POINT Center MD Leadership Academy
Lead with intention. Strengthen your team. Create lasting impact.
The POINT Center MD Leadership Academy is an engaging, two-day learning experience designed to strengthen leadership across Maryland’s drug user health workforce. Through practical instruction, guided reflection, and collaborative learning, participants gain tools to navigate complex environments, support staff effectively, make informed decisions, and lead with greater confidence and purpose.
The Academy recognizes that strong leadership can emerge at every level. Whether participants are stepping into leadership, managing programs and teams, or guiding organizational strategy, they will leave better prepared to foster resilient workplaces and advance responsive, person-centered services throughout Maryland.
Save the date!
The Leadership Academy will be In-Person Spring 2027!
Participants are expected to attend both days of the Leadership Academy.
Registration will open in early Spring 2027.
Who Should Attend?
The Leadership Academy is designed for professionals working within Maryland’s drug user health, harm reduction, behavioral health, and community service systems, including:
- Emerging leaders
- Supervisors and frontline managers
- Program and senior managers
- Executive directors and organizational leaders
- Staff responsible for program implementation or performance management
- Professionals with strategic, operational, or budget-related decision-making responsibilities
Training Agenda
DAY 1
8:30–9:00 AM
Arrival, Registration, and Networking
Coffee, tea, and light refreshments.
9:00–9:45 AM
Leading From Where You Stand: Adaptive Leadership in Drug User Health Spaces
Explore adaptive and influence-based leadership in outreach settings.
9:45–11:15 AM
Know Your Strength: Leadership Strengths and Reflective Practice Lab
Reflect on personal strengths, lived experience, and sustainable leadership practices.
11:15–11:30 AM
Break
11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Safety Starts With Us: Psychological Safety & Trauma-Informed Supervision
Learn strategies to support staff well-being, prevent burnout, and build psychologically safe teams.
1:00–2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00–3:30 PM
When Loss Hits the Team: Overdose Fatality Response Lab
Develop leadership response plans for overdose fatalities and other critical incidents.
3:30–3:45 PM
Break
3:45–5:00 PM
Conflict to Collaboration: Advanced Mediation Practicum
Practice conflict-resolution and restorative-leadership strategies.
DAY 2
8:30–9:00 AM
Networking
Coffee, tea, and light refreshments.
9:00–9:15 AM
Grounding and Reflection
Recap Day 1 and reflect on key leadership lessons.
9:15–10:30 AM
Data to Action: Strategic Decision-Making for Outreach Leaders
Explore frameworks for prioritization, partnerships, and strategic decision-making.
10:30–10:45 AM
Break
10:45 AM–12:00 PM
Choose Your Leadership Challenge: Breakout Leadership Labs
Discuss cohort collaboration, multidisciplinary supervision, and community conflict..
12:00–1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00–2:00 PM
From Insight to Action: Leadership Action Planning
Develop a practical leadership action plan and accountability strategies.
2:00–3:00 PM
From Insight to Impact: Leadership Action Planning Lab
Turn lessons from the Academy into actionable next steps.
3:00–3:30 PM
Closing
Reflect on key takeaways.
Leadership in Action
The Academy creates space for leaders from across Maryland to learn from one another, exchange ideas, and build relationships that extend beyond the two-day experience. Participants leave with practical strategies, renewed purpose, and a clear plan for putting their leadership into action.
Ready to lead with greater intention and impact? Join us for the 2027 POINT Center MD Leadership Academy.