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Teaching Guide for 'Taking Care of Each Other' Indigenous Harm Reduction Video Series

Guide

FNHA and Vancouver Coastal Health worked with filmmaker Asia Youngman to create a video series about Indigenous Harm Reduction. These videos are a te…

Source : First Nations Health Authority (FNHA)
Format: PDF
Published: 2018
Topics: Harm reduction, Background information on harm reduction, Population-specific resources

Indigenizing Harm Reduction

Webinar

The Indigenous Wellness Team explores what harm reduction looks like from an Indigenous perspective, and how they facilitate dialogue with First Nati…

Source : First Nations Health Authority (FNHA)
Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2017
Topics: Harm reduction, Background information on harm reduction, Population-specific resources

UNITE: Disrupting Stigma for Better Care

Tool

The UNITE Project is a journey into understanding each other’s experiences of stigma to celebrate diversity and create change. Through UNITE, we aim …

Source : BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services (BCMHSUS), Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR)
Format: Link
Published: 2022
Topics: Equity centered approaches, Stories and perspectives

Indigenous Harm Reduction Principles and Practices: Fact Sheet

Fact sheet/infographic

The Indigenous Wellness Program at First Nations Health Authority is developing ‘Indigenous Harm Reduction’ principles and practices as a learning di…

Source : First Nations Health Authority (FNHA)
Format: PDF
Published: 2022
Topics: Background information on harm reduction, Harm reduction, Indigenous cultural safety, Population-specific resources

Involuntary Treatment: Criminalization by Another Name

Background document

This position paper is endorsed by organizations and individuals who call for the abolition of involuntary treatment, including opposition to the pas…

Source : Pivot Legal Society
Format: PDF
Published: 2023
Topics: Treatment and harm reduction, Substance use policy

Harm Reduction: A British Columbia Community Action Guide

Guide

This guide has been written to assist municipalities in British Columbia in taking a leadership and a facilitative role in reducing the level of drug…

Source : British Columbia Ministry of Health
Format: PDF
Published: 2005
Topics: Background information on harm reduction, Harm reduction

Canadian Drug Policy and a Fentanyl Sales Program

Webinar

Destinée aux médecins et aux IPS, cette présentation (en anglais) visait à expliquer le protocole de distribution de fentanyl sur ordonnance mis sur …

Source : Communauté de pratique médicale en dépendance (CPMD)
Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2023
Topics: Safe supply

Naloxone is Not Enough: Letters from the Heart of the Crisis

Report

The availability of naloxone as an emergency response intervention has been critical in saving lives. Modeling estimates that from January 2015 to Ma…

Source : BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), Toward the Heart
Format: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Stigma and stigma reduction, Stories and perspectives, Harm reduction, Naloxone, Health promotion, Substance use policy

Managed Alcohol Programs – Canadian Operational Guidance

Guide

To bridge the harm reduction gaps experienced by this population, a growing number of managed alcohol programs (MAPs) have been established in many c…

Source : British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU), Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR)
Format: PDF
Published: 2023
Topics: Managed alcohol programs