Events

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 […]

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 who are […]

Training Overview: Realities of youth drug use, prevalence, and maturing out.  How society impacts youth drug use and peer and social pressure. Drug use, developmental stage, and change in internal and external perception. Harm Reduction strategies for working with young people and drug use; questions for young people to consider and managing ourselves and our […]

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 […]