Description: Overview of Training This 1.5 hour interactive training for Massachusetts 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. Learning Objectives Participants will be able to:

1. Learn how workplace conditions may lead to injury, pain, and opioid use.
2. Identify workplace strategies to prevent injuries and manage pain.
3. Identify workplace strategies to support substance use treatment and recovery.
4. Learn about substance use prevention resources that can support your organization.

Registration is free, but required.

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Description:

Conventional narratives of the “opioid crisis” or “opioid epidemic” have often ignored the intimate connections between opioid use and alcohol use. One of the leading risk factors for opioid overdose is the mixture of opioids with other depressants, including alcohol. 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.

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Description:

When we recognize that recovery looks different for every person, we can better advise our clients. This 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.

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Description:

Overview of Training
This 1.5 hour interactive training for Massachusetts 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.

Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:

1. Learn how workplace conditions may lead to injury, pain, and opioid use.
2. Identify workplace strategies to prevent injuries and manage pain.
3. Identify workplace strategies to support substance use treatment and recovery.
4. Learn about substance use prevention resources that can support your organization.

Registration is free, but required.

REGISTER HERE

Description:

Many service providers are likely interacting with people who use drugs and/or people who are at risk for overdose. Being able to effectively support and engage with people who use drugs (PWUD) is vital in our work if we want to help keep our clients and participants safe from overdose and other adverse health effects. Collectively, there is a lack of comprehensive training on how we can effectively support this population, while being nonjudgmental and non-stigmatizing in our approach. This 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.

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Description:

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 training will focus on identifying our biases and societal stigma surrounding people who use drugs and actions we can take to address them.

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Description:

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 use and harm reduction. We rarely receive trainings on how to be effective supervisors, but holding and knowing the roles and responsibilities of a supervisor, in addition to being aware of the effects of secondary trauma in our staff, is vital in providing a supporting a nurturing environment; many fields may subject employees and supervisees to primary or secondary trauma. Effectively mitigating the effects of these traumas is also vital as a supervisor.

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Description:

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 are, what they do in the body, and how we can support people who use stimulants.

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Description:

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. Training topics include resilience,PTSD, compassion fatigue, and burnout.

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