Let's Talk About . . . The Future of Peer Work

Let's Talk About... The Future of Peer Work with Chad Sabora. This webinar explored how certification standards and recovery requirements can be reimagined to better include those with lived experience. About Chad Sabora, BA, MS, JD: Chad is a leading voice in harm reduction and drug policy reform, integrating lived experience with legal training, behavioral science and direct community practice. He holds degrees in psychology and political science, earned a law degree and previously served as a prosecuting attorney in Chicago. For more than a decade, he has worked across law, health care, public policy and community-based services to modernize the response to drug use. In Missouri, Illinois and Washington, D.C., he helped write, advocate for and pass reforms including overdose Good Samaritan protections, first responder and third-party naloxone access, and safeguards preventing the criminal justice system from interfering with evidence-based medications for opioid use disorder, including methadone and buprenorphine. He served on SAMHSA’s harm reduction stakeholder group, which authored the federal Harm Reduction Framework. He has advised the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy on harm reduction and recovery strategy and has served as a subject matter expert to the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and HHS’s Equity Technical Assistance Center. He was a senior advisor to Faces & Voices of Recovery and collaborated with NIDA on work to improve outcomes for people involved in the criminal justice system. Chad currently works with Unity Recovery as an advisor and subject matter expert. His work has been featured on the front page of The New York Times and by CNN, MSNBC and NBC News, where he was the focus of an Emmy Award-winning segment.