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Join Our Team!
ACT is now seeking Overdose Rescue Trainers to provide education to community members on how to provide aid during an overdose emergency. This is a paid opportunity to develop real-world skills and experience through hands-on service. 

Summer 2025 Info Packet Download

Want to learn more? Contact stopoverdosedeaths@wayne.edu to set up an individual meeting with the Member Experience Coordinator. 

Member Role

​As an Overdose Rescue Trainer you will:

  • Reach out to community members via emails, phone calls, social media, and in-person outreach efforts

  • Invite community members to participate in Overdose Rescue training

  • Schedule, organize, and deliver Overdose Rescue Training sessions for the public and private groups, businesses, and organizations

  • Distribute Overdose Rescue Kits containing easy-to-use Narcan overdose-reversing nasal spray

  • Raise awareness about opioid use disorder and harm reduction strategies

  • Track our impact in our service area

  • Work on specialized project team "squads" to create media products, use health data, and help ACT reach its goals

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The Service Term

  • Commit to a part time, six-month term of service consisting of 20 hours per week (450 hours total)

  • Serve in a hybrid environment of virtual and in-person tasks

  • Receive a living stipend of $5,850 living stipend. $4,950  distributed bi-weekly throughout your term of service, and $900 given out as a term completion bonus when you successfully complete your term of service. 

  • Earn a Segal Education Award of $1,956.35 upon completion of your service term.

  • Receive training and an Overdose Rescue Kit containing overdose-reversing nasal spray (Narcan) 

  • Receive over 80 hours of extensive professional development and training

  • Gain valuable skills and real-world experience 

  • Contribute to positive change in your community with a diverse team

  • Connect to career opportunities with leading employers from the private, public and nonprofit sectors

  • Become part of the broader AmeriCorps national service network  

  • Gain access to Service Year Alliance: An online network of resources that provide job opportunities and continued professional development to AmeriCorps alumni

Summer 2025 Term
Application Deadlines

Priority

January 22, 2025

Final

​February 19 2025

Summer 2025 Term
Start Date


April 28, 2025

Summer 2025 Term
End Date

November 9, 2025

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