Advancing Capacity of the Drug User Health Workforce


Drug User Health Training Certificate Series

The Drug User Health Training Certificate Series equips learners with practical tools to deliver equitable, compassionate care for people who use drugs. With four (4) certificate options reflecting popular themes in drug user health, learners are prepared to drive meaningful change across healthcare, community, and faith-based settings in drug user health. 



Health Equity Certificate

Explores how social determinants, stigma, and systemic inequities shape health outcomes for people who use drugs. Learners will gain a deep understanding of trauma-informed care, medical mistrust, cultural competence, and faith-based healing as foundations for equitable service delivery. 


Clinical Drug User Health Certificate

Designed for healthcare professionals who provide direct care to individuals with substance use disorders. This training series focuses on clinical best practices, ethical considerations, and evidence-based approaches to pain management, addiction treatment, and patient engagement. 


Priority Populations Certificate

Focuses on the unique needs and lived experiences of populations often overlooked in traditional overdose prevention and response activities frameworks—including aging adults, youth, families, pregnant patients, and returning citizens. 


Leadership in Drug User Health Certificate

Encouraging current and emerging leaders to drive systemic change through collaboration, policy, and program design. This training series bridges public health, community organizing, and overdose prevention and response leadership to build sustainable, equitable systems of care. 


More Professional Development for the Drug User Health Workforce


Community-Focused Learning

Community-focused learners have the opportunity to earn certificates at four (4) levels focused on cultivating empathy, policy insight, and community collaboration skills to reduce stigma, enhance equity, and promote public health outcomes. 



  • Level I: Foundations of Person-Centered Public Health

Introduces essential principles, addresses stigma, and highlights the power of public health partnerships in promoting person-centered care. 


  • Level II: Trauma-Informed Community Engagement

Builds on foundational knowledge and equips participants with trauma-informed, compassionate approaches to community engagement. 


  • Level III: Overdose Prevention for Justice & Equity

Examines overdose prevention and response activities as a catalyst for justice and equity. 


  • Level IV: Leading Integrated Overdose Prevention Systems

Enhances participants’ capacity to lead integrated overdose prevention and response initiatives, bridging systems, championing collaboration, and sustaining meaningful change in the community. 




Clinical Care Workforce Learning

Clinicians will gain the tools to balance safety and empathy, integrate overdose prevention and response principles into medical practice, and lead
systems change in addiction and behavioral health care with four (4) levels of learning. Many courses offer CEU. 






  • Level I: Clinical Foundations of Overdose Prevention & Response

Introduces core clinical concepts in overdose prevention and response, addressing stigma, enhancing communication, and supporting relationship-centered care in medical settings.


  • Level II: Ethical & Trauma-Informed Clinical Care

Expands clinical knowledge by emphasizing ethical, trauma-informed care and navigation of complex clinical presentation


  • Level III: Advanced Screening, Diagnosis & Care Linkage for OUD/SUD

Develops advanced skills in equitable screening, diagnosis, and care linkage for OUD and SUD, with emphasis on pain management, language justice, and retention in care.


  • Level IV: Clinical Leadership in Overdose-Informed Care

Equips clinicians to lead overdose-informed care through advanced prescribing, pain management, and stimulant use treatment.