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- Location: Crowne Plaza, Louisville Airport Expo, Louisville, Kentucky
- Time: All Day
co sponsor: CECentral
CHES: up to 7.5 CECH
The Kentucky Overdose Prevention Summit will provide participants with a comprehensive overview of overdose prevention evidence-based public health approach that extends beyond syringe service programs. The Summit will highlight the full continuum of overdose prevention strategies, including risk reduction strategies and response, disease testing and prevention, safe use education, and linkage to addiction treatment and recovery services. Participants will explore current trends, data, and emerging issues related to the drug overdose epidemic in Kentucky and examine promising and evidence-based practices that improve health outcomes for people who use drugs (PWUD) and individuals diagnosed with Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Through expert-led sessions, practical examples, and collaborative discussion, the Summit aims to increase awareness, strengthen partnerships, and support the implementation of comprehensive risk reduction and overdose prevention strategies across communities statewide.
Target Audience
Overdose prevention navigators: peer navigators, certified peer recovery specialists, peer support specialists, case managers, patient navigators (Physicians, Pharmacists, Nurses, Social Workers, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors, Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor), community health workers, persons with lived experience, and other individuals who link people who use drugs to overdose prevention resources, substance use disorder treatment, and/or recovery support services.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify the need for, and types of, recovery support and overdose prevention services.
- Describe how the Social Determinants of Health framework informs risk reduction and overdose prevention approaches.
- Apply evidence-based policies, programs, practices, and procedures when training and supporting overdose prevention care navigators.
- Explain the role of overdose prevention care navigators, including adult peer support specialists, within comprehensive overdose prevention programs.
- Develop strategies to promote community-centered and accessible approaches for vulnerable, at-risk, and underserved populations receiving risk reduction and overdose prevention services, including but not limited to individuals who are experiencing homelessness, mothers, survivors of gender-based violence, and individuals with mental health disorders.
- Describe integrated prevention and treatment models that support health access, linkage to care, medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), prevention education, and infectious disease testing through Syringe Services Programs (SSPs).
click here to register and for additional information
Sponsored by Department of Public Health, Western Kentucky University, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 7.5 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available are 0. Continuing Competency credits available are 0. Provider ID# 105862 Event ID# 61078-61104.
- Location: Crowne Plaza, Louisville Airport Expo, Louisville, Kentucky
- Time: All Day
co sponsor: CECentral
CHES: up to 7.5 CECH
The Kentucky Overdose Prevention Summit will provide participants with a comprehensive overview of overdose prevention evidence-based public health approach that extends beyond syringe service programs. The Summit will highlight the full continuum of overdose prevention strategies, including risk reduction strategies and response, disease testing and prevention, safe use education, and linkage to addiction treatment and recovery services. Participants will explore current trends, data, and emerging issues related to the drug overdose epidemic in Kentucky and examine promising and evidence-based practices that improve health outcomes for people who use drugs (PWUD) and individuals diagnosed with Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Through expert-led sessions, practical examples, and collaborative discussion, the Summit aims to increase awareness, strengthen partnerships, and support the implementation of comprehensive risk reduction and overdose prevention strategies across communities statewide.
Target Audience
Overdose prevention navigators: peer navigators, certified peer recovery specialists, peer support specialists, case managers, patient navigators (Physicians, Pharmacists, Nurses, Social Workers, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors, Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor), community health workers, persons with lived experience, and other individuals who link people who use drugs to overdose prevention resources, substance use disorder treatment, and/or recovery support services.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify the need for, and types of, recovery support and overdose prevention services.
- Describe how the Social Determinants of Health framework informs risk reduction and overdose prevention approaches.
- Apply evidence-based policies, programs, practices, and procedures when training and supporting overdose prevention care navigators.
- Explain the role of overdose prevention care navigators, including adult peer support specialists, within comprehensive overdose prevention programs.
- Develop strategies to promote community-centered and accessible approaches for vulnerable, at-risk, and underserved populations receiving risk reduction and overdose prevention services, including but not limited to individuals who are experiencing homelessness, mothers, survivors of gender-based violence, and individuals with mental health disorders.
- Describe integrated prevention and treatment models that support health access, linkage to care, medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), prevention education, and infectious disease testing through Syringe Services Programs (SSPs).
click here to register and for additional information
Sponsored by Department of Public Health, Western Kentucky University, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 7.5 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available are 0. Continuing Competency credits available are 0. Provider ID# 105862 Event ID# 61078-61104.
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