On Friday and Saturday, OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity program hosts its fifth Advocacy and Leadership Training cohort (pictured) in Elkton, Maryland. The trainings are designed to bring together groups of people around the state with lived experience with addiction and help them connect to local, statewide, and national advocacy efforts around drugs and addiction. Previous trainings have taken place in Frederick, Easton, Salisbury, and Hagerstown.
In Elkton, the sessions included a welcome from Scott Nolen, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity Program, a keynote address from Devin Reaves, executive director of the Pennsylvania Harm Reduction Coalition, Denis Antoine of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine on “The Science of Substance Use and Effective Treatments, “An Introduction to Harm Reduction” with Devin Reaves of the Pennsylvania Harm Reduction Coalition, “Communications and Media Presence,” with Evan Serpick, OSI-Baltimore’s director of Strategic Communications, and “Advocacy ABCs” with Tricia Christiansen of the Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition.
