On Thursday, June 29, from 1:00 – 3:30 PM we will be sponsoring a free Active Bystander Training in partnership with The RECOVER Project and Quabbin Mediation. To register or for more information, please email Tess Jurgensen at tess@opioidtaskforce.org.

As a bystander witnessing a harmful situation, you have a choice to make. Do you do something? What do you do?

Active Bystanders’ Training helps participants recognize when they are bystanders, analyze situations, and evaluate the consequences for everyone involved. The training heightens bystanders’ power. It teaches how bystanders can interrupt harm doing and generate positive actions by others. Active bystandership does not mean aggression against the harm doer. It means taking responsible action to help people in need instead of remaining passive and becoming complicit. Bystanders gain competencies they need if they decide to act when they witness something they feel is unfair, or wrong, or troubling.