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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.

This full-day workshop will provide space for individuals and agencies to think critically and practically about implementing new policies and practices, navigate barriers to implementation, address stigma, and develop a clear workplan. Prior to the workshop, participants should complete our core 4-hour training on opioid overdose ​rescue and prevention and review the OPRP publication.​

This workshop is perfect for groups of 10-20 people. You can schedule a session for your agency by contacting Michael Leonard at [email protected]

This three-hour training will explore the definition and impacts of alcohol use, recognizing the spectrum of use from abstinence to addiction. Specifically, we will examine the social determinants of alcohol use and seek to understand and challenge inequities (e.g.racial, gender-based, etc.) in treatment and recovery.

This training for employers will describe how workplace conditions may lead to injury, pain, and opioid use, explore strategies to create a work environment that will help prevent opioid use and addiction, and identify workplace strategies that support treatment and recovery.

This training can be tailored for Employers, Employees, and Trainers.

This two-day workshop will empower individuals to deliver training in opioid overdose rescue and prevention to their own staff and peers. Organizations will benefit from additional knowledge and capacity to provide this training internally over time. Participants must complete the Opioid Overdose Rescue & Prevention training sessions prior to attending the training of trainers.

This workshop is perfect for groups of 10-20 people. You can schedule a session for your agency by contacting Michael Leonard at [email protected]

This three-hour, non-clinical training module is designed to educate and build skills around understanding secondary trauma and cumulative stress with a specific focus on improving the wellness and safety of service providers working in direct care with people who use drugs. Training topics include supporting resilience and preventing secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout.

This three-hour, non-clinical training is intended to provide supervisors with the best practices and tools for nurturing and supporting staff who work in substance use, harm reduction, homeless services, and other social service fields, with a particular emphasis on supervisory support following workplace incidents

As drug use evolves in Massachusetts and beyond, we need to be prepared to support clients no matter what substances they use. In this three-hour training, learn the basics of what stimulants are, what they do in the body, and how we can support people who use stimulants.

When we recognize that recovery looks different for every person, we can better advise our clients. This three-hour training will introduce various forms of recovery, from medication to 12-step programs to cognitive based therapies. Participants will also explore stigma around recovery and how to best support our clients.

This three-hour training will explore the historical sources of criminalization and punitive attitudes surrounding drug use in the United States, including an in-depth examination of the racialized drug policies of the War on Drugs.

Drug-related stigma presents barriers to effectively supporting clients who use drugs. Our biases are learned from a culture that stigmatizes drug use and ostracizes those with substance use disorders. This three-hour training will focus on identifying our biases and societal stigma surrounding people who use drugs and actions we can take to address them.

During this two-hour training, participants will explore strategies to address the risks of overdose with a harm reduction approach. The scenario-based training provides opportunities for discussion and practice about issues of safety, grief, and moving toward behavior change.

This two-hour training will introduce opioids and risk factors for overdose. Participants will learn skills for overdose rescue and practice using scenarios.