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[IN-PERSON WORKSHOP] Training of Trainers: Opioid Overdose Rescue (CEUs)
04.10.24 - 9:30 am–4:00 pm
Topic: Harm reduction, Opioids, Overdose, Training
Audience: Provider, Substance Use Services, Employees, Employers/worksites, Trainers (ToT)
[IN-PERSON TRAINING] Linking Reproductive Justice and Harm Reduction: Promoting Clients’ Bodily Autonomy (CEUs)
04.30.24 - 9:30 am–3:00 pm
Topic: Harm reduction, Health & Racial Equity, Policies, Stigma, Training
Audience: Provider, Substance Use Services, Employees, Employers/worksites, General public
9:30am – Check-in & Breakfast
10am – Training Begins
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 punishment. In this three-hour training, participants will explore the linkages between reproductive justice and harm reduction, while building the knowledge and skills to support any and all people who find themselves at the intersection of substance use, pregnancy, parenting, and reproductive health.
By the conclusion of this training, participants will:
– Understand the profound connection between reproductive justice, harm reduction, and other struggles for justice and equity.
– Understand the particular drug-related stigma that impacts pregnant/parenting people.
– Learn strategies to navigate systemic dangers targeting pregnant/parenting people who use drugs.
– Learn how to support a client in understand risks and developing a plan for safer or managed use before, during, and after pregnancy.
– Gain motivational interviewing skills to communicate with pregnant and parenting people who use substances.
– Gain supports for frontlines staff supporting this population considering it can be particularly difficult/emotionally sensitive work.
Continuing education units (CEUs) will be offered in partnership with Adcare Educational Institute.
For questions about this training, please contact Michael Leonard at [email protected].
For questions about CEUs, please contact Emelie Trayah at [email protected].
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[VIRTUAL TRAINING] Sharing Power with Youth: Building Relationships Through Harm Reduction (CEUs)
05.14.24 - 9:30 am–12:30 pm
Topic: Harm reduction, Health & Racial Equity, Policies, Stigma, Training
Audience: Provider, Substance Use Services, General public
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 to harm reduction, and do not respond well to “just say no” or abstinence only approaches to substance use prevention. Despite this, youth programming does not tend to embrace harm reduction or discuss harm reduction strategies with young people. Here in Boston, there are stories of a lack of access to treatment, harm reduction, and recovery. This training aims to equip service providers, youth workers, and other serving youth and working in substance use and/or harm reduction with practical skills related to positive youth development, motivational interviewing, and thinking about how they can incorporate more harm reduction messaging and approaches into their work with young people.
At the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Define and link the concepts of adultism, youth development, and harm reduction
- Understand the impact of the War on Drugs on youth and current drug policy
- Practice 1-2 strategies of motivational interviewing for talking to young people about substance use
- Gain skills to rewrite policies to be more inclusive of harm reduction when working with youth
Continuing education units (CEUs) will be offered in partnership with Adcare Educational Institute.
For questions about this training, please contact Michael Leonard at [email protected].
For questions about CEUs, please contact Emelie Trayah at [email protected].
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[IN-PERSON TRAINING] Opioid Overdose Rescue & Prevention (CEUs)
06.04.24 - 9:30 am–3:00 pm
Topic: Harm reduction, Opioids, Safety, Stigma, Training
Audience: Provider, Substance Use Services, Employees, Employers/worksites
9:30am – Check-in & Breakfast
10am – Training Begins
Opioid Overdose Rescue (Part 1)
Participants will learn about opioids and risk factors for overdose. They will then explore strategies for rescues and practices strategies through scenarios.
Learning Objectives:
- Name 5 risk factors for opioid overdoses
- Distinguish between someone who is really high versus overdosing
- Describe how to assess for opioid overdose
- Explain how naloxone works to reverse opioid overdoses
- Practice overdose response and how to administer naloxone
Opioid Overdose Prevention (Part 2)
Participants will explore strategies to address the risks of overdose with a harm reduction approach. The scenario-based training providers opportunities for discussion and practice about issues of safety, grief, and moving towards behavior change.
Learning Objectives:
- Name 2-3 principles of harm reduction
- Describe 4-5 different harm reduction strategies
- Explore the stages of change framework and how it can influence change talk/behavior
- Practice safety planning strategies
- Name 2-3 precautions to improve program safety
Continuing education units (CEUs) will be offered in partnership with Adcare Educational Institute.
For questions about this training, please contact Michael Leonard at [email protected].
For questions about CEUs, please contact Emelie Trayah at [email protected].