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Attend a Webinar to Learn About Supporting First Responders Tackling The Opioid Crisis
Join the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program for their webinar “The Opioid Crisis: One State’s Approach to Supporting the Health and Wellness of Its First Responders” on November 6, 2019 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET.
The Opioid Crisis: One State’s Approach to Supporting the Health and Wellness of Its First Responders
Learn how first responders are becoming trauma-informed and hear the practical applications of putting trauma-informed strategies in place.
Webinar - From Child Welfare to the Juvenile Justice System: Disrupting the Abuse to Prison Pipeline For Girls
This webinar will examine how experiences of gendered violence create pathways for girls into the juvenile justice system, with an emphasis on crossover from the child welfare system into the juvenile justice system and how girls in the child welfare system are more susceptible to sexual exploitation.
COAP Webinar Series: The Opioid Crisis and Its Growing Impact on First Responder Health and Wellness
First responders such as law enforcement officers, firefighters, and emergency medical services (EMS) professionals provide life-saving services all day, every day. However, the nature of their work puts them in constant risk – physically, mentally, and emotionally. Compounding an already stressful job, first responders face the front lines of the opioid crisis and are being profoundly affected by it.