It’s conference time again and you know what that means. I pull my finger out and write a blog post. This time it’s the three-day Cranstoun Social Justice conference held in Birmingham.
With so much online training delivery and studying recently, venturing out into the big world on a train with humans was a bigger feat than you’d think. So, Docs and big girl pants on I arrived, put up my freshly printed research poster (thanks Printland) and all was well. You can see my Lived Experience Workforce Study Poster here for readability and as soon as I’m graded I will publish more info from my work.
Luckily I made a conference buddy pretty quickly who was next to me exhibiting her own research. So my first blog shout out goes to Jade Pullen from Kings College London showing her research poster on Nitrous Oxide deaths. We had our picture taken for the Support Don’t Punish Campaign.
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- Stacey Smith MSc Official!
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- Lived Experience Research Poster
We attended the Harm Reduction workshop headed up by Maddie O Hare, Chris Rintoul, and Deb Hussey, all pioneers in this work and their dedication and tenacity is amazing. It’s well worth looking at the Stayin’ Alive campaign, a great example of collaborative working with HIT teaming up with leading treatment providers Cranstoun, Change Grow Live, Humankind and Turning Point to promote vital information to reduce the risks of overdose and the drug related deaths that continue to increase. If you work within services in the treatment and recovery sector or any related areas get this information out there. Keeping people alive. That’s what it’s all about.
Claire and Ian from DDN were in attendance and you can read the most September issue with all the articles from this year’s DDN conference.
My next event will be the SIAS Recovery event on Monday 23rd September in Solihull which will showcase the newly formed Better Together Solihull Recovery Community which I am honoured to be on the board for.
Watch this space and please do get in touch if you would like to comment, book me for training development, collaborate or offer me copious amounts of research funding!
Stacey
