[IN-PERSON] Supporting People Who Use Drugs: Strategies for Service Providers + De-Escalation Techniques for Challenging Situations (CEUs)

8:30am – Check-in

9am – First Training Begins

12pm – Lunch

1pm – Second Training Begins

Supporting People Who Use Drugs: Strategies for Service Providers (Part 1)

This three-hour training will offer participants an opportunity to explore reasons why people may use drugs, how we can assess risk using the “drug, set, setting” model, and how we can design our physical program spaces to support engagement among our participants and clients who use drugs.

Participants will be able to:   

1. Understand the intersection between harm reduction and recovery and name the similarities and differences between these two approaches  
2. Explore the societal context of drug use through the “drug, set, setting” model and develop an appreciation for the various reasons people use drugs  
3. Learn non-stigmatizing approaches to interacting with prospective program participants who use drugs and designing the physical program space   
4. Develop skills in the asking, listening, and informing strategy of motivational interviewing to hold conversations about drug use and harm reduction with clients/participants   

De-Escalation Techniques for Challenging Situations (Part 2)

This training is designed to build skills, best practices, and strategies to better support young people or adults in moments of escalation. It is vital for human service providers across fields to understand how trauma impacts the brain and often lies at the root of escalated incidents with clients or participants in programs. Utilizing a trauma-informed approach to de-escalation diminishes the chances of re-traumatizing people and builds up better coping mechanisms, encourages positive life-decisions, and allows for cohesive information sharing.

In this engaging and practical training module, we will focus on concrete ways we can better support our participants through escalated feelings.  We will also discuss how to build a program that is trauma-informed in order to reduce the likelihood of escalations happening and to ease the process of de-escalation when they do.

Participants will be able to:

1. Describe de-escalation techniques

2. Review strategies for dealing with challenging situations

3. Practice dealing with challenging situations

4. Identify strategies for trauma-informed care

The following continuing education units (CEUs) will be offered in partnership with Adept Educational Institute: CADC/CAC, LADC I, LADC II, LADC Assistant, RN/LPN, SW, LMHC

For questions about this training, please contact Michael Leonard at [email protected].

For questions about CEUs or training logistics, please contact Emelie Trayah at [email protected].

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