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.
Note: the Co/Lab CoP is currently not active. You can view recordings of past events below.
Previous 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.
+ Previous CoP Events
- This is PEEP: Reflections on 8 years of a BC peer advisory and advocacy group
- Equity-oriented monitoring framework for substance use
- Drug Policy in Supportive Housing: Legal Context, Resident Experience, and Ways Forward
- Safer Supply; Evidence and Models for Future Practice
- Importance of community overdose responders in developing take-home naloxone guidance
- Doing community-based research during dual public health emergencies (COVID and overdose)
- Moving beyond medicalized safe supply
- A Gendered Analysis of Prescribed Safer Supply in BC
- Patterns and Preferences of Substances Used in BC
- Peer2Peer Project
- Together We Stand presentation
- Findings from The good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act Evaluation
- Risk Mitigation Guidance (RMG) Study
- Creating the Community-Led Vancouver Alcohol Strategy
- VICA's Tailgate Toolkit Project
- Stigma faced by Peer Workers in Overdose Response Settings
- Essentials of Drug User Organizing: A grassroots approach
- Urban Indigenous Wellness Report: A BC Friendship Centre Perspective
- AVI's SAFER Initiative
- Adding equity to monitoring