Training Overview:
This training is designed to help non-clinical service providers engage with their clients who use drugs around issues related to health care. It will explore the systemic and individual context in which people who use drugs (PWUD) seek health care and the unique challenges they face in accessing quality health care. The training will provide tools and strategies to offer clients when navigating the health care system, highlighting ways to strengthen and build a more positive relationship between clients who use drugs and their health care providers.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify some of the unique health care needs of PWUD.
• Identify different points of access to Healthcare for PWUD.
• Describe the institutional, social and behavioral factors that influence this, including drug related stigma.
• Develop strategies to assist PWUD in preparing for healthcare visits including decisions around when and how to disclose their drug use to medical providers.
• Identify strategies and tools to help clients who use drugs to build positive, trusting relationships with their health care provider.

Facilitator: Tanagra Melgarejo, MSW, National Harm Reduction Coalition

Organized by the Health and Recovery Training Institute