addiction

Substance Use Disorder Ally Resource

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The Virginia Department of Social Services and VCU’s Rams in Recovery partnered to develop a virtual training and resource center, www.RecoveryAllyVDSS.com, focused on substance use disorder (SUD) for the VDSS workforce, the public, and community partners.  Training topics include: Recovery Ally Worker Self-Care Relatives & Fictive Kin People with Lived Experience and Peer Recovery Specialists … Read more

Fighting Opioid Addiction in Virginia

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Governor Terry McAuliffe has announced that the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) has awarded federal AmeriCorps funding to the City of Richmond Human Services Commission to combat the opioid epidemic and its devastating effects on families, communities, workplaces, health care, and the state. The City of Richmond, through the Richmond AmeriCorps Healthy Futures … Read more