Shaping the Future of Addiction Care

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Conference Overview

After a successful inaugural event earlier in 2024, Boston Medical Center's Grayken Center for Addiction is widening the reach of its second annual addiction conference. Together for Hope 2025, which will be taking place on April 16 and April 17, 2025 at the DCU Center in Worcester, will bring together substance use disorder experts and people with lived experience from all across Massachusetts.

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Together for Hope aims to convene people who work in the addiction space to collaborate, share innovations, and establish connections and community across Massachusetts. Everyone who works in the addiction field is welcome, including, but not limited to: Massachusetts-based physicians, social workers, nurses, physicians assistants, behavioral health clinicians, researchers, recovery coaches, peer support workers, harm-reduction specialists, and policymakers. We also warmly invite people with lived experience of substance use disorder and their families to join us.

The conference will include lively roundtable discussions, workshops centered on skill and career development, multidisciplinary panels, and presentations from leaders and innovators in the addiction space, focused on the themes of Recovery, Harm Reduction, Youth and Family, and Addiction Treatment.

Come join your colleagues from around the state for the exciting presentations and workshops that we are planning on:

• Navigating the risks of cannabis use in adolescents and young adults

• How to implement a treatment program for stimulant use disorder

• Demystifying the grant application process

• Implementing Plans of Safe Care: Stepping away from automatic DCF reporting of substance exposed newborns

• Intergenerational trauma and substance use disorders

• Tailoring addiction treatment for Native American patients

• How to move forward with implementing Overdose Prevention Centers—with or without legislation

• What have we learned about harm reduction from the MassHeal study, and where do we go from here?

• Crisis in the peer workforce

• Implementing contingency management

• Engaging with faith communities to support recovery

And many more!