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[Cohort] Improving Overdose Safety at Work: A Public Health Learning Cohort
Health Resources in Action’s Behavioral Health and Racial Equity Initiative, or BeHERE, is proud to announce the launch of Improving Overdose Safety at Work: A Public Health Learning Cohort focused on overdose prevention, response, […]
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[Workshop] Reflecting on Grief & Loss: A Grounded Workshop for Service Providers (5-6 hours)
[VIRTUAL TRAINING] Linking Reproductive Justice and Harm Reduction – Promoting Clients’ Bodily Autonomy (CEUs)
The fight for reproductive justice shares profound similarities with the movement for harm reduction. These decades-old, grassroots struggles advocate for the protection of individual bodily autonomy from violation, surveillance, and […]
[VIRTUAL TRAINING] Sharing Power with Youth – Building Relationships Through Harm Reduction (CEUs)
Recent studies show a dramatic increase in drug overdose deaths among American teenagers as fentanyl contamination becomes more prevalent in drugs used by young people. Young people are very receptive […]
[IN-PERSON TRAINING] Working with People Who Use Stimulants (CEUs)
As drug use changes and evolves in Massachusetts and beyond, we need to be prepared to support clients no matter what substances they use. Learn the basics of what stimulants […]
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[IN-PERSON TRAINING] Challenging Narratives: Understanding Alcohol Use from an Equity Lens (CEUs)
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 […]
[IN-PERSON TRAINING] Supporting People Who Use Drugs: Strategies for Service Providers (CEUs)
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 […]
[VIRTUAL TRAINING] Analyzing the U.S. War on Drugs & Racist Drug Policies (CEUs)
This three-hour professional development module is intended to educate different service providers, community members, coalitions, and other entities on the War on Drugs and how it has fostered racialized drug […]
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[IN-PERSON SUMMIT] Resiliency for Service Providers
REGISTER Resiliency for Service Providers: How Can Our Community Process Grief and Promote Healing in Times of Loss? Wednesday, June 14th 9:30am-3:00pm AC Hotel by Marriott, Worcester 125 Front […]
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[Publication] BeHERE Training 2022 Evaluation – Executive Summary
This Executive Summary discusses the evaluation of BeHERE trainings delivered between April 2020 and June 2022. In 2022, HRiA engaged evaluation consultant Hope Worden Kenefick, MSW, PhD and MPH candidate […]
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[VIRTUAL TRAINING] Secondary Trauma and Helping Professionals
This non-clinical training module covers secondary trauma and cumulative stress with a specific focus on wellness and safety for service providers working in direct care with people who use drugs. […]
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[VIRTUAL TRAINING] Exploring Pathways of Recovery
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 […]
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[IN-PERSON TRAINING] – Addressing Drug-Related Stigma & Bias (CEUs)
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 […]
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[VIRTUAL TRAINING] Opioid Overdose Prevention (Part 2 of 2)
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 […]
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[VIRTUAL TRAINING] – Supporting People Who Use Drugs: Strategies for Service Providers (CEUs)
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 […]
[VIRTUAL TRAINING] Challenging Narratives: Understanding Alcohol Use from an Equity Lens (CEUs)
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 […]
[VIRTUAL TRAINING] Opioid Overdose Rescue (Part 1 of 2)
This two-hour training will introduce opioids and risk factors for overdose. Participants will learn skills for overdose rescue and practice using scenarios. Part 1 of 2. Click here to register. […]
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[Workshop] Promising Policies & Practices in Overdose Prevention, Response, & Postvention (5-6 hours)
VIRTUAL TRAINING: Secondary Trauma and Helping Professionals
This non-clinical training module covers secondary trauma and cumulative stress with a specific focus on wellness and safety for service providers working in direct care with people who use drugs. […]
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VIRTUAL TRAINING: Working with People Who Use Stimulants
As drug use changes and evolves in Massachusetts and beyond, we need to be prepared to support clients no matter what substances they use. Learn the basics of what stimulants […]
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VIRTUAL TRAINING: Best Supervisory Practices: Working through Incidents & Crises (w/CEUs)
This non-clinical supervision training is designed to educate and build skills around best supervisory practices for people who are working in direct human services and social services fields, including substance […]
VIRTUAL TRAINING: Addressing Drug-Related Stigma & Bias
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 […]
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Community Naloxone Purchasing Program
This program aims to fill gap between pharmacies and OEND programs through a streamlined system to order naloxone from the state. […]
Housing as Harm Reduction Webinar
March, 30, 2022. The Opioid Overdose Prevention Training Project (now part of HRiA’s BeHERE Initiative), held their 11th successful summit, Housing as Harm Reduction: Exploring Models to Support People Who […]
Illinois Helpline – Medication Assisted Recovery (MAR) resources for clinicians
This site offers support for Illinois-based clinicians providing MAR, also known as Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD). In the Toolkits, watch quick video guides for clinicians providing MAR and […]
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[Training] Preventing Injury, Pain & Opioid Use in the Workplace
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 […]
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Vermont Helplink
VT Helplink is your statewide, public resource for finding substance use treatment and recovery services in Vermont. Helplink services are free and confidential. Our caring, trained Specialists will help you […]
Massachusetts Substance Use Helpline
The Helpline is the only statewide, public resource for finding substance use treatment, recovery, and harm reduction services in Massachusetts. Helpline services are free and confidential. Our caring, trained Specialists […]
Illinois Helpline for Opioids & Other Substances
The IL Helpline is the only statewide, public resource for finding substance use treatment and recovery services in Illinois. The IL Helpline serves people using opioids and other substances, with […]
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Engaging service providers as harm reductionists: Learning to implement harm reduction strategies amidst organizational and institutional barriers
This abstract describes a presentation from the APHA 2020 annual conference where we shared a framework of harm reduction and explore the ways that organizations can implement harm reduction practices […]
Nothing For Us Without Us: Peer-Based Recovery Is The Latest In A Long History Of Consumer-Driven Movements
This blog post describes a growing movement that is revolutionizing how we approach substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and view recovery – changing our language, helping to remove stigma, and […]
Social Distancing and Recovery from Substance Use
This article explores how people can continue in their recovery and stay healthy and how loved ones can help during this or any future public health crisis. […]
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Naloxone/overdose prevention
Everyone can play a role in preventing overdose. People who actively use opioids, friends and family, first responders, and even community members can help prevent and stop overdose. This page […]
Naloxone facts and formulations
This page provides facts about naloxone (Narcan) and guidance on how to obtain and use it to reverse overdose. […]
[Workshop] Training of Trainers – Opioid Overdose Rescue and Naloxone Administration (5-6 hours)
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[Training] Best Supervisory Practices: Working through Incidents & Crises (3 hours)
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 […]
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[Training] Exploring Pathways of Recovery (3 hours)
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 […]
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[Training] Addressing Drug-Related Stigma and Bias (3 hours)
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 […]
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[Training] Opioid Overdose Prevention: Harm Reduction & Safety Planning with Clients (2 hours)
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[Training] Opioid Overdose Rescue (2 hours)
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RIZE Toolkit: Your Rights in Recovery
Recovery from opioid use disorder (OUD) is a life-long journey and can look different for everyone. Wherever you are in your recovery, this toolkit offers the support and resources people […]