Metro Boston Regional Meeting
In this Metro Boston Regional Meeting we had a discussion about stigma and what we can do as preventionists to combat it by educating the community and building their capacity to use non-stigmatizing language. We discussed terms we use that can cause stigma and alternatives and how we can have constructive conversations with our colleagues and partners in the community to educate them about the harms of stigma.
Materials utilized and mentioned at the meeting are available for download below, along with the PPT.
- The Words We Use Matter. Reducing Stigma through Language from The National Alliance of Advocates for Buprenorphine Treatment
- Understanding Drug-Related Stigma: Tools for Better Practice and Social Change Curriculum Outline for Trainers
- Confronting Inadvertent Stigma and Pejorative Language in Addiction Scholarship: A Recognition and Response
- Metaphors Like ‘Clean’ and ‘Dirty’ Can Undermine Addiction Recovery
- Don't Call Them Dropouts: Report from Tufts University
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- If You Build A Crew Program For Overweight Kids, They Will Row — And Get Fitter