Moderator - Breakout Session: Navigating Access to MOUD and Harm Reduction in Carceral Settings: Challenges and Opportunities for Advocacy
Moderator - Plenary Panel 1: Reforming Involuntary Holds for People with Substance Use Disorders: Best Practices (Section 35 Reform) (Saturday AM)
Deborah Goldfarb has worked in the social services field with diverse patient populations throughout greater Boston for more than 10 years. As a case manager and clinical social worker, she has focused on social determinants of health as well acute psychiatric crises, trauma, homelessness, and addiction. In recent years her work has concentrated on the intersection of behavioral health care and the criminal legal system through work in the state prison system and with Harvard Law's Criminal Justice Institute.
Goldfarb is the director of behavioral health for Population Health at Boston Medical Center, and leads initiatives related to the criminalization of addiction at the Grayken Center for Addiction. As a passionate advocate for those facing social injustices, she leads the National Association of Social Workers Massachusetts Chapter's Criminal Justice Committee, is a board member with the Criminal Justice Policy Coalition, and teaches part time at the Boston University School of Social Work.