SAFE Project - SAFE Campuses: Trainings, Workshops, and Courses

The SAFE Campuses team offers a wide variety of training opportunities, including live webinar, pre-recorded online courses, in-person keynotes, and interactive conference sessions. Our skilled staff are dedicated to delivering engaging and impactful sessions tailored to various audiences.

Many of our trainings and workshops can be replicated on your campus and facilitated by your own staff. To learn more about our Training of Trainers (TOT) and technical assistance (TA) programs, please reach out!

Our Training Offerings Include:

Recovery Allyship

There are many folks in our communities who are empathetic about addiction and recovery, but are unsure how to offer meaningful support. In this session, participants receive a recovery allyship training that explores the complexities of substance use disorders, recovery, stigma, and practical ways to support individuals with these experiences.
90 minutes
Virtual or in-person presentation
A Training of Trainers (TOT) is also available for Recovery Ally Training, alongside TA for implementing a customized version of this training as a running program on your campus!
Training of Trainers (TOT), along with technical assistance (TA), is available to support the implementation of this training as an ongoing, customized campus program.

Opioid Overdose Prevention & Response

Opioid Overdose Response Training (Full Length)
- This comprehensive training is designed for individuals who want to better understand the overdose crisis, learn how to intervene in an overdose emergency, and strengthen overdose prevention efforts in their communities. Upon completion, participants will feel confident recognizing an opioid overdose and responding with nasal spray naloxone as a bystander.
- 40-60 minutes
- Virtual or in-person presentation; also available as an asynchronous online course
- Training of Trainers (TOT), along with technical assistance (TA), is available to support the implementation of this training as an ongoing, customized campus program.
Opioid Overdose Response Training (Abbreviated)
- This brief training focuses on the essential information needed to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose with nasal spray naloxone as a bystander.
- 5-15 minutes
- Asynchronous online course; also available as a pre-recorded video
- Training of Trainers (TOT), along with technical assistance (TA), is available to support the implementation of this training as an ongoing, customized campus program.
Turning the Tide on Overdose: Understanding the Current Wave of the Crisis
- Higher education’s relationship with the overdose crisis is complex, and individual campus approaches vary widely. Some institutions model overdose response for their communities, while others distance themselves from the realities of campus substance use. Efforts to address substance use and overdose are often complicated by a rapidly changing landscape of risks, substances, and accessible resources. In this session, presenters share key updates and resources to help participants navigate the overdose crisis, including the role of opioids and polysubstance use.
- 60 minutes
- Virtual or in-person presentation

Substance-Specific Education and Risk Reduction Trainings

Xylazine Safety Training
- This short course equips participants with the knowledge about xylazine and how to navigate xylazine-related risk for themselves and others.
- 25 minutes
- Virtual or in-person presentation
Fentanyl Safety Training
- Audience members in this session learn about fentanyl: its prevalence, where fentanyl is found, how to navigate and reduce fentanyl-related risks, and actionable ways to help others.
- 25 minutes
- Virtual or in-person presentation; also available as an asynchronous online course
Alcohol Risk Reduction Training
- Empowering participants to make informed and mindful decisions, this session provides foundational alcohol and substance use education. Topics include how alcohol affects the body, polysubstance use, harm reduction strategies, and how to identify resources in your community.
- 60 minutes
- Virtual or in-person presentation

Student Leadership & Advocacy

Servant Leadership & Advocating on Campus
- Leadership within the substance use field can take many forms, but a foundational desire to serve others grounds it all. In this session, students develop a clear understanding of the concept of Servant Leadership and grapple with how it applies to advocating for long-lasting impact on campus.
- 60 minutes
- Virtual or in-person presentation
Is our Club/Team/Organization Recovery Friendly?: A Workshop on Culture, Stigma, and Leadership
- Many of our student groups have great intentions to be inclusive and open to the many ways that fellow students can show up and contribute. In this highly interactive workshop, we engage in the question: Is our group a place where someone in recovery could or would actually belong? Why, why not, and what may that mean?
- 90 minutes
- Virtual or in-person workshop
From Lived Experience to Strategic Storytelling: Sharing with Purpose, Boundaries, and Care
- People with lived experience are often encouraged to share their stories to connect, reduce stigma, and advocate for recovery-related supports. However, students and early-career professionals are rarely given guidance on personal boundaries or ethical considerations of sharing lived experience. This session explores how to share lived experience intentionally, with purpose and care, without self-exploitation or overexposure. Participants examine the idea of sharing “scars, not scabs” and how context, audience, and purpose shape storytelling decisions.
- 60 minutes
- Virtual or in-person presentation

