INNOVATIONS AND TRENDS IN FIRST RESPONSE
Chicago Recovery Alliance
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Iliana Espinosa-Ravi is the Community Overdose Prevention Program Manager for the Chicago Recovery Alliance, where her work focuses on reducing some of the harms experienced by people who use drugs as well as supporting positive change as individuals define it for themselves. Iliana also works as a mental health worker in a Heartland Alliance Health housing first program where she runs a substance use management group.
Iliana has been involved in social advocacy work since 2009 and has worked in the field of behavioral health since 2014. Iliana received an MSW and an MPH from the University of Illinois at Chicago.