PRACTICAL STRATEGIES
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Trainings
Practical Strategies offers a variety of workshops and resources designed to help you and your team better serve your community. All training programs are designed using principles of adult learning theory, incorporating experiential learning whenever possible. Through activities, guided discussions, and reflections, participants gain more than just knowledge; they learn to apply it.
Topics may include principles and core concepts of harm reduction, person-centered care, risks and risk reduction, harm reduction history, evidence-based models, and more.
Harm Reduction Fundamentals
Topics may include the science of overdose and naloxone, compassionate response, rescue breathing, bag valve masks, risk reduction, Good Samaritan law and more
Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND) ToT
Topics may include trauma and the nervous system, mental health crises, verbal and non-verbal communication, environmental awareness, co-regulation, grounding, transformative justice, and more.
Trauma-informed De-escalation
Topics may include stigma, person-centered care, non-verbal communication, OARS, trauma-informed care, unconditional positive regard, evidence-based harm reduction practices, and more.
Person-centered Engagement
Topics may include resolving ambivalence, active listening skills, rapport, OARS, non-verbal communication, self-efficacy, motivation scales, action planning, rolling with resistance, relapse prevention, and more.
Motivational Interviewing
Topics may include routes of administration, substance-specific risks, risk reduction strategies and supplies, safer injecting, overdose prevention, overamping, safer sex work, risk reduction counseling, and more
Risk Reduction ToT
Topics may include HIV, Hep B, Hep C, safe syringe collection and disposal, best practices for other potentially infectious material, standard operating procedures, PEP, and more.
Bloodborne Pathogens and Sharps Safety
Topics may include transmission and symptoms of HIV and Hepatitis C, treatment, prevention, testing, stigma, health disparities, and more
Basics of HIV and HCV
Topics may include social determinants of health, health policy, epidemiology, social norms, structural violence, and more.
Health Equity
Topics may include types and effects of grief, ambiguous loss, emotional regulation, resilience, ritual and mourning, policy and practice recommendations for organizations, and art activity.
Collective Grief
and Healing
Topics may include the history of drug policy in America, xenophobia, moral panic, misinformation, sensationalism, stigma, the iron law of prohibition, decriminalization, safe supply, and more.
The Overdose Crisis and the War on Drugs
Topics may include peer counseling strategies, self disclosure, trauma-informed assessments, warm handoffs, person-centered care, professional boundaries, participant advocacy, and more
Person-centered Care Coordination
Clients
Clients have included, the National Harm Reduction Coalition, Boston University School of Public Health, Harvard University School of Public Health, Behavioral Health Services, Inc., Simmons School of Social Work, Cal State Northridge School of Social Work, Northeastern University, Cambridge Police Department, Massachusetts State Senate, Inland Empire Harm Reduction, Onestop Harm Reduction, Plumas County Public Health Department, Fenway Community Health Center Department of Social Work and more.​
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