Together For Hope 2025: Shaping the Future of Addiction Care
Uniting Addiction Experts & Those With Lived Experience Across MA
Building on the success of our inaugural event, Boston Medical Center’s Grayken Center for Addiction is holding our second annual conference, Together for Hope 2025. Held on April 16-17 at the DCU Center in Worcester, the event will unite addiction experts and advocates from across the state to collaborate, share knowledge, and inspire hope in the fight against addiction.
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About the Conference
Together for Hope brings together professionals in the addiction field to collaborate, share innovations, and build community across Massachusetts. All are welcome, including physicians, social workers, nurses, behavioral health clinicians, researchers, recovery coaches, peer support workers, harm-reduction specialists, policy makers, and more.
We also warmly invite those with lived experience of substance use disorder and their families to join us.
What To Expect: A Sneak Peak at the 2025 Program
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.
Join colleagues from across the state for these exciting sessions:
The Crisis and Opportunity in the Peer Workforce
Speaker: Jon Soske, PhD
Lessons Learned from the HEALing Communities Study: A 4-State Community Engaged Effort to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths
Speaker: Alexander Walley, MD, MSc
Creating a Vision for What Methadone Treatment Could Look Like
Speaker: Ruth Potee, MD
Key Challenges in Harm Reduction: Overcoming the Role of Stigma in Access to Addiction Services
Are We Ready for What We Asked for? Parental Substance Use and Child Safety in a New Legislative Context in Massachusetts
Navigating the Risks of Cannabis Use in Youth and Adolescents
Infinite Pathways of Recovery
Employment Opportunities for Those in Recovery
Achieving While Healing: College Life in Addiction Recovery
How to Run a Recovery Support Group
Working with patients who have SUD and Brain Injury
How to Engage People with SUD Who Have Had Negative Experiences with Public Safety, Public Health, and Healthcare
Drug Checking in Practice: An Interactive Session on Drug Supply and Tools to Make Sense of It
Overdose Prevention in a Shifting Political, Legal, and Funding Landscape
Creating Harm Reduction Approaches that are Responsive to the Needs of the Black Community
Harm Reduction Intervention in Homeless Shelters
How to Implement and Organize SUD Treatment Groups in Medical Settings
How the CORI Second Level Review Process Can Support Hiring People with Lived Experience
Demystifying the Grant Application Process
Strengthening the Net for Youth and Families Impacted by Substance Use
Supporting Family Members to Cope with a Loved-One's Addiction or Loss
Supporting Clinicians: Fostering Hope in Massachusetts’ Statewide Addiction Efforts
Intergenerational Trauma and the Power of Family Work
Implementing a Program in Your Community to Support Pregnant and Post-partum Individuals who Have a History of SUD
Healthcare and Substance Use-Related Factors Affecting the Native Population
Addiction Treatment in Carceral Settings
How to Implement Treatment for Stimulant Use Disorder
Best Practices on Supporting Trans/Gender Diverse Patients in Settings of Addiction Rehab/Inpatient Treatment
Innovations in Extended-Release Injectable Buprenorphine
Outpatient Management of Alcohol Withdrawal
Publishing Addiction Research 101
Michael Curry, Esq.
Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
Andrea Joy Campbell
Attorney General of Massachusetts, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
“This is Treatment”
Elizabeth Addison
Composer, Creative Consultant, Storyteller, This is Treatment LLC
Together for Hope: Boston Addiction Conference 2024
Location
DCU Center
50 Foster Street
Worcester, MA
USA
Dates
Submission period:
November 21, 2024 - 8:33 AM EST - February 14, 2025 - 11:59 PM EST
Contact us
If you have any questions, please contact kristopher.warren@bmc.org