Thank you for your interest in attending the webinar Prescribed Safer Supply: Background and Busting Myths on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023 from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. ET.
The objectives of this webinar are to learn about the:
- goals of prescribed safer supply and understand the problem that prescribed safer supply aims to address, i.e., the unpredictable unregulated drug supply and harmful drug policies, and how safer supply fits in with progressive policy-oriented solutions to addressing the problem
- philosophy of care, the role prescribed safer supply has on the continuum of care for people who use drugs, and its relationship to other harm reduction interventions, such as supervised consumption services
- emerging evidence about the impact of safer supply programs on client outcomes and health systems
Presenters:
- Marysia (Mish) Waraksa, NP and clinical lead, Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre Safer Opioids Supply Program
- Marlene Haines, NP, PhD Candidate
If you'd like to register for the second installment in our Safer Supply series,
Understanding the impact: Safer supply program models and nursing practice, on August 22, 2023 from 11:30 a.m.- 1 p.m. ET,
please click here: https://myrnao.ca/safersupply2
The objectives of this webinar are to:
- learn about prescribed safer supply program models in Ontario
- analyze the role of nurses in safer supply programs
- understand the impacts and implications of safer supply in the context of nursing practice
- apply and integrate new knowledge of safer supply prescribing into nursing practice
- learn about the benefits, challenges and next steps for prescribed safer supply programs
Presenters:
- Marysia (Mish) Waraksa, NP and clinical lead, Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre Safer Opioids Supply Program
- Marlene Haines, NP, PhD Candidate
- Sophia Coulter-English, RN
The webinars are developed by RNAO in partnership with its Mental Health Nurses Interest Group and Community Health Nurses’ Initiatives Group, as well as the Harm Reduction Nurses Association, Moms Stop the Harm and the National Safer Supply Community of Practice. To receive more information about upcoming webinars in this series, please register.
Please complete the registration form below and an email confirmation with connection details will be sent to the email address provided. If you do not receive this email, please contact the Mental Health & Substance Use program at mhsu@RNAO.ca