Poster 36 - SafeSpot: Creating an Integrated Living and Lived Experience Workforce

Monday, April 27, 2026

1:15 PM - 1:45 PM MDT

Location: Screen 23, Exhibit Hall Poster Pavilion

Discover how SafeSpot, a peer-led overdose prevention hotline, is transforming care for people who use drugs alone. This session explores how the model blends harm reduction, technology, and workforce development to save lives and build an inclusive, sustainable peer workforce. Attendees will learn actionable strategies for replicating this intervention and rethinking outdated policies that exclude people with lived and living experience. Walk away with tools to challenge stigma and implement truly person-centered care.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the core components of the SafeSpot overdose prevention model, including anonymous call structure, overdose detection protocols, and peer-led operations.
Identify practical strategies for recruiting, training, and supporting a peer workforce rooted in lived and living experience of drug use.
Analyze how traditional hiring and service delivery practices may exclude people who use drugs, and apply harm reduction principles to create more inclusive, safer systems for both clients and staff.

Poster Presenter(s)

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TJ Thompson, n/a

Safety Coordinator
SafeSpot at Boston Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

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Kimber King, n/a

Operations Coordinator
SafeSpot at Boston Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

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Alicia Koshevoy, MPH

Community Implementation Specialist
SafeSpot Overdose Prevention Hotline - Boston Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

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