BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML WPForms//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Feeds v3.9.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Overdose Awareness Month: Remembrance and Education X-WR-CALDESC:GLIDE - San Francisco: serving the people of the Tenderloin and San Francisco since 1963 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 DTSTART:20250309T100000 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 DTSTART:20250309T100000 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Overdose Awareness Month: Remembrance and Education DESCRIPTION:Overdose Awareness Month\n\nCome join GLIDE's Center for Soc ial Justice for a special event dedicated to remembrance and raising awa reness about overdose prevention. This event will shed light on the many complexities with experts in the field\, and a moment to share\, heal\, and be with community.\n\nOverdose Awareness Month is dedicated to:\n\n Remembering and grieving those lost to overdose: Acknowledging the profo und grief of families and friends left behind.\n\nRaising awareness abou t the overdose crisis: Highlighting it as a critical public health issue and stimulating action and discussion about overdose prevention.\n\nEnc ouraging support and recovery: Promoting compassion\, reducing the stigm a associated with drug-related deaths and substance use\, and supporting recovery for those impacted.\n\nPromoting evidence-based solutions: Adv ocating for continued funding\, programs\, and strategies to prevent ove rdose and save lives.\n\nLearning more: Educate yourself about overdose prevention\, recognizing the signs of overdose\, and how to respond in a n emergency.\n\nTalking about it: Break down the stigma by having conver sations about the overdose crisis and encouraging open dialogue within y our community.\n\nModerator:\n\nNaeemah Charles\, Senior Director\, Glid e Center for Social Justice\n\nPanelist include:\n\nDel Seymour\n\nDel S eymour\, referred to as the Mayor of the Tenderloin\, has lived in this Community for 38 years. He serves on many Boards including two at City H all. He survived 18 years of addiction in the Tenderloin and founded Cod e Tenderloin and Tenderloin Walking Tours as well as Tenderloin Blacknes s.\n\nApple Cronk\n\nApple is a mother\, writer\, and passionate advocat e for justice whose lived experience fuels their commitment to transform ative change. Having survived over a decade of homelessness on the stree ts of San Francisco and overcome a long period of substance use rooted i n childhood trauma\, they now celebrate more than two years in recovery. Their journey through systems of neglect\, including the foster care sy stem and housing instability\, gives them a rare and essential insight i nto the challenges facing unhoused and marginalized communities.\n\nAs a student of social justice and emerging political voice\, Apple advocate s for policy reforms that support families\, expand access to care\, and center on compassion over punishment. Apple draws from lived experience navigating institutions like family court and child welfare\, using the ir story to expose the harm caused by systemic failure and inspire chang e.\n\nApple's work is rooted in the belief that no one should be alienat ed or criminalized for their identity\, trauma\, or poverty. Through sto rytelling and advocacy\, they push for policies that uplift rather than condemn\, and for a future where healing is a right\, not a privilege.\n \nLaura Guzman\, JD\n\nLaura Guzman currently serves as the Executive Di rector of the National Harm Reduction Coalition (NHRC)\, a national capa city building non-profit organization that advocates for the rights and wellbeing of people who use drugs. In this role as a national leader\, s he has spearheaded transformative initiatives at the forefront of harm r eduction\, homelessness\, health\, and housing. Notably\, Laura's leader ship at NHRC has not only garnered national recognition but has also sec ured substantial investments\, including a $61 million commitment from C alifornia's opioid settlement funds to extend the California Harm Reduct ion Initiative she championed.\n\nHer legacy includes founding and direc ting the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center\, a vital harm reduction a nd health care for the homeless project serving San Francisco's marginal ized communities.\n\nLaura's unwavering commitment to advocacy and servi ce began during the AIDS epidemic\, shaping her profound dedication to o ffering dignified support and care to those in need. Born in Buenos Aire s\, Argentina\, Laura holds a Juris Doctor degree from New College of Ca lifornia School of Law (1995) and a Bachelors in Linguistics from Univer sity of California at Berkeley (1992). She currently serves as Chair of the Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless Commission and member of the Board of Directors of the National Health Care for the Homeless Cou ncil.\n\nMaurice Byrd\, LMFT\n\nMaurice Byrd is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist working as a harm reductionist for the past 20 years. H e is a clinical supervisor and has collaborated in the development and i mplementation of community mental health programs for people experiencin g chronic mental health disorders\, substance use disorders and experien cing homelessness. During his career\, he has worked with adolescents an d adults. He has provided mental health services in middle schools\, hig h schools\, in private practice settings\, in the San Francisco County J ail system\, in San Quentin prison\, in homeless drop-in centers\, at ne edle exchanges\, and on the sidewalk with people experiencing homelessne ss.\n\nMaurice specializes in teaching the fundamentals of practicing Ha rm Reduction Psychotherapy. He also enjoys teaching about facilitating g roups and led a Harm Reduction Marijuana Group for system exposed young adults that he facilitated for 8 years.\n\nMaurice has been trained in M DMA for PTSD with MAPS and Ketamine assisted therapy. He also provides i ndividual and group KAT therapy in his private practice. He has taught i n the MFT program at Holy Names University in Oakland\, CA focusing on S ubstance Use interventions and Community Mental Health. He is a publishe d author\, cowriting the chapter Dealing with Drug Use After Prison: Har m Reduction Therapy in the book Decarcerating America.\n\nSpecial Openin g Performance\n\nSkywatchers\n\nSkywatchers is a cross-cultural\, interg enerational\, mixed-ability community arts collaboration in San Francisc o’s Tenderloin Neighborhood. Based on the belief that relationships ar e the first site of social change\, we deploy our arts to weave the powe r and intimacy of personal stories\, centering marginalized voices to sh ape culture and celebrate our interdependence.\n\nhttps://www.skywatcher ssf.org/\n\nGrounding and Healing\n\nSenior Manager of Transformational Learning\, Rashida Wells Oji\n\nBring a candle\, a special picture of so meone\, or flowers to place on our healing altar of remembrance. For mor e information\, please contact Erick Arguello\, Advocacy Manager at earg uello@glide.org\n\nCome join this very special event to heal\, learn and to help save lives.\n\nIn solidarity\n\nGlide's Center for Social Justi ce\n\nGLIDE\n\nFreedom Hall\n\n330 Ellis St.\n\nSan Francisco\, Ca. 9410 2\n\n6 to 8 PM\n\nTo register please click on the link below:\n\nhttps:/ /www.eventbrite.com/e/overdose-awareness-month-remembrance-and-education -tickets-1478959982119?aff=oddtdtcreator URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.glide.org/events/overdose-awareness-month-reme mbrance-and-education/ UID:urn:uuid:8d550ee9-a5cb-493f-b619-a1b57cb1de38 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20261025T185414Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250828T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250828T200000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR