The Latinx community is a growing diverse population within the USA. Given its heterogeneity, what do we know about patterns of drug use and risk for opioid overdose? How do we support community-led harm reduction that is culturally- and linguistically-centered? Join us for this dialogue where we will present the need for antiracist epidemiology and share the Narcanazo initiative, an example of a Latinx opioid overdose initiative.
View the presenters:
Genoveva Garcia, LCSW | Family Therapist at Freedom Institute
Genoveva Garcia is a clinical social worker, specializing in family and couples therapy with 17 years of experience. She uses a systemic frame to help families heal in the context of substance abuse and addiction. With a BA from the Psychology Silberman School of Social Work, she facilitates parent and significant others support groups. In addition, Genoveva has experience with issues around trauma, chronic mental illness, infant mental health, and life transitions. Genoveva is a teaching faculty at the Ackerman Institute for the Family and maintains a private practice of seeing families and individuals in New York City.
“Freedom Institute honors the value of family treatment integrated into its unique collaborative teamwork. I feel honored to be part of the team here.”
Tamara Oyola-Santiago, MA, MPH, MCHES | Public Health Educator
Tamara Oyola-Santiago is a harm reductionist. Areas of life work include harm reduction grounded in critical pedagogy, social justice and equity in Puerto Rico and New York City, HIV/AIDS decriminalization, restorative practices, and prison abolition. Tamara graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with graduate degrees in Latin American Studies and public health. After graduate school, Tamara joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a Presidential Management Fellow; at The New School, she completed the Center for Optimal Living Harm Reduction Psychotherapy Certificate Program.
She is co-founder of Bronx Móvil, a fully bilingual (Spanish-English) mobile harm reduction and syringe services program that strives for the human rights of people who use drugs. Tamara is also part of the What Would an HIV Doula Do collective, a community of people joined in response to the ongoing AIDS Crisis.