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Training Overview: This training seeks to create space for reflection and conversation with participants about the concept of cultural humility with the goal of initiating and sustaining a culture of continuous learning, reflection, and humility while helping training attendees explore and understand the following: what is the concept of cultural humility, why is it relevant […]

Training Overview: Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative, person-centered counseling approach designed to strengthen an individual’s motivation and commitment to change. This interactive training equips participants with the foundational principles, spirit, and core skills of MI, including expressing empathy, developing discrepancy, rolling with resistance, and supporting self-efficacy. Through a blend of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on […]

Training Overview: This highly participatory session will focus on workshopping practical ways providers can integrate to their practice the six principles of harm reduction. Trainees will engage with each other to unpack real life case scenarios and will have the opportunity to collectively review and analyze how to effectively consistently infuse harm reduction to their […]

Training Overview: Harm Reduction offers a unique approach to working with de-escalation. De-escalation starts with knowing our own responses to an escalated situation, knowing how other people that you work with respond, and knowing your people that you work with. This training will focus on developing effective techniques for approaching escalated situations before they happen, while they are […]

Training Overview: This workshop explores boundary setting and disclosure between people who use drugs and providers within a harm reduction framework. The workshop will provide guidance and ‘best practices’ for identifying boundary issues and boundary violations in their daily work with participants. In addition, the function of individual and group supervision will be discussed, in […]

Training Overview: This workshop helps participants understand the relationship between trauma and substance use, learn key trauma-informed practices, and analyze the way that agency policies and staff interactions can be experienced as re-traumatizing. Specific skills are offered for creating an agency culture that is both sensitive to, and able to work with, the complex behaviors […]

Training Overview: This training will discuss the application of harm reduction in substance use treatment programs and settings. Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies that  reduce negative consequences of drug use and improve the quality of the client’s life based on harm reduction principles. This approach can be challenging for providers trained in traditional […]

Training Overview: Taking care of complex clients is at times a difficult business. The people we work with suffer greatly and the stories we hear are distressing. Agencies and individuals can develop strategies for coping with the feelings that often mirror the distress of our clients. This workshop offers information about the nature of vicarious […]

Training Overview: This highly participatory session will focus on workshopping practical ways providers can integrate to their practice the six principles of harm reduction. Trainees will engage with each other to unpack real life case scenarios and will have the opportunity to collectively review and analyze how to effectively consistently infuse harm reduction to their […]

Training Overview: Harm reduction has its origins in grassroots social justice and mutual aid. The Spirit of Harm Reduction examines the history and state of the four-part U.S. harm reduction movement and its impact on the creation and current use of Harm Reduction Therapy (HRT). This training explores beliefs systems, countertransference, and basic assessment models […]

Training Overview: This training will give harm reduction workers a background of the history and policies related to many of the health disparities faced by people who use drugs, especially those who also identify as people of color, women, and/or LGBTQ.  Through a combination of discussion, shared experiences, and activities, training participants will explore how […]

Training Overview: Biology, psychology, and sociology play a critical role in a person’s relationship with substances and helps to explain or understand substance use. Different substances affect different people in different ways for many different reasons. This training will cover the types, classifications, and major categories of substances. Also, we will explore how different substances […]