2025 HRS: Naloxone Distribution from the Ground Up a Local Approach to Saturation

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and prevention, 5) addiction and recovery services, 6) local and state partnerships, and 7) the current status of the drug overdose epidemic.

Individuals seeking help face significant challenges, including transportation barriers, the inability to leave work without risking job loss, and responsibilities for children, pets, or other dependents. Navigators responsible for linking clients to care also encounter obstacles, such as clients having more immediate or pressing needs like housing or employment, a brief window of time when clients are ready and willing to seek help, and the lack of readily available information on clients' accessibility needs in existing programs.

Online resources play a critical role in addressing these challenges by offering flexible, accessible support options that can bridge the gap between immediate needs and long-term care.

Target Audience

The target audience for this conference includes physicians, nurses, social workers, public health professionals, certified alcohol and drug counselors, community health workers, licensed professional clinical counselors, adult support counselors, and target case managers.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this learning activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Apply social-ecological modeling to focus distribution efforts on populations most likely to witness an overdose.

  2. Analyze local disparities in overdose mortality and evaluate the importance of using both top-down and bottom-up approaches.

  3. Implement evidence-based strategies for active overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND), including community events, opt-out hand-to-hand distribution, First Responder Leave Behind, post-overdose response, and secondary distribution.

  4. Integrate best practices for passive OEND strategies, including mail order, vending machines, emergency response boxes, and kiosks, into existing public health and community initiatives.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACPE

    In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

    This knowledge-based activity will award 1.00 contact hour(s) (0.100 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credit in states that recognize ACPE providers.

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

    This Enduring activity is designated for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.00 ANCC (UK Healthcare CECentral)

    In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

    The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.00 nursing contact hour(s).

  • 1.00 ASWB

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, UK HealthCare CECentral is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. UK HealthCare CECentral maintains responsibility for this course.

    Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 clinical continuing education credit(s).

  • 1.00 Certified Community Health Work
    This training is approved by the Office of Community Health Workers Program to provide 1.00 continuing education unit(s) for Certified Community Health Workers.
  • 1.00 Certified Health Education Specialist Credit (Western Kentucky University Department of Public Health)
    Sponsored by Department of Public Health, Western Kentucky University, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.00 total Category I continuing education contact hour(s). Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available are 1.00. Continuing Competency credit is 1.00. Provider ID# 105862, Event ID# Provider ID# 105862 Event ID# 61064.
  • 1.00 EMS (Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services)
    The Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services (KBEMS) certifies that this educational activity is designated for 1.00 KBEMS contact hour(s). Approval Number: KBEMS-2025-UKHCCE-0008
  • 1.00 Participation
    UK Healthcare CECentral certifies this activity for 1.00 hour(s) of participation.
Course opens: 
09/04/2025
Course expires: 
09/03/2028
Part of: 
2025 Kentucky Harm Reduction Summit
Rating: 
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Chris Smith Chris Smith, BSN, RN
Overdose Prevention Program Manager
Kentucky Department for Public Health

Chris Smith, RN-BSN is the Overdose Prevention Liaison at the Kentucky Department for Public Health, seconded to the Department by Vital Strategies.
Working as an Emergency Medical Technician and a Registered Nurse in rural and urban Kentucky, he saw first-hand the limits of stigmatized approaches to the harms associated with substance use. This led to his career transition to public health and harm reduction. Working closely with people who use drugs in a Syringe Service Program, he learned to center lived and living experience in health promotion and to advocate for evidence-based interventions based on Harm Reduction principles. Chris is proud to be working with the KDPH Harm Reduction Program, sharing these strategies across the Commonwealth. In this role, he manages the statewide naloxone access portal FindNaloxoneNowKY.org, while working strategically with government partners and community-based organizations to develop and coordinate Overdose Education and Naloxone
Distribution across the commonwealth.

 

 

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by UK HealthCare CECentral Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, and Kentucky Department for Public Health. University of Kentucky HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

CME

This enduring material is designated for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This training has been approved by the KBML as meeting the statutory requirements of HB1. ID# 0624-H8.0-UKCE3cc.

CPE

This knowledge-based activity will award 1 contact hour (0.100 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credit in states that recognize ACPE providers.

ASWB ACE

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, UK HealthCare CECentral is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. UK HealthCare CECentral maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.

CNE

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1 nursing contact hour.

EMS

The Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services (KBEMS) certifies that this educational activity is designated for 1 KBEMS contact hour.

CHES

Sponsored by Department of Public Health, Western Kentucky University, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.0 total Category I continuing education contact hour. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available are 0. Continuing Competency credits available are up to 0.   Provider ID# 105862      Event ID# ­­­­61074

CADC 

This activity has been approved for 1 hour to meet the continuing education requirements for credential renewal.

CCHW

This training is approved by the Office of Community Health Workers Program to provide 1 continuing education unit for Certified Community Health Workers.Other

UK Healthcare CECentral certifies this activity for 1 hour of participation.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ACPE

    In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

    This knowledge-based activity will award 1.00 contact hour(s) (0.100 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credit in states that recognize ACPE providers.

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

    This Enduring activity is designated for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.00 ANCC (UK Healthcare CECentral)

    In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

    The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.00 nursing contact hour(s).

  • 1.00 ASWB

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, UK HealthCare CECentral is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. UK HealthCare CECentral maintains responsibility for this course.

    Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 clinical continuing education credit(s).

  • 1.00 Certified Community Health Work
    This training is approved by the Office of Community Health Workers Program to provide 1.00 continuing education unit(s) for Certified Community Health Workers.
  • 1.00 Certified Health Education Specialist Credit (Western Kentucky University Department of Public Health)
    Sponsored by Department of Public Health, Western Kentucky University, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.00 total Category I continuing education contact hour(s). Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available are 1.00. Continuing Competency credit is 1.00. Provider ID# 105862, Event ID# Provider ID# 105862 Event ID# 61064.
  • 1.00 EMS (Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services)
    The Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services (KBEMS) certifies that this educational activity is designated for 1.00 KBEMS contact hour(s). Approval Number: KBEMS-2025-UKHCCE-0008
  • 1.00 Participation
    UK Healthcare CECentral certifies this activity for 1.00 hour(s) of participation.
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