Training Overview:
This training is designed primarily for service providers without formal mental health training. The training provides an overview of trauma and mental health issues, roots of trauma and how harm reduction can be a tool/framework that can help us a practitioner understand and unpack the way trauma impacts our participants’ lives and our work. Case examples highlighting realistic expectations and effective responses will be discussed, with particular attention to people with co-occurring disorders (mental illness and substance use) in the context of harm reduction programs and settings.
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
- Define trauma.
- Identify three different mental health symptoms as it relates to drug use.
- Identify risk factors for substance use as it relates to people living with mental.illness or with other mental health conditions.
- Identify three strategies for working with substance users experiencing trauma.
Organized by: The Harm Reduction Training Institute and the National Harm Reduction Coalition.
