Events

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 […]

Join us for a half-day virtual training on how to expand wound care education, assessments, and services at your harm reduction program. We’ll start with a foundation in understanding types of wounds, skin and soft tissue infections, and how to identify what services may be needed based on symptoms. Then, we’ll explore how best to […]

This training addresses the challenges frontline workers often experience when working with clients  who return to drug use after an extended period of abstinence. Throughout the course of the training, participants will have the opportunity to review the research underscoring the chronic nature of problematic substance use and define transference and counter transference in the client/provider relationship. Through a series of […]

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 […]

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 […]

This training addresses the challenges frontline workers often experience when working with clients  who return to drug use after an extended period of abstinence. Throughout the course of the training, participants will have the opportunity to review the research underscoring the chronic nature of problematic substance use and define transference and counter transference in the client/provider relationship. Through a series of […]

This training equips behavioral health providers and public health workers in the San Francisco Bay Area with practical, youth-centered approaches to engaging adolescents in harm reduction practices. Grounded in core principles, the training emphasizes meeting teens and young adults where they are at, reducing stigma, supporting autonomy, and safer decision-making. Participants will gain a foundational […]

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 substance use […]

Training Overview: More than 50% of people who have a substance use disorder have a co-occurring mental health disorder.  It is the rule, not the exception, with trauma almost universal among people who misuse substances.  Yet more than half of young people who misuse drugs will mature out of a problematic relationship with drugs by […]

Training Overview: The goal of this session is to provide general guidelines for preventing and managing conflict, as well as concrete and practical strategies to address conflict when it arises. We will discuss what conflict looks like, the role of stigma and trauma in conflict, and how to build personal skills in self-management and safety […]

Training overview: Meaningful involvement of people who use drugs can increase support for harm reduction policy and advocacy efforts; challenge myths related to drug use, HIV, and viral hepatitis; and reframe the narrative supporting criminalization. Opportunities for job training and employment are in themselves an important component of harm reduction in communities of people who use drugs. […]