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Challenging Organizational Stigma: Providing Safer and More Inclusive Sexual Health, Harm Reduction and STBBI-Related Services

Workshop materials

During this interactive workshop, intended for frontline health and social service providers, program managers and administrators, participants will …

Source : Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)
Format: PDF
Published: 2017
Topics: Determinants of health, Challenging structural stigma, Harm reduction, Sexual health

Language Matters: Using Respectful Language in Relation to Sexual Health, Substance Use, STBBIs and Intersecting Sources of Stigma

Guide

This document aims to reduce stigma through the careful consideration of language associated with sexual health, substance use, and communities that …

Source : Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)
Format: PDF
Published: 2019
Topics: Determinants of health, Destigmatizing language, Sexual health

Overview of the Canadian Overdose Epidemic

Fact sheet/infographic

Download a printable PDF infographic visualizing supervised consumption services in the context of the Canadian overdose epidemic.

Source : WHY SCS
Format: PDF
Published: 2022
Topics: Harm reduction, Supervised consumption sites

Best Practice Recommendations for Canadian Harm Reduction Programs

Guide

Drug use practices that can lead to transmission of HIV, HCV, and other infections are pressing issues affecting communities throughout Canada. To st…

Source : Working Group on Best Practice for Harm Reduction Programs in Canada
Format: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Harm reduction, Harm reduction supplies

Project Inclusion: Confronting Anti-Homeless & Anti-Substance User Stigma in British Columbia

Report

Project Inclusion is a comprehensive study into the ways in which specific laws and policies in policing, health care, and the court system directly …

Source : Pivot Legal Society
Format: PDF
Published: 2018
Topics: Determinants of health, Stigma reduction, Health promotion, Substance use policy

Decolonizing Substance Use & Addiction

Video

A talk that explores the origins of addiction and substance use through an indigenous lens. To shed some light on today's overdose crisis in British …

Source : TED
Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2020
Topics: Determinants of health, Indigenous cultural safety, Population-specific resources

Decriminalize Now: Akia's Story

Video

Decriminalize Now: Akia's Story is a short, first-personal narrative film about the drug poisoning crisis — and daring to dream of a better future fo…

Source : HIV Legal Network
Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2021
Topics: Health promotion, Decriminalization

Strengthening Our Connections to Promote Life: A Life Promotion Toolkit for Indigenous Youth

Toolkit

Strengthening Our Connections to Promote Life: A Life Promotion Toolkit by Indigenous Youth was proposed to develop a youth-focused and youth-led res…

Source : Thunderbird Partnership Foundation
Format: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Determinants of health, Indigenous cultural safety, Anti-oppression, Upstream interventions, Population-specific resources

How To Be In The Room: A guidebook preparing people who use(d) drugs for engaging in drug policy processes

Guide

This guide is for PWUD who want to become involved with policy and decision-making processes. If you are new to this process, know it can be rewardin…

Source : Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs (CAPUD)
Format: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Health promotion, Substance use policy, Stigma and stigma reduction, Advocacy

Safer Supply Checklist

Checklist

This checklist was developed in collaboration with people who use drugs to identify the elements of effective safe supply.

Source : Collaborative Community Laboratory on Substance Use and Harm Reduction (Co/Lab)
Format: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Harm reduction, Safe supply, Supervised consumption sites