in ways that actually change care.
People are invited to share. They are rarely invited to lead.
How organizations use LEI-SUD
Three Ways to Put LEI-SUD Into Practice
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Train Your Team
Start with LEI-SUD training to help your team understand trauma-informed engagement, role clarity, and the principles of meaningful partnership.
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Build Your Infrastructure
Use the implementation tools to define roles, create support structures, and connect lived experience partners to real improvement work.
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Sustain the Partnership
Work with MoMMAs Voices to maintain engagement, support your partners, and continue integrating lived experience as your work evolves.
Related implementation tools
Related Implementation Tools
Every phase of LEI-SUD draws on the same core practices your team is already building. These resources support listening, screening, planning, and coping work across your partnership efforts.
Respectful Screening
Trauma-informed, person-centered approaches to substance use screening.
Explore ResourcePregnancy Planning
Shared decision-making conversations that honor personal goals, values, and experiences.
Explore ResourceCoping Mechanisms
Practical strategies supporting individuals and families through pregnancy and postpartum.
Explore ResourceLEI-SUD implementation framework
A Structured Path From Readiness to Systems Change
LEI-SUD moves organizations through four connected phases, each with its own tools, guidance, and resources for building lasting lived experience partnership.
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Building Readiness
Prepare partners and organizations with the tools, reflection, and research base for meaningful engagement.
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Building Trust
Create safe, respectful, relationship-centered engagement grounded in trauma-informed practice.
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Building Strategies for Engagement
Translate readiness and trust into concrete strategies for ongoing partnership and collaboration.
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Building Sustainable Partnerships & Systems Change
Embed lived experience into quality improvement, leadership, and long-term systems transformation.
ExploreWho This Training Supports
LEI-SUD was designed for teams and organizations working to integrate lived experience into systems improvement.
- Hospitals and health systems
- Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
- Quality improvement teams
- Patient engagement leaders
- Community organizations
- Researchers and implementation teams
Upcoming Training Dates
Live, facilitated LEI-SUD sessions held over Zoom. Each class meets weekly for 4 weeks. Sessions are not recorded, so plan to attend live to get the full training.
LEI-SUD Training — July
Starts July 16 • 3:00 PM EST
Live, facilitated session introducing meaningful partnership practices and trauma-informed lived experience integration. Meets weekly for 4 weeks.
Sessions are not recorded — please attend live to get the full training.
Register for JulySUD LEI Training — August
Starts August 11 • 3:00 PM EST
Live, facilitated session focused on sustainable integration, psychological safety, and systems improvement. Meets weekly for 4 weeks.
Sessions are not recorded — please attend live to get the full training.
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Ready to Bring LEI-SUD to Your Organization?
Whether you are starting a new initiative or strengthening an existing engagement model, MoMMAs Voices can help you identify the right next step for integrating lived experience into your SUD care improvement work.