A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
January 18, 2022
11:30 am–1:00 pm ET
This 1.5 hour session, titled "Addressing and Managing Loss and Grief in the OTP Setting" will be a presentation on identifying significant events that may result in staff grief such as overdose or suicide, the impact of drug overdoses, and developing strategies to support colleagues and themselves in the setting of patient loss.
Via Zoom
OBAT TTA+ and Spectrum Health Systems, Inc. are partnering to provide a series on addiction treatment in the Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) setting. This series will have five sessions covering a variety of topics that are offered twice.
This 1.5 hour session, titled "Addressing and Managing Loss and Grief in the OTP Setting" will be a presentation on identifying significant events that may result in staff grief such as overdose or suicide, the impact of drug overdoses, and developing strategies to support colleagues and themselves in the setting of patient loss.
This training will be held via Zoom. We would prefer that you log in using a computer with a web cam so that we can all connect to each other via video. Please note that signing on with video is required to receive CEs. If you do not have access to a web cam, please let us know.
OTP and OBAT staff providing treatment for substance use disorders in Massachusetts
Participants will be able to identify significant events that may result in staff grief including overdose and suicide.
Participants will be able to recognize the impact that drug overdoses have on patient’s families, caregivers, and other patients in treatment.
Participants will be able to develop strategies to support colleagues and themselves in the setting of patient loss.
Bureau of Substance Addiction Services
Continuing education credits are pending approval.
Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is a program of Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 514-bed academic medical center located in Boston's historic South End and the largest safety-net hospital in New England.
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