This week from OCHE + partners: October 30, 2026
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November 2, 2026 at 9:28 am by MA Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, Office of Community Health & Equity (OCHE)
From OCHE + BSAS
🗓️ At our next Community Office Hours on November 23 from 10am-12pm, the iDECIDE team welcomes community partner feedback about how this youth substance use curriculum may fit into faith settings. The following month on December 21 from 10am-12pm we’ll discuss how harm reduction can support us and others throughout the holiday season. See flyers for both attached, and register here for any dates you’d like to attend.
🗓️ New or potential members of BSAS’ Living Expertise Advisory Pool can join one last LEAP Orientation this year on November 9 from 10:15-11:45am. Can’t make it? We’ll offer more in the new year!
🗓️ BSAS TGE CAB Community Consulting Office Hours on November 13 from 12-1pm offer an opportunity to meet members of our Trans + Gender Expansive Community Advisory Board (TGE CAB). Register here to attend, and see the attached flyer for more info.
From our partners
🗓️ MA Department of Public Health, MassHealth, and the Massachusetts Health Connector invite you to an upcoming webinar titled Understanding Federal Healthcare Changes, Health Coverage Options, and Respiratory Illness Prevention in Massachusetts on November 2 from 11am-12:30pm. We especially encourage community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, community health workers, outreach staff, and other trusted community partners to attend. See attached for more information, and register here.
🗓️ Our partners here in DPH invite OCHE’s community partners to an upcoming informational webinar about the Massachusetts Health Data Tool on November 10 from 2-3pm. The tool includes substance use data reports, as well as data about population demographics and social determinants of health that may be helpful for needs assessments or grant writing purposes. See more details on the attached flyer, and register here.
🤝 The Recovery Corner, a space for resources about substance use, is now open in the Peabody Institute Library of Danvers. See the attached flyer for more information about this community collaboration, and contact danversoutreach@noblenet.org to learn more or contribute materials.
💡 Registration for the Family Support Provider Injury Prevention Training Series is open. This 12-part virtual series will run from November 2026 through June 2027 and is designed to equip family support providers with knowledge and tools to assess home environments for risk, communicate prevention strategies, and connect families with resources to promote safety in the home and in the community. Learn more and register here.
🗣️ PACT and FACT are intensive, community-based mental health service models housed in the Department of Mental Health (DPH) designed for individuals with severe and persistent mental illnesses. DMH will host upcoming listening sessions for families on November 2 from 6:30-7:30pm and clients on November 3 from 11am-12pm – complete the linked surveys to RSVP.
🗣️ DPH’s Suicide Prevention Program is now accepting workshop proposals for the 26th Annual Massachusetts Suicide Prevention Conference taking place on April 20–21 in Norwood. Learn more and submit a proposal by December 9 here.
Community partner spotlight
🔦 Sagrado Strategies was founded in 2023 on a simple belief: there is enough — and abundance is meant to be shared. The agency is a collective of independent consultants united by shared values, inclusive decision-making, and an unwavering commitment to equity whose work ensures that people with lived experience are not tokenized but recognized, compensated, and empowered as experts.
Together, the Sagrado team partners with non-profits, government agencies, and community organizations to create data-driven, community-centered solutions that advance housing, healing, and care. (One of those government partners is OCHE, where we’re fortunate to have a team member as co-chair of our TGE CAB!) Follow for more on Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn and contact connect@sagradostrategies.com to start a conversation.
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