Utilizing Naloxone and Other Harm Reduction Strategies for Substance Use Treatment Providers

When: 08/12/2025 - 08/12/2025,
From: 9:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Location: Webex - Pre-Registration is Required!
Imparted by: Ka Chi Grace Wong, PhD SAPC’s-Clinical Standards and Training (CST) Branch
Visit: https://lacountyph.webex.com/weblink/register/rc41738d97a1031d28a56f8c046d16e07
Description:

IMPORTANT: After registration you will receive an email confirmation with your own unique link to use the to log into the training (do not share this link). The email will come from 
messenger@webex.com (please check your spam/junk email folders).

Who Should Attend:
This three hour and fifteen minutes (3:15) live virtual training is a free introductory training 
and is open to SAPC Network providers including:
• Registered and Certified Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Counselors
• LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs & Licensed Eligible (LE) AMFTs, ACSWs, APCCs
• Certified Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialists & Peer Support Specialists
• Psychologists & Registered Psychological Associates
• Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN) & Licensed Psychiatric Technicians (LPT)—Now offering CEs
• Registered Nurses & Nurse Practitioners—Now offering CEs

Training Description: This free, live virtual training focuses on the potential risks of overdose, specifically with opioid substances, and provides skills for recognizing and responding to an overdose safely. The training covers how to respond to an overdose with Naloxone, demonstrates techniques for administering Naloxone, and discusses other necessary steps to ensure health and safety when responding to an overdose. It also reviews current substance trends, particularly Fentanyl, harm reduction strategies, and Syringe Services Programs in Los Angeles County. This educational session is designed as a resource for specialty behavioral prevention and treatment providers working with youth, transitional age youth (TAY), and adult populations at risk of developing substance use disorders. Maximizing engagement techniques will also be explored. Participants will receive a variety of resources from Los Angeles County, including information about the Substance Abuse Prevention and Control's Substance Use Disorder (SUD) prevention and treatment provider network, as well as harm reduction and syringe services resources.
Participants will be engaged in group discussion, chat, and polls throughout the training

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of the training, participants will be able to:
1. Discuss two (2) risk factors that may increase the risk of overdose, specifically with 
opioids, and describe ways to utilize harm reduction strategies to decrease the risk.
2. Develop three (3) skills to effectively recognize and respond to individuals who may 
have overdosed on opioids, including the use of Naloxone.
3. Identify three (3) methods of engagement with individuals at risk for developing opioid 
use disorders, with a focus on those using intravenous opioids.
4. Evaluate three (3) harm reduction strategies including Naloxone along with
appropriate resources that are available to youth, transitional age youth and adults
within the substance use treatment continuum in Los Angeles County.