Peer Grief Support: COSA Meets Jan 13th
- COSAHC
- 22 minutes ago
- 2 min read
Direct Service Providers (DSPs) working in the overdose crisis experience trauma as well as individual and collective grief due to the loss of clients, coworkers, friends and community. SADOD (Support After Death by Overdose) DSP program was created out of a need to offer grief support to the workforce impacted by substance use loss/suicide. SADOD’s DSP programming serves the community of providers such as recovery coaches, harm reduction staff, nurses, residential, MOUD program staff and more, by way of providing free monthly peer grief support groups and workshops via zoom. SADOD’s DSP workshops are developed and facilitated by DSP peers, covering topics related to grief /loss & resiliency while providing peers an opportunity to discuss these topics in community.
SADOD also provides free peer grief services to the general community offering 1:1 peer grief support as well as specialty virtual and in person peer grief support groups. Learn about all of SADOD’s community peer grief services which may be supportive resources for your loved ones, co-workers/staff and communities you are working with who might be grieving. You will be provided with information on how the DSP program can work with your organization, as well as the referral processes for the 1:1 peer grief services for the general community.
Presenters will include:
Gabriel Quaglia
Direct Service Provider Program Manager, Support After a Death by Overdose (SADOD)
A former certified community health worker, Gabriel worked since 2016 in service delivery, program development, and training for harm reduction, SUD treatment programs, and peer grief support. As a person in long term recovery, Gabriel has worked for over twelve years in advocacy and direct action with people who use drugs and people experiencing homelessness as well as labor organizing. Currently they are working for SADOD delivering groups for direct service providers (DSP) experiencing grief and loss as well as offering training and technical assistance relevant to DSP support.
Jill Shanahan (she/her)began working in Massachusetts harm reduction programming in 2008, doing street outreach in New Bedford and Fall River, MA. She worked in drop-in centers supporting people who use drugs and later began working within needle exchange programs in Western Massachusetts for 9 years with a focus on program expansion and staff support. Jill is currently co- creating grief peer support for Direct Service Workers, as an educator and facilitator with (SADOD) Support After Death by Overdose.
Tuesday, January 13th from 10am-11am
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