2024 Perinatal Substance Use

The Value of Peer Support to Birthing People

Peer Providers play an important role in supporting pregnant people with substance use disorder. Their ability to share their lived experience and capacity to understand what the pregnant person is facing provides them with a valuable perspective that complements the care provided by others. This presentation reviews some of the work Peer Providers have done in Wisconsin.

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Meet the instructor

Tanya Kraege, APSW, CSAC, MSW, CCAR Coach, CCAR Trainer, WICPS Trainer

Tanya Kraege is the Director of Peer Services at Safe Communities MDC, with 15 years in mental health and substance use work. She oversees peer-led recovery programs across southern Wisconsin, including Preg2Recovery and Jail2Recovery. A counselor, trainer, and advocate, Tanya uses her lived experience to inspire recovery and hope.


The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
  • Describe how Peer Providers fill in gaps in health care.
  • Describe stigma and bias as they pertain to substance use.
  • Describe how we can make a commitment to change.


Accreditation Statement

Continuing Medical Education

The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care (WAPC) designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Course Content

Planning Committee

No one in control of content has any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*

Course Information

This webinar was recorded on March 12, 2024.

The expiration date for this course is October 6, 2028.

*Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing health care products used by or on patients.