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HEALING FIRE

April is Alcohol Awareness Month! Please join our first Healing Fire of the year for testimonies and giveaways. Let’s support our community!

Drumming provided by Scotty Reels, food and drinks provided!

Date: April 19th, 2024

Location: Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Pow Wow Grounds, 483 Great Neck Road South

Mashpee

Contact: Naomi Frye Peer Recovery Specialist (508) 477-0208, Ext 139

Event by the Tribal Opioid Response (TOR) Department

All are welcome! Please bring your resources to share!

BOOTS ON THE GROUND: FREE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Boots on the Ground will, through a Black community lens, explore the power of innovative, community-based approaches to help people with opioid use disorder. The summit will showcase community programs from across the country, each designed to counteract the stigma and racial disparities that so often keep members of communities of color from receiving equitable access to substance use disorder treatment and harm reduction and recovery services. Speakers will share the stories of their programs, highlighting factors that both enable and challenge their program successes, including funding, partners, and evaluation. Facilitated panel and breakout sessions will provide for additional insights and synthesis.

We believe the stories shared and the learnings that emerge from this summit will be valuable to communities dedicated to helping their members who are living with addiction/opioid use disorder.

Virtual Conference Date and Time

May 10, 2024

8:30 AM – 4:40 PM CDT/ 9:30 AM – 5:40 PM EDT / 6:30 AM - 2:40 PM PDT

No registration fee!

harm reduction

NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION: HARM REDUCTION TRAINING

National Harm Reduction Coalition (NHRC) facilitates trainings around the country. We open our virtual doors to individuals and teams seeking training on important evidence-based harm reduction strategies.

Our public training sessions are open to all who wish to attend. Whether you’re part of a community-based or harm reduction organization, or you’re an individual who loves people who use drugs and want to learn how to support them, we invite you to join us.

The NHRC will be hosting a 2-hour webinar on Friday, April 26th, 2024, from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST as part of our Foundational Fridays Series taking place every last Friday of the month. This webinar will focus on the basics of Hepatitis C.

prevention

WELLNESS TRAINING PROGRAMS AT CAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE

The Cape and Islands Suicide Prevention Coalition has partnered with Cape Cod Community College to offer training programs that provide our communities with the necessary information and tools to raise awareness, educate, and increase action to reduce suicides. 

SAMHSA OVERDOSE PREVENTION TOOLKIT

The primary purpose of this Toolkit is to educate a broad audience on overdose causes, risks, and signs, as well as the steps to take when witnessing and responding to an overdose. It provides clear, accessible information on opioid overdose reversal medications, such as naloxone. This Toolkit serves to complement, not replace, training on overdose prevention and response. It is also intended to augment the use of other overdose prevention tools for community engagement and planning, as well as enhance provider education across multiple practice areas.

STOP THE STIGMA SURROUNDING MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER

The End Stigma Subcommittee is a subcommittee of the Mashpee Substance Use Task Force, our goal is to educate the community on the facts about Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder.

PARENT TRAPS: CONFUSING TIMES RAISING TWEENS & TEENS GROUP SUPPORT

Join Children's Cove clinicians for a FREE informal support group learning to navigate tween/teen challenges in a safe environment at: WE CAN Office, 127 Airport Road, Hyannis (light lunch and refreshments included).

Topics include: tech safety, dating, teen slang, communication, healthy boundaries, and more.

The support group takes place over six weeks from April 24th through May 29th on Wednesdays, from 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM

To attend, email deena.anderson@childrenscove.org or call (774) 243-2949

recovery

YARMOUTH SUBSTANCE USE RESOURCE DROP-IN NIGHT

Recovery Resource Drop-In Nights are a confidential and safe space to connect with local substance use disorder treatment providers and support agencies. Representatives can help you navigate access to treatment, counseling and education for individuals and families struggling with substance use.

Drop-In Night takes place the last Monday of each month at the South Yarmouth Library at 312 Old Main Street from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

FIRST STEPS TOGETHER: FAMILIES IN RECOVERY SUPPORT

Are you a parent or expectant parent, who has struggled with opioid, stimulant or other substance use? We know that pregnancy and parenting young children can be hopeful and exciting. It can also be stressful and difficult, especially while working on your recovery. FIRST STEPS TOGETHER can help.

Questions?

Contact Christina Russell, Program Director

(508) 240-3310 / (774) 722-3305

CRussell@capecodchildrensplace.com

PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS: CHANGING FAMILY DYNAMICS – PLANNING FOR MOTHER'S DAY, FATHER'S DAY, AND MORE

Grief and sadness are often expected when a loved one dies. However, many people do not expect additional impacts, such as changes within family dynamics. Holidays that celebrate traditional family dynamics like Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day may take on new meaning. Whether a child, sibling, parent, or partner dies, our lives, and oftentimes the dynamics we have been accustomed to, forever change. This workshop invites and welcomes anyone, regardless of relationship to your loved one. April 23, 2024, from 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

treatment

COFFEE WITH CLEANSLATE: HYANNIS OPEN HOUSE EVENT!

Come meet our team--including behavioral health counselors, providers, and medical staff--to hear about all the updates to our recovery services! Light food and beverages will be provided. Bring your business cards for a raffle prize at the Center!

When: Thursday, May 9th

What Time: 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM

Where: CleanSlate Center, 68 Camp Street, Unit 1, Hyannis, MA 02601

Questions? Call Alexis Flaherty at (413) 409-0867

upcoming community events

COMBATTING HATE: BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE CAPE

The nation’s No Place for Hate movement spearheaded by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in 1999 objectives is making community-based positive changes that combat bias, bullying, hatred and unacceptance of any kind. The movement, which includes public schools, has reached over 1600 schools across the country according to the ADL website. The ADL reports that No Place for Hate programs has successfully reduced and in some cases eliminated behaviors of hatred within individual institutions.

