HLSC 4P40 SUMMER PLACEMENTS

The Naloxone Training team consists of four Public Health students including Ramar Smith, Kevin Nguyen, Alex White and Stephanie Thevarajah. In the past two weeks, we have been planning a Naloxone training session at Brock University and learning the importance of Naloxone especially in regards to opioid overdose among students on campus. We started our planning last week by organizing a contact list of all the stakeholders at Brock University which included BUSU staff, Residence Dons, Student Life, Security/Emergency and Isaacs Bar Staff. We drafted an email invitation to see if our stakeholders were interested in the training and provided some information from our research about drug use among students. With that sent out, we received a lot of positive feedback and high interest in return. We also popped in person to invite these departments verbally. We had our training done by Claire from Positive Living Niagara who taught us the administration of this opioid overdose medication and demonstrated safe drug use with real drug administering instruments. We have booked a room for our training, confirmed a time and date with our trainer, and created two posters. Our next step is to let our stakeholders know about the date and time, promote our event to the public with our posters and social media. I'm working on getting our event promoted on CFBU (Brock Radio) and ExperienceBu (Online directory for BrockU volunteer opportunities/events on campus). We're going to set up a Facebook page to track confirmation of attendance and promote the details of our event.