Learning Opportunities
COSSUP offers a wide range of learning opportunities to support the efforts of communities and practitioners addressing the illicit substance use and misuse. Whether it is a face-to-face convening, a peer-to-peer learning opportunity, or virtual learning via an upcoming webinar, we welcome your participation.
Upcoming Opportunities
Virtual Learning
Naloxone in Public Housing: Success in St. Louis
4/4/2024 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Naloxone in Public Housing: Success in St. Louis
In 2022, over a 36-hour period, St. Louis experienced the deadliest mass drug overdose event in the city's history, leading to 11 overdoses and 7 deaths. These overdoses occurred at Parkview Apartments, public housing run by the St. Louis Public Housing Authority. They were the result of accidental fentanyl consumption, a synthetic drug that hit Missouri’s drug supply in 2016 and has left a devastating imprint. This webinar will discuss the responsive cross-sector partnership that arose from this tragic event, which is focused on increasing outreach efforts to public housing facilities in St. Louis and lowering barriers for people to access life-saving naloxone and other health resources. The webinar will feature community health workers' and residents’ perspectives on the program’s benefits. There will be time for Q&A after the panel presentation.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will learn about the racial disparities in the current opioid overdose crisis in St. Louis and evidence that harm reduction approaches can save lives.
- Participants will understand the collaborative model developed to increase outreach and access to harm reduction tools inside public housing facilities.
- Participants will walk away with key learnings to navigate barriers such as local policy, substance use stigma, and community capacity.
This webinar will be recorded and ASL and live captioning will be provided. Certificates of participation will be provided to those who complete a post-event evaluation, but no CEUs are included in this event.
Please direct questions or concerns about HHRC training events to: info@hhrctraining.org
Meetings & Convenings - In-Person Events
Filling the Gaps in the Continuum of Care for Opioid Use: Opportunities and Strategies for Court Teams
7/20/2024 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
This one-day event will bring together judicially led teams of up to five participants. There is no fee for this program. Participants’ travel, lodging, meals, and other costs are funded in accordance with NCJFCJ's travel policy.
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This one-day event will bring together judicially led teams of up to five participants. There is no fee for this program. Participants’ travel, lodging, meals, and other costs are funded in accordance with NCJFCJ's travel policy.
Read More >>Filling the Gaps in the Continuum of Care for Opioid Use: Opportunities and Strategies for Court Teams
The opioid crisis hit a historic new height during the pandemic. In the 12-month period that ended in July 2023, 81,027 people died of an opioid overdose. To address this epidemic, communities need robust continuums of care to prevent and treat opioid use disorder. Judges and judicially led teams are in a unique position to advocate and promote services and resources that will serve the families in front of them as well as the community at large. This event will bring together judicially led multi-disciplinary court teams of four participants from jurisdictions across the country to learn about best practices and emergent solutions, prioritize their communities' gaps in care, and develop action plans to address those gaps in their communities. At the end of the training, participants will have a personalized and specific action plan to fill the gaps in care in their jurisdiction and the skills to enact their action plan.
This event will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 20, 2024.
Please contact the registrar, Gloria Torma, Program Specialist, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), at gtorma@ncjfcj.org if you have any questions.