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Supervised Consumption Sites and Harm Reduction Policy: Challenges, Strategy and Collaboration
Webinar
As controversy surrounding the Mobile Overdose Prevention Site (MOPS) launched by Sunshine House has demonstrated, interplay among community need, ef…
Source : Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2023
Topics: Supervised consumption sites, Substance use policy
Structural Stigma – Personal Experience Stories
Video
People were asked share how structural stigma impacts their access to health-care services. These are the stories they shared. “Access Denied” – ho…
Source : Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC)Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2021
Topics: Challenging structural stigma, Stories and perspectives
Global coverage of interventions to prevent and manage drug-related harms among people who inject drugs: a systematic review
Academic article
Harm reduction and treatment programmes are essential for reducing harms for people who inject drugs (PWID). We aimed to update estimates from a 2017…
Source : The Lancet Global HealthFormat: PDF
Published: 2023
Topics: Treatment and harm reduction
Cross-Cultural Series #2: Drug Use, Harm Reduction, and Working with People Who Use Drugs
Webinar
The second of three trainings to introduce learners to harm reduction, designed for Indigenous and settler ethno-cultural HIV/AIDS organizations. Par…
Source : Ontario Harm Reduction Network (OHRN)Format: Link
Published: 2020
Topics: Background information on harm reduction, Why people use substances, Spectrum of substance use
Implementing Smoking Rooms in Supervised Consumption Sites: Key lessons
Webinar
This discussion-centred roundtable was focused on implementing supervised smoking/inhalation rooms in drug consumption sites. Service providers and p…
Source : Public Health Ontario (PHO)Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2023
Topics: Supervised consumption sites
Engaging people who use drugs to build organizational capacity
Online learning module
This course addresses a topic that is never settled. Agencies, programs, and individuals involved in harm reduction can always deepen and improve eng…
Format: LinkPublished: 2022
Topics: Challenging structural stigma, Best practices and engagement toolkits
“Nothing About Us Without Us” - Greater, Meaningful Involvement of People Who Use Illegal Drugs: A Public Health, Ethical, and Human Rights Imperative
Background document
This booklet summarizes the main issues addressed in the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network’s paper on greater involvement of people who use illegal dru…
Source : HIV Legal NetworkFormat: PDF
Published: 2005
Topics: Best practices and engagement toolkits
A Culturally Relevant Gender Based Analysis Framework
Toolkit
This resource blends an Indigenous, anti-oppressive, trauma informed approach to gender-based analysis. This considers colonization, the imposition o…
Source : Native Women's Association of CanadaFormat: PDF
Published: 2020
Topics: Trauma - and violence - informed approaches and gender-informed responses, Indigenous cultural safety
From Stilettos to Moccasins
Video
A community-based research project with Indigenous women healing from substance use and problems with the law, created in 2009. This project led to t…
Source : Thunderbird Partnership Foundation, Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), University of SaskatchewanFormat: Audiovisual
Published: 2009
Topics: Indigenous cultural safety
Living Health Equity Values In Public Health Organizations: A Review And Dialogue-Based Tool
Tool
This document summarizes literature and practice evidence about identifying and applying organizational values to support health equity action by pub…
Source : National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH)Format: PDF
Published: 2018
Topics: Planning for equity, Equity centered approaches