DINK IT FORWARD: PICKLEBALL TOURNAMENT RAISES MONEY FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INNOVATORS, INC.

This fundraiser supports Behavioral Health Innovators, Inc. (BHI), a non-profit which helps Cape teens struggling with substance use and mental health challenges.

Date: Saturday, June 1st (rain date Sunday, June 2nd)

Location: Barnstable Pickleball Complex in Marstons Mills

Start Times: Intermediate –12:00 PM, Advanced – 3:00 PM

Cost: $60

THE MASSACHUSETTS OPIOID EPIDEMIC: CHANGING THE FRONT LINES

Massachusetts’ opioid crisis continues, with a record number of deaths in 2022 (over 1,700) and a similar level of fatalities last year. The introduction of potent synthetic opioids requiring immediate overdose response has transformed the profile of “first responders” on the frontlines of the crisis, encompassing not just law enforcement and health care professionals, but friends, families, and everyday citizens.

With the challenges of opioid addiction spreading into everyday lives, those on the frontlines of this crisis need every tool in the toolbox to fight overdoses. Join law enforcement, advocates, and others working to address this crisis for an important exchange on the evolving challenges surfacing in the opioid epidemic and discussion on viable solutions to save lives.

NOTE: Doors open for networking / light refreshments at 8:00 AM. The program runs from 9:00 AM to 10:15 AM. General admission: $15.00.

Questions? Contact Dylan Rossiter, Dylan.Rossiter@StateHouseNews.com

OPIOID EPIDEMIC: COMMUNITY DISCUSSION EVENT IN SANDWICH

Please participate in a guided discussion to share your personal experiences regarding the impact of the opioid epidemic on yourself, your family, and our community.

Your attendance will aid in identifying the most urgent needs in Sandwich, guiding the allocation of future opioid settlement funds.

Please RSVP to secure your place at the table. Walk-ins also welcome. Light supper and childcare will be provided (please RSVP the number and age of children).

DATE & TIME: May 14, 2024 from 5:30PM – 8:30PM

Location: Sandwich Center for Active Living, 70 Quaker Meetinghouse Rd. Sandwich, MA 02563

To RSVP, call (508) 888-5737 or click the button below.

DRUG STORY THEATER & ACHIEVE GREATNESS INC. PROUDLY PRESENT THE PLAY: "BACK TO LIVE" ON FENTANYL AWARENESS DAY 2024

“Back to Life" is a real-life account where a night of partying goes horribly wrong. This performance and talkback is geared toward parents and community members to explain the prevalence of deadly fentanyl and xylazine in recreational drugs available to their children, how trying drugs laced with these substances just one time can be fatal, to destigmatize Narcan, and to show that by providing it lives can be saved.

Tuesday May 7th, 2024, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Mass Maritime Academy 101 Academy Drive Bourne, MA 02532.

Doors open at 6:00 PM showtime at 7:00 PM.

funding opportunities

TOWN OF FALMOUTH SEEKS APPLICATIONS FOR OPIOID ABATEMENT FUNDS

The Town of Falmouth, acting through the Human Services Department, invites public or private, state and federally recognized nonprofit agencies, or partnerships, and other interested parties to apply for the Town’s Opioid Abatement funds to deliver programs and services that will mitigate the impacts of the Opioid Crisis.

The Town of Falmouth will issue one-year grants of up to $25,000 with an option to renew for up to two additional years. The Town of Falmouth reserves the right to determine if multiyear grants will be issued based on the scope and expected impact of the project and the organization’s history of delivering similar projects.

Additionally, grants of up to $1,000 for smaller projects will be awarded on a rolling basis and will have a separate application reviewed monthly by the Falmouth Commission on Substance Use.

Opioid Abatement funds must be spent in accordance with the State-wide Subdivision Agreement and used solely to supplement and strengthen, not supplant, resources for prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery of opioid use disorder. For a detailed outline of strategies approved for funding please visit https://www.mass.gov/doc/massachusetts-abatement-terms/download.

Organizations and collaborative partnerships selected for funding will enter into a contract with the Town of Falmouth to deliver the programs and services outlined in their application. The contractual start date is expected to be August 1, 2024.

All applications and required forms are available on the Town of Falmouth website http://www.falmouthma.gov/human-services and at the Human Services Office.

Applications are due on Friday, May 31st, 2024, by 4:00 pm in the Human Services Office: 744 Main Street, Falmouth, MA 02540, or via email at opioidabatement@falmouthma.gov.

A Zoom Drop-in hour will be offered to answer Applicant questions on Wednesday, April 17th at 3:00 pm.

Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87977868746pwd=F88Pth6UDwdOQJpHjc11xTaMO8YvxC.1.

CRISIS LINE MANAGER JOB OPPORTUNITY

Are you passionate about making a difference in people's lives? Join our team as a Crisis Line Manager and be at the forefront of providing crucial support to individuals in distress. As a leader in this role, you'll have the opportunity to guide and empower a team of compassionate responders, making a tangible impact on mental health and well-being. Take the next step in your career and become a pivotal force for positive change in our community. 

food resources

FOOD ACCESS CAPE COD

Be sure to download our Cape & Islands Food Access Resource Guide! This publication is updated regularly by the Barnstable County Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and contains all the information you need for food accessibility.

BUY FRESH BUY LOCAL

Be sure to download our Cape & Islands Food Access Resource Guide! This publication is updated regularly by the Barnstable County Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and contains all the information you need for food accessibility.

network of care

The Barnstable County Department of Human Services’ Network of Care (NOC) SERVICE DIRECTORY website, is a robust local health and human services directory with resources for individuals, families, and agencies on Cape Cod with public health questions and concerns.

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