Compassionate, Community-Centered Responses to the Drug Crisis
October 29 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Individuals, families, and entire communities across the country have experienced the effects of the substance use and a drug crisis in recent years. We often think about drug policy or addiction recovery as an issue affecting “individuals.” In this session, we want to think about substance use and recovery in a broader sense, exploring what happens when communities come together to address substance use in their local communities in positive ways that help individuals and the community to heal.
Substance use affects many people within communities, including the impacted individuals, family and friends, librarians, first responders, and business owners. Frequent occurrences of substance use in a community can affect the community’s identity, local economy, and sense of safety. How do communities who have faced challenges or human loss due to substance use heal afterwards? How have restorative practices been helpful to communities struggling with these questions? Our speakers can share both practice and policy that build stronger, healthier communities for everyone.
Hosted by the Center for Justice Reform at Vermont Law and Graduate School, this event is part of an ongoing online series, “Healing Communities to Heal the World.”
Esteemed guest speakers include:
Ricardo Bowden, Executive Director of Peer360
Kateri Coyhis, Executive Director of White Bison
Hon. Eric Mehnert, Chief Judge of Penobscot Nation
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