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Structured training helps healthcare teams understand how to engage individuals with lived experience of SUD safely, respectfully, and effectively.
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Lived Experience Integration for Substance Use Disorder Care
A training and implementation program helping healthcare organizations meaningfully integrate the voices of individuals and families with lived experience of substance use disorder into maternal care improvement efforts.
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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.
What is LEI-SUD?
A Framework Built for SUD Care Improvement
LEI-SUD is a specialized application of MoMMAs Voices' Lived Experience Integration framework, designed specifically for healthcare organizations improving care for pregnant and postpartum people affected by substance use disorder.
Implementation Tools
Practical resources support organizations in building and sustaining lived experience partnership into care improvement workflows.
Partnership Infrastructure
LEI-SUD helps organizations create the roles, structures, and support systems that allow patient and family partners to contribute meaningfully.
Ongoing Support
MoMMAs Voices provides facilitation, consultation, and partnership coordination to help organizations implement and sustain the framework over time.
How organizations use LEI-SUD
Three Ways to Put LEI-SUD Into Practice
1
Train Your Team
Start with LEI-SUD training to help your team understand trauma-informed engagement, role clarity, and the principles of meaningful partnership.
2
Build Your Infrastructure
Use the implementation tools to define roles, create support structures, and connect lived experience partners to real improvement work.
3
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
Resources That Support the Work
Listening Sessions
Structured approaches to gathering meaningful feedback from people with lived experience.
Explore ResourcePregnancy Planning Tool
Supports informed decision-making that honors personal goals, values, and experiences.
Explore ResourceRespectful Screening
Trauma-informed, person-centered screening approaches for clinical teams.
Explore ResourceCoping Mechanisms Menu
Practical strategies to support individuals and families throughout pregnancy and postpartum.
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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.