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Other program activitieswalmartsince 2020, cadca and walmart have produced 28 distinct events to increase naloxone awareness and community trainings. Walmart partnered with cadca to promote a series of community events hosted by cadca members at local walmart academy sites. These events are aimed at sharing information about local efforts and resources for fighting opioid misuse, and training community members to recognize and respond to opioid overdoses. Each community event featured a virtual reality (vr) demonstration developed by walmart that enables participants to simulate the steps of recognizing and responding to an opioid overdose, including administering the overdose-reversing drug naloxone. The events serve as pilot trainings that will inform the development of a nationwide series to deploy the vr overdose response training and promote opioid misuse awareness to communities around the country. Kenvue (formerly johnson & johnson)cadca has been at the forefront of otc medicine safety work for many years, both through training youth to make change in their communities and by working with key coalition leaders and preventionists who can spread the message of otc medicine safety widely. Implementing medicine safety initiatives is a huge step towards promoting health literacy and wellness to all people in the communities we serve. Throughout 2024, cadca partnered with kenvue's science education and patient advocacy team and the consumer healthcare products association to raise awareness to how medicine misuse intersects with dangerous social media challenges.at mid-year training institute, cadca released the over-the-counter (otc) medicine safety guide, which is available at cadca.org/otc and continues to be enthusiastically received by coalitions interested in promoting health literacy and strategic, primary prevention. Through our partnership with kenvue, cadca continues to work with state leaders and regional prevention providers to promote the otc medicine safety guide, the range of tools available as part of the otc medicine safety program, and our partners leading these efforts across multiple industries.