This toolkit addresses criminalization due to alleged substance use during pregnancy. It provides concrete strategies for criminal legal system practitioners that reflect a public health approach, emphasizing evidence-based solutions, not punitive measures. By adopting these strategies, we create safer, healthier communities and promote better outcomes. Download the toolkit to explore the solutions.

Watch the toolkit companion video to hear directly from a prosecutor, a woman with lived experience, and a doctor as they give their perspectives on how this approach helps pregnant people.

 

And watch our toolkit webinar, featuring Physicians for Reproductive Health President and CEO Dr. Jamila Perritt, former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, Pregnancy Justice Senior Vice President Dana Sussman, and Vital Strategies’ Kate Boulton.