Tue, Mar 09
|Online via Zoom
Harm Reduction
Time & Location
Mar 09, 2021, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Online via Zoom
About The Event
Join us on Zoom March 9 at 1PM for a workshop on Harm Reducton. Use this link to join us:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrc-6qqzIqH924XoCvC50OoC4NOifU3Ck2
When you click on the link, you will be asked for your name and email. Please use your full name that you want on your certificate and the email address to receive it. If you don’t receive a certificate the week after training, please email Stephanie Bentley- sbentley@phoenixcenter.org
In this workshop participants will:
- Create a framework for opioid use disorder and overdose
- Review the physiology, history and demographics of opioid use disorder
- Discuss the wide range of options for users to treat opioid use disorder and reduce harm regarding their opioid use
- Define Harm reduction
- Review Naloxone and Naloxone administration
- Learn the benefits of Syringe Services Programs
- Review needle stick prevention and intervention
Facilitated by: Amy Upham, MPH, serves as the Opioid Response Coordinator for Buncombe County Health and Human Services. Before earning her MPH and Narrative Healthcare Certificate in 2019 from Lenoir Rhyne University, she worked for 17 years with people with mental health, substance use and developmental disabilities as a program manager, advocate, service coordinator and benefits counselor. She has delivered hundreds of hours of training on benefits advisement, housing first, anti-stigma, harm reduction, Narrative Healthcare, and trauma responsive care. In her current role, she oversees Syringe Services, a Post-Overdose Response Team, Hepatitis C Bridge Counseling and Re-entry efforts for those with Substance Use Disorder, including supervision of Certified Peer Support Specialists, Community Health Workers and Social Workers, and training of Community Paramedics. Amy sits on the Steering Committee for ANCHOR, a local housing first coalition, and has sat on the Boards of the Homeless Initiative Advisory Council, Helios Warriors (a Veterans alternative health provider), Autistics United, and I/DD Advocacy Coalition. She currently represents Health and Human Services on the Racial Equity Subcommittee of the Justice Resource Advisory Council and is lead on Buncombe County's Mental Health Steering Committee for the Community Health Improvement Process.