UPDATE 2023: Watch this space for updates about events related to the CODA Social Work Scholars Project (2014-2019).

Here is the background of the project:

CODA, Inc., Oregon’s oldest not-for-profit opioid treatment agency, first hosted students from the Queen’s University School of Social Sciences, Education, and Social Work in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the summer of 2014. In the years since, the CODA Social Work Scholars have continued to bring their enthusiasm, intellectual curiosity, and exemplary work ethic to this thriving project. Student travel has been supported each year by grants from Queen’s University and by the student participants themselves.

The students from Queen’s are training to serve a population that faces the same addiction/mental health conditions that CODA encounters in Greater Portland, with the additional challenge of addressing the effects of trauma following generations of unrest and violence in Northern Ireland. They are eager to learn more about behavioral health and social justice in the United States and to share their unique experiences with their counterparts here.