Community expertise, building community power and making change happen: Peer-2-Peer Program

Learning from community expertise is essential to make change happen. Storytellers from the Peer-2-Peer Program in Chatham Kent, Ontario will share insights from the work they’ve been doing to engage with people who use drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will listen to stories about their work to amplify the expertise of people who use drugs, and to plan and implement peer-led community overdose alert and response systems. We will reflect on approaches to increase the capacity of organizations to meaningfully engage and share power for change.