Drug User Groups and Community Resilience 

What we’ll explore:

• Functions that drug user groups play for drug users, and for their communities.
• Outcomes, impacts and influences from drug user group involvement: Individual Citizens, Professionals, Community Organizations.
• What’s the evidence? How do drug user groups support community wellness?
• Planning: How can Abbotsford respond to the overdose crisis? Who should be involved and how? Next steps.

A light breakfast and full lunch is included.

IF REGISTRATION IS CLOSED, PLEASE EMAIL brian@impactabby.com WITH "DEC 6 WAITLIST" IN THE SUBJECT LINE TO BE ADDED TO THE WAITLIST.

NOTE, THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THIS EVENT.

Contributing Organizations:

• BC/Yukon Associations of Drug War Survivors (BCYADWS)
• Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
• Rural Empowered Drug User Network (REDUN)
• BC Association of People on Methadone (BCAPOM)
• Society of Living Illicit Drug Users (SOLID)
• Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society (WAHRS)
• SALOME NAOME Association of Patients (SNAP)
• Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs (CAPUD)
• Valley Youth Partnership for Engagement and Respect (VYPER)

Supporting Organizations:

• Fraser Health Authority
• BC Centre for Disease Control - Peer Engagement and Evaluation Project (PEEP) 
• BC Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General - Opioid Dialogues Fund 
• Overdose Prevention and Education Network (OPEN) - Community Action Initiative
• Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSUA)
• University of the Fraser Valley - Criminology Department
• Centre for Addiction Research of BC (CARBC)
• Moms Stop the Harm (MSTH)

Coordinating Organizations:

• Sara for Women
• University of the Fraser Valley 
• Abbotsford Community Services
• Impact Youth and Family Substance Use Services

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