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The CT Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services (DMHAS) Latino Outreach Program provides regional community outreach services designed to reduce the stigma that surrounds substance use in the Latino community. Latino Outreach workers provide informational sessions and training in traditional settings such as social service agencies as well as non-traditional settings within the Latino community to raise awareness on overdose prevention and substance use programs.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Substance Abuse; Outreach
Audience Community Organizations; Residents
Region Fairfield County, CT; CT

Training

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In this webinar, panelists will provide a brief overview of Xylazine, a substance newly found in illicit drug supplies, and its impacts on the unsheltered community. Panelists will share their lived expertise with xylazine, its effects, organizational best practices for wound care, overdose response, and harm reduction.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Health
Audience Community Organizations

Training

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Health
Audience Community Organizations
Region CT

Training

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Agenda includes: RRH and Susbtance Use, Changing Behavior, Motivation for Change, Harm Reduction

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Rapid Rehousing
Audience Community Organizations
Region CT

Training

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Supportive Housing; Substance Abuse
Audience Community Organizations
Region CT

Training

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This recorded webinar talks about communities that are developing innovative programs to address the needs of people experiencing opioid addiction and, in particular, those who are also experiencing homelessness or housing instability.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Health
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

Training

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Discuss the need for trauma-informed care across outreach and engagement efforts and services. Identify the different purposes and types of outreach that are provided in response to homelessness. Describe key skills for engaging with people experiencing homelessness in a trauma-informed manner. Explain how outreach and engagement efforts help address mental health and substance use needs for those experiencing homelessness.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Outreach; Crisis Intervention; Substance Abuse
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Substance Abuse; Health
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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