Community of Practice
Overview
Co/Lab’s Community of Practice (CoP) ensures that monitoring, surveillance, and evaluation data are used to develop and support programs that benefit people who use drugs (PWUD) and alcohol. In doing so, this CoP brings together researchers and knowledge users (including PWUD) from across British Columbia to share knowledge and develop expertise around reducing substance-related harms. This CoP will allow participants to build their capacity, share information, and support mutual learning among stakeholders from community, government, and research. The CoP consists of synchronous learning activities including a virtual seminar series of webinars involving leaders with direct experience in topics related to PWUD and virtual roundtable meetings involving researchers and practitioners. A key function of the CoP is to promote discussion of current evidence as well as protocols and best practices.
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Upcoming events
Webinars and Presentations
These are more formal presentations focusing on specific topics related to health equity for people who use substances. These webinars are to share learning’s related to healthy equity coming from the Co/Lab study as well as learnings from on the ground programs and policy developments created to improve the lives of or people who use substances in BC. Presentations are usually 35-40 minutes long and we typically have about 20-25 minutes for questions and discussions at the end.
If you have a unique program, policy or a research update that you would like to share with the CoP through a webinar presentation please connect with our CoP coordinator.
To attend Webinars, sign up for our Community of Practice above.
Upcoming webinars
+ Previous CoP Events
- Adding equity to monitoring (Nov 26, 2020)
- AVI Health and Community Services' SAFER Initiative (Jan 27, 2021)
- Urban Indigenous Wellness Report: A BC Friendship Centre Perspective (Feb 26, 2021)
- Essentials of Drug User Organizing: A grassroots approach (March 31, 2021)
- Stigma faced by Peer Workers in Overdose Response Settings (May 31, 2021)
- VICA's Tailgate Toolkit Project (July 19, 2021)
- Evaluation of the Provincial Peer Network (January 26, 2022)
- Creating the Community-Led Vancouver Alcohol Strategy (March 10, 2022)
- Risk Mitigation Guidance (RMG) Study (July 7, 2022)
- Findings from The Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act Evaluation (December 9, 2022)
- Together We Stand (February 23,2023)
- Peer2Peer Project (March 7, 2023)
- Patterns and Preferences of substance use in BC (April 13, 2023)
- A Gendered Analysis of Prescribed Safer Supply in BC (June 8, 2023)
- Ann Livingston: How Drug User Mobilization Changes Policy (June 15, 2023)
- Moving beyond medicalized safer supply (November 28, 2023)
- Doing community-based research during dual public health emergencies (COVID and overdose) (December 4, 2023)
- Importance of community overdose responders in developing take-home naloxone guidance (January 12, 2024)
- Safer supply: evidence and models for future practice (January 26, 2024)
- Drug Policy in Supportive Housing: Legal Context, Resident Experience, and Ways Forward (February 6, 2024)
- Equity-oriented monitoring framework for substance use (February 13, 2024)