Public Health Advisor
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Brooklyn, New York
Chase Holleman, LCSW, LCAS, Public Health Analyst, licensed clinical social worker and addiction specialist, has served as SAMHSA’s leading subject matter expert in harm reduction since 2021. Housed in the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)’s Office of Prevention Innovation (OPI), at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Chase acts as an external liaison to partners and community collaborators, tracking on trends, promising practices, and challenges. Additionally, as SAMHSA continues to integrate harm reduction activities that support sustainable community-level harm reduction activities, Chase provides guidance and resources supported by evidence-based practices and community insight.
Chase began working in harm reduction as a syringe services volunteer with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition (NCHRC). Several years later, as the Director of Guilford County Solutions to the Opioid Problem (GCSTOP) and Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at UNC-Greensboro, he co-founded a harm reduction services program that doubled as a clinical training site for social work students. Today, Chase is especially grateful that harm reduction enabled him to live through multiple overdoses himself and knows that he is alive today because he had access to harm reduction services, quality treatment, and mutual aid from his peers. Anyone, anywhere, should have access to harm reduction, prevention, treatment, and recovery support services and Chase enjoys working to create those pathways.
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM