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 case interventions.
Prerequisites: Foundations of Harm Reduction training in the last 6 months. Direct service work for the past year.
Training objectives:
At the conclusion of this training, participants should be able to:
- Identify three ways they can concretely integrate the six principles of harm reduction to their practice
- List three harm reduction strategies to tackle potential challenges that may come up when working with participants who use drugs
- Develop an awareness to recognize when they are effectively infusing harm reduction principles to client interventions
Facilitator: Alixe Dittmore
Organized by: The Harm Reduction Training Institute and the National Harm Reduction Coalition.
