Training Coordinator

The Training Coordinator develops resources and provides training and technical assistance to BHSB’s Bmore POWER harm reduction outreach team and to other organizations and individuals as required by the funding which supports this role. This includes facilitating trainings and meetings, offering consultations with staff on how to best support people who use drugs, and coordinating logistics of the work. Logistics includes both administrative and programmatic tasks related to the development, planning, scheduling, communications, delivery, evaluation, and reporting of these activities.

In addition, this position is required to build strong working relationships with partners across Baltimore City, including BHSB outreach team members, health department staff, people who use drugs, and others. This position reports to the Director of Harm Reduction.

Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use, based on a belief in, and respect for, the rights of people who use drugs.

Harm reduction training at Behavioral Health System Baltimore aims to support Baltimore’s harm reduction workforce in providing optimal services to people who use drugs by offering training and technical assistance to Bmore POWER outreach staff and staff at other organizations that serve people who use drugs, many of whom themselves have living or lived experience with drug use. This position works closely with the Bmore POWER team and other partners to understand the needs of harm reduction outreach programs and of people who use drugs in Baltimore City.

The position develops, evaluates, refines, and continues to deliver these resources and training content to the Bmore POWER team. The position focuses on meeting training needs related to performing harm reduction outreach work, including training on the principles of harm reduction, harm reduction interventions, strategies to advance harm reduction approaches in outreach work, and technical skills such as wound care practices, drug checking tools, overdose prevention and response, safer injection, and more.

This position reports to the Director of Harm Reduction and is a full time position working in a hybrid work environment in Baltimore, MD. BHSB will consider foremploymentqualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Training Consultation:

• Provide customized training and support to outreach team members and staff at other organizations, as required.
• Support continued research and implementation of best practices.

Facilitation:

• Facilitate live training sessions in-person and virtually for outreach team members and staff at other organizations, as required.
• Facilitate live in-person and online meetings.

Development:

• Develop training curricula and other resources for in-person and online dissemination to outreach team members at BHSB and staff at other organizations, as required, focused on the following topics related to performing harm reduction outreach work and preparation to engage in formal, licit work at organizations that serve people who use drugs.
• Topics about which training curricula and resources should be developed include, but are not limited to:
  • principles of harm reduction
  • harm reduction interventions
  • strategies to advance harm reduction approaches in outreach work
  • technical skills such as wound care practices, drug checking tools, overdose prevention and response, and safer injection
  • working as part of a team
  • working to achieve shared goals
  • workplace communication kills
  • conflict resolution and de-escalation
  • motivation interviewing
  • trauma-informed care
  • utilizing workplace technologies

Coordination:

• Coordinate logistics for provision of training and training…