Special Webinar Series
Between February and June 2022, Praxis is offering a free webinar training series for all BSAS funded treatment providers. If you are not able to attend the live sessions, recordings of these webinars will be posted on this webpage for you to view at a later time or share with colleagues. We encourage you to register for all of the trainings that interest you!
Questions? Email praxis@c4innovates.com.
Please note: no certificates or continuing education credit will be provided for these webinars.
Webinar Recordings
Listen or re-listen to videos of past webinars in this series.
- Wellness and Recovery (recording from a February 11, 2022 webinar): Participants examine how health and wellness impact recovery for those with substance use disorders and learn about ways to support healthy behaviors.
- Substance Use Disorders and Trauma: Implications for Treatment and Recovery (recording from a February 23, 2022 webinar): Trainers present specific challenges and examples of services including treatment and supports that help people with co-occurring substance use disorder and traumatic stress find relief from symptoms and build lives of purpose and meaning in recovery.
- Realistic Self-Care (recording from a March 11, 2022 webinar): Trainers discuss what defines self-care, what gets in the way, and how we can adjust our thinking and actions to get back on track or start a new, compassionate pathway forward.
- Self-Advocacy: Having Our Own Backs (recording from a March 23, 2022 webinar): Trainers talk about the challenges within the treatment systems during these unprecedented times, identify the gaps that are popping up for workers and clients/patients, and discuss ways to help consumers and their families build in some safety nets for tracking their own care.
- Stigma and Bias (recording from an April 8, 2022 webinar): Trainers focus on the primary types of stigma, the influence of bias, and strategies to reduce and mitigate the impact.
- Implementing and Measuring Harm Reduction Practices (recording from an April 27, 2022 webinar): Trainers present strategies for implementing harm reduction practices and for collecting meaningful data to evaluate the effectiveness and reach of the services.
- Working with Clients with a History of Incarceration (recording from a May 13, 2022 webinar): Trainers provide insight into working with justice-involved individuals and discuss how the long-lasting effects of incarceration can play out in client's lives in relation to re-entry, trauma, race, addiction, incarceration, and mental health.
- Urban Trauma 101 (recording from a May 25, 2022 webinar): Trainers illustrate how individuals who are directly impacted by urban trauma can be unaware. We offer participants an opportunity to learn how easily one can become numb to violence.
- How to Talk to your Clients about PEP & PrEP (recording from a June 10, 2022 webinar): PrEP and PEP, medications aimed at preventing HIV, are underutilized by people with substance use disorders despite showing high efficacy. Trainers provide an overview of these medications and discuss how providers can facilitate motivational conversations with at-risk clients to promote access and adherence to these life-saving interventions.
- How to Support Staff Post Overdose (recording from a June 22, 2022 webinar): A webinar to help prepare providers to respond to overdose deaths in their program or organization. Trainers discuss strategies to cope and connect to others in face of the vicarious trauma caused by overdose deaths.
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