Course Description
Youth in foster care are disproportionately exposed to complex and high-risk psychotropic medication regimens, despite ongoing efforts to improve prescribing practices and medication oversight. This session will examine the factors contributing to current prescribing patterns, review evidence-based, BCPP-led approaches to psychotropic stewardships, and discuss the unique role of the BCPP in promoting safe and effective medication use. Participants will also explore barriers to integrating BCPPs into foster care teams and learn about state-level advocacy efforts aimed at expanding their involvement in this vulnerable population. Join this session to gain insight into how psychiatric pharmacists can help advance evidence-based care and improve mental health outcomes for youth in foster care.
Learning Objectives
- Explain reasons for the current state of psychotropic prescribing in foster care youth.
- Describe BCPP-led best practices to support evidence-based prescribing among foster care youth.
- Identify current barriers to BCPP integration on the foster care team.
- Outline state-based advocacy efforts to promote the inclusion of a BCPP on the foster care team.
Target Audience
If you are a pharmacist, nurse practitioner, or other health care professional involved in the comprehensive medication management of individuals living with mental health and/or substance use disorders, we invite you to participate in this online course.
Faculty
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Danielle L. Stutzman, PharmD, BCPP
Psychiatric Pharmacist
Pediatric Mental Health Institute, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Aurora, CO
Danielle Stutzman, PharmD, BCPP is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, an Assistant Adjoint Professor within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and serves as a Psychiatric Pharmacist at the Pediatric Mental Health Institute at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Dr. Stutzman received her bachelor’s degree (molecular cellular developmental biology and psychology) from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her doctoral degree (pharmacy) from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She completed two years of postdoctoral residency training in psychiatric pharmacy at the University of Southern California.
Course Requirements
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- Provide the necessary details in your profile to ensure correct reporting by AAPP to CPE Monitor.
Continuing Education Credit and Disclosures
Activity Dates: 4/5/2027-4/5/2030
ACPE Contact Hours: 1.0
ACPE Number: 0284-0000-##-###-###-P (Knowledge)
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The American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
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