Professional Development & Strategic Planning

“How We Think About Addiction Matters”: Transformative Reflections for Student Support
- It is critical to grapple with the underlying frameworks that shape our understanding of student substance use, addiction, and recovery. This session uses an inventory tool to clarify the assumptions and beliefs that shape our professional and personal approaches to student substance use. Data and themes from implementing this tool with professionals around the country are shared to help facilitate collaboration within and between organizations.
- 90 minutes to 3 hours, flexible.
- Virtual or in-person workshop or keynote
No “Them,” Just “Us”: Lessons Learned Using Partnership to Implement Campus Harm Reduction and Recovery Programs
- Implementing new programming on stigmatized topics such as substance use, overdose, and recovery often requires confronting deeply rooted campus and community culture. In this session, we explore the challenges of siloing, limited resources, and the role of partnerships in unlocking new opportunities. Participants will also learn about practical resources for overdose prevention, recovery allyship, and student recovery program development.
- 60-90 minutes
- Virtual or in-person presentation or keynote
Yes, We’re Still Fighting for Funding: Creative Approaches to Securing Resources
- Staff responsible for substance use prevention, harm reduction, and recovery programming often face the challenge of finding and sustaining financial and material resources in a higher education environment shaped by shifting funding priorities and competing institutional demands. This session outlines strategies to expand financial and material capacity for collegiate recovery programs and substance use prevention initiatives, including strategies for engaging donors, and facilitates discussion of participants’ experiences.
- 60 minutes
- Virtual or in-person workshop
Winning Proposal Workshop: Getting Your Time on the Conference Stage
- Many people have great ideas and meaningful work to share, but are rarely taught how to frame those ideas into conference proposals that stand out. Through insights from over 100 successful conference submissions–as well as perspectives from national conference organizers–this session provides tips, tricks, and practical guidelines for individuals and groups seeking to get their proposals approved. After all, one of the best ways to get approval to attend a conference is to be accepted as a speaker!
- 60-120 minutes
- Virtual or in-person workshop

Collegiate Recovery Support

Demystifying “Multiple Pathways of Recovery”: Reflections for Community Development
- In work as personal and vulnerable as recovery, it is understandable why concepts such as “multiple pathways of recovery” feel controversial. But, time and time again, we find that dialogue and self-reflection can help overcome these perceived barriers. This session overviews concepts related to these tensions and facilitates an activity to reflectively define an individual’s whole pathway to recovery. This session concludes with discussions about navigating pathway-based conflict between individuals and within programming.
- 60 minutes
- Virtual or in-person workshop
Developing A Recovery-Supportive Campus Strategy
- One challenge that repeatedly strikes collegiate recovery initiatives is that they often take shape, unintentionally, in ways that make them disposable rather than deeply ingrained into the campus itself. In this highly interactive workshop, students and staff consider how existing campus culture, practices, and resources do or do not support the development of a recovery-supportive campus community capable of sustaining future growth.
- 60 minutes to full-day
- Virtual or in-person workshop
History and Future of Collegiate Recovery
- Although relatively young within the broader landscape of higher education, the collegiate recovery field has a rich history that continues to shape our work today. This presentation shares the intersecting dynamics and perspectives that have influenced the history before turning toward the future of the field. What has the past shown us, and how can we apply those lessons as we continue to build the future?
- 60 minutes
- Virtual or in-person presentation

Customized Trainings

Looking for something you don’t see listed here, or interested in combining multiple topics? We also develop customized trainings and workshops upon request. Contact us to discuss your needs!

Customized Online Courses