Training & Resources
Overdose prevention and response materials to educate people how to use naloxone. There are also resources for Take Home Naloxone sites that distribute kits.
Training
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Teaching Materials
NaloxoneTraining.com
This web app is a project of the St. Paul’s Hospital Emergency Department with assistance from St. Paul’s Addiction Medicine and funding from St. Paul’s Foundation. It gives emergency rooms and other approved Take Home Naloxone sites an online training tool for people who use opioids and their loved ones to learn how to respond to an overdose with their kit.
Quick-Learn Lesson
This 15-20 minute interactive course in how to use naloxone is more detailed than the NaloxoneTraining.com web app.
Naloxone Training Manual
Created to support any person interested in learning how to prevent, recognize and respond to opioid overdoses. It includes the key knowledge and competencies required to administer naloxone.
Training Certificate
This certificate may be presented to those who have completed the Take Home Naloxone training.
Training Certificate Cards - Business Size
These certificate cards may be presented to those who have completed the Take Home Naloxone training.
Train-the-Trainer Training Certificate of Completion
This certificate may be presented to individuals, by participating THN sites, who demonstrate a high level of understanding related to overdose recognition and response and intend to train other potential trainers.
Take Home Naloxone trainers, who intend to train others, should review the following recommended resources:
Trainers should connect with participating THN sites to obtain training supplies for demonstration and practice by trainees.
Please review our complete list of training resources.
Train-the-Trainer Training Certificate Cards - Business Size
These certificate cards may be presented to those who have completed the Take Home Naloxone "Train-the-Trainer" training.
Take Home Naloxone Training Quiz
This quick quiz can be used by trainers to test paricipant knowledge about overdoes recognition and response. It is recommended that the quiz be used both as a pre and post-training assessment tool.
Also included is an answer rationale to support trainers in their discussions with participants.
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Videos
Why Give Breaths?
This video discusses why naloxone is only a part of the overdose response and why giving breaths is critical to keep someone alive and healthy.
SAVE ME Steps for NaloxoneTraining.com
This 6 minute instructional video with captions was developed for the NaloxoneTraining.com web app. It demonstrates the SAVE ME Steps to respond to an opioid overdose with a Take Home Naloxone kit.
How To Use Naloxone (Narcan)
This short video walks through the symptoms of an opioid overdose and how to respond with naloxone.
Naloxone Saves Lives
This 13 minute video shows how the THN program is saving lives. It includes naloxone training.
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Posters
How to Respond to an Opioid Overdose
This poster by Fraser Health details what to do with instructions all the way through.
Resources
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Signs, Postcards & Inserts
Naloxone decals (print-ready)
'Naloxone on Site' and 'Naloxone Training Here' decals.
Best printed on removable white vinyl
SAVE ME Insert - English
SAVE ME Step Insert as displayed in the Take Home Naloxone Kits (English Version).
SAVE ME Insert - French
SAVE ME Step Insert as displayed in the Take Home Naloxone Kits (French Version).
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Overdose Survival Guide
*NEW* Overdose Survival Guide Brochure
Updated verision (2022) of the overdose survival guide brochure. Available for order through the Take Home Naloxone program.
Overdose Survival Guide Brochure - FRENCH
Translated version of the updated (2018) overdose survival guide brochure.
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Infographics
See our Infographics page for details on the Take Home Naloxone program, the opioid emergency in BC, and more.