Transforming PrEP Navigation and Empowering Patients through Long-acting Injectable PrEP

This webinar covers patient navigation touchpoints along the PrEP continuum for injectable lenacapavir, patient education strategies, expanding the capacity of PrEP navigation staff to implement injectable PrEP, and future opportunities for expanded implementation in mobile health settings.

Comprehensive, Evidence-Based, Consensus Guidelines for Prescription of Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain from the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP)

This webinar offers a focused overview of the 2023 Clinical Practice Guidelines from the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), highlighting evidence-based strategies for prescribing opioids to manage chronic non-cancer pain.

Crisis Management for Resilience and Adaptation in Times of Fiscal Uncertainty

Organizations must be prepared to navigate financial challenges in an era marked by economic
volatility with agility and foresight. This timely webinar explores effective crisis management
strategies to help leaders and teams build resilience, maintain operational continuity, and adapt to fiscal uncertainty.

Collaborating with CBOs to Enhance Harm Reduction Initiatives and Close Gaps in Services

This webinar will explore how community-based organizations can strengthen harm reduction efforts by working together to create a seamless network of support. By identifying service gaps and forming strategic partnerships within their immediate region, CBOs can offer a more comprehensive, wraparound approach to care—ensuring that individuals have continuous access to essential services like overdose prevention, housing support, healthcare navigation, and peer-led interventions.

CDC Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Pain

This webinar will cover the CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain, focusing on key recommendations, patient safety strategies, and practical approaches for effective pain management.

Navigating Medical Mistrust in Urgent Care and Emergency Departments

This webinar will address the critical issue of medical mistrust among individuals who use drugs, especially within the high-stress environments of emergency departments and urgent care centers. Many people who use drugs face unique barriers to receiving compassionate, non-judgmental care in these settings, often due to past experiences of discrimination, stigmatization, and misunderstanding.

Optimizing Outreach Data for Fiscal Health

This webinar highlights the importance of using multiple data sources to increase the efficacy of outreach, client engagement and program success.

Patient-Provider Relationship in Addressing Addiction

This module details effective patient-provider communication in addressing opioid use, misuse, and abuse. It identifies and describes models of communication, applying relevant content to the process of addressing opioid use disorders and the concern of stigma in clinical practice.

Social Justice/Language Justice Implications for Services and Retention in Care

This group discussion focuses on social justice and retention in care.

Social Justice/Language Justice

This plenary focuses on how to eliminate and replace stigmatizing language and negative bias while also using person-first language within communities of people who struggle with substance use disorder to increase access to services and successful retention in care.

Drug User Health in a Syndemic Environment

This session addresses challenges related to living and accessing services in a syndemic environment. It covers those strategies that ensure individuals are able to address co-morbidities.

All four 2023 Harm Reduction Conference training sessions must be taken to receive a total of 3.25 credit hours.

Understanding and Addressing Stigma and Discrimination in Addiction

This webinar will briefly review the new knowledge gained during the past 50 years. The faculty will describe the shifts in cultural understanding of addiction that have given rise to new research and approaches that can help reduce stigma and discrimination against people with substance use disorders.