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ForwardCommunity-Led and Directed Approaches to Advancing Harm Reduction
Harm Reduction Organizations are too often run by people without lived experience. Harm Reduction is being professionalized and is losing the spirit of community resilience. Drug user unions should lead and direct harm reduction initiatives to ensure they stay true to their core values.
Target Audience
This activity is designed for First Responders (Law Enforcement, EMS, Fire Department), local Health Department Board of Health Members, local Health Department Staff (Directors, Environmentalists, Peer Support Specialists, Harm Reduction Staff, Health Educators), Public Health and Healthcare Students, and any other interested public health professionals.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this educational activity, you will be able to:
- Explain how defining harm reduction as a public health intervention undermines the power of community led harm reduction approaches directed and carried out by PWID.
- Describe Drug Life Balance and other strategies to work more effectively with PWUD
- Describe Onboarding as a strategy for working with government and formal harm reduction groups to effectively develop meaningful engagement.
- Discuss the role and history of peer led movements in the US
- Discuss the importance of MAT REFORM
- Develop a low threshold employment model/ policy for harm reduction groups.
Faculty & Credentials
Louise B. Vincent, MPH, MS
Executive Director and Harm Reduction Consultant
North Carolina Urban Survivors' Union
Leadership Team
National Urban Survivors Union
Greensboro, North Carolina
Disclosure Information
No speakers, planners, or reviewers have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses.
Content review confirmed that the content was developed in a fair, balanced manner free from commercial bias. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by University of Kentucky HealthCare CECentral and the Kentucky Department of Public Health. University of Kentucky HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Available Credit
- 0.92 Certified Health Education Specialist Credit (Western Kentucky University Department of Public Health)
Sponsored by Department of Public Health, Western Kentucky University, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 0.92 total Category I continuing education contact hour(s). Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available are 0. Continuing Competency credit is 0.92. Provider ID# 105862, Event ID# Provider #105862 Event #64010.
- 1.00 ParticipationUK Healthcare CECentral certifies this activity for 1.00 hour(s) of participation.