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Training Overview: The goal of this training is to explore with participant how to best integrate a harm reduction approach when providing services for people who engage in sex work. Through the training participants will explore how internalized stigma can lead to harmful behaviors and discuss strategies to promote more effective engagement skills with individuals […]

Training Overview: In this training, participants will learn MI techniques that include the spirit of motivational interviewing and micro skills, primarily reflective listening. This session will also focus on the use of ambivalence in the counseling process, strategies for increasing motivation, and self-efficacy and optimism. At the conclusion of this training, participants should be able […]

Training Overview: This training will provide health and human service providers with a comprehensive overview of Harm Reduction. This approach incorporates a practical set of strategies designed to prevent disease and promote health by “meeting people where they are” rather than making judgments about where they should be in terms of their personal health and […]

Training Overview: In this training, participants will learn MI techniques that include the spirit of motivational interviewing and microskills, primarily reflective listening. This session will also focus on the use of ambivalence in the counseling process, strategies for increasing motivation, and self-efficacy and optimism. At the conclusion of this training, participants should be able to: […]

Training Overview: This training will provide health and human service providers with a comprehensive overview of Harm Reduction. This approach incorporates a practical set of strategies designed to prevent disease and promote health by “meeting people where they are” rather than making judgments about where they should be in terms of their personal health and […]

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 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: This session focuses on basic knowledge about the drugs that are commonly used by participants at Syringe Service Programs (SSPs). We will review basic information about how drugs are used, why they are used, and ways to reduce the harms from using drugs, including effective safety planning strategies. The training will provide an overview of how to […]

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: The goal of this training is to explore with participant how to best integrate a harm reduction approach when providing services for people who engage in sex work. Through the training participants will explore how internalized stigma can lead to harmful behaviors and discuss strategies to promote more effective engagement skills with individuals […]