Emergency Service Providers

    Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (COAP) Resource Center Webinar Series: Handle With Care

    This webinar will showcase innovative best practices to mitigate the negative effects experienced by children exposed to trauma—including an arrest or incident related to opioid use—and will highlight the Handle With Care initiative. This promising initiative partners schools and childcare agencies, law enforcement, and treatment providers to promote safe and supportive homes, schools, and communities with the goals of protecting children and helping traumatized children heal and thrive.

    National Center for Victims of Crime

    The National Center for Victims of Crime (NCFVOC) is a nonprofit organization that advocates for victims' rights, trains professionals who work with victims, and serves as a trusted source of information on victims' issues. After more than 25 years, NCFVOC remains the most comprehensive national resource committed to advancing victims' rights and helping victims of crime rebuild their lives.

    First Responder Burnout Prevention Webinar

    The Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program team invites you to this no-cost webinar on Thursday, October 11 at 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET.

    Please register to reserve your spot!

    This webinar will examine the causes of first responder burnout with consideration given to stresses arising from response to the opioid epidemic.

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    Webinar - Helping Victims of Mass Violence & Terrorism: 48 Hours and Beyond

    This September, the Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center will launch an important two-part webinar series that will highlight significant actions needed to help communities prepare and respond appropriately to assist victims in the first few days after a mass violence tragedy occurs. 

    Webinar - Helping Victims of Mass Violence & Terrorism: The First 24 to 48 Hours

    This September, the Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center will launch an important two-part webinar series that will highlight significant actions needed to help communities prepare and respond appropriately to assist victims in the first few days after a mass violence tragedy occurs. 

    Webinar - Strategies for Reaching Overdose Survivors, Including Peer Support

    Communities across the country are employing innovative approaches to counter the rising number of overdose deaths. This webinar will introduce nontraditional responses to overdoses with a focus on the use of peer support specialists – individuals with lived experience who are themselves in recovery. Peer support specialists engage with survivors soon after their overdoses and remain an important resource to the individuals in navigating life in their communities, including facilitating access to treatment and other services.

    Webinar - Fire/EMS as Partners in Early Diversion Strategies

    Fire/Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is an essential partner in front-end responses to people with behavioral health conditions, including mental health and substance use crises. This webinar will focus on the ways that Fire/EMS can be partners with behavioral health providers and other first responders on early diversion initiatives.

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    Child Protector App: An Investigative and Educational Tool

    Learn more about Child Protector, a free application designed to improve the investigative, administrative, and judicial handling of child physical abuse cases, as well as child fatalities, in a manner that reduces trauma to the child and family.

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