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Faithful Responses to the Overdoes Crisis: Building Congregations and Communities of Care

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37th Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Retreat for Social Justice

at the Interchurch Center, 475 Riverside Drive

Opioid overdose is both a public health crisis and a crisis of conscience for faith communities throughout the city. This conference will work to build a multifaith healing justice movement, through education, advocacy, and spiritual care centered on the dignity and divinity of all New Yorkers – including those who use drugs. Please join us for:

  • ➢  keynote panel including Kassandra Frederique (Drug Policy Alliance) and Monique Tula (Harm Reduction Coalition)

  • ➢  multifaith panel discussion, with diverse spiritual perspectives on the overdose crisis

  • ➢  small-group workshops focused, in part, on concrete steps faith leaders can take

  • ➢  hands-on training to administer naloxone, following a multifaith blessing for this life- saving medicine

    For detailed information and registration, click here.

$30 donation per person is suggested. Email hanadi@interfaithcenter.org with any questions.

Earlier Event: February 6
A Brief History of Racialized Drug Policy
Later Event: March 23
Healing and the Overdose Crisis