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Community-Based Policies to Reduce Overdose and Other Drug-related Harm

by Amy Lieberman

Overview

June 3, 2024 | 1 – 2:00 p.m. CT

Attend this webinar, co-sponsored by the Network’s Harm Reduction Legal Project and ChangeLab Solutions, to learn about resources communities can employ to support selecting, adopting, and implementing policies to reduce overdose and other drug-related harm.

Law and policy experts will provide an overview of two recently published resources: Preventing Overdose and Reducing Drug-Related Harm: A Policy Guide for State and Local Change and Implementing State and Local Overdose Prevention Policies: A Resource for Navigating the Policy Process. Attendees will also hear from individuals working within their communities to implement harm reduction strategies and policies.

Additional Materials

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By attending this webinar, you will:

  • Learn how to use the above resources to support your work to identify, advance, and implement new harm reduction policies and strategies.
  • Obtain guidance on best practices for implementing policies.
  • Hear from leaders within a community-based organization about strategies they have utilized and challenges they have successfully addressed in working to make positive change in the lives of people who use drugs.

Speakers:

  • Amy Lieberman, J.D., Senior Attorney, Harm Reduction Legal Project, Network for Public Health Law
  • Liz Olson, MPP, Senior Policy Analyst, ChangeLab Solutions

Community Guest Speakers:

  • Annajane Yolken, Director of Strategy, Project Weber/RENEW
  • Dennis Bailer, Overdose Prevention Program Director, Project Weber/RENEW

Webinar Series: Policies to Reduce Overdose and Other Drug-related Harm
This webinar is one of a four-part series of webinars, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, designed to provide state and local decision makers, government agencies, public health practitioners, and community members with insight into tools and resources for selecting, adopting, and implementing policies to reduce overdose and other drug-related harm. Each webinar will cover policy selection and implementation and introduce the new resource tools; attendees are encouraged to attend the webinar that best reflects the sector they feel reflects their work. Future webinars will focus on the criminal/legal, healthcare, and K-12 school sectors.