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Harm Reduction Satellite Sites Program Guide Launch

Webinar

This is a recording of the webinar held on October 26, 2020, launching the Harm Reduction Satellite Sites Program Guide. The term “Satellite sites” i…

Source : Alliance for Healthier Communities, Ontario Harm Reduction Network (OHRN)
Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2020
Topics: Harm reduction, Housing

Pandemic Proof: Synthesizing Real-World Knowledge of Promising Mental Health and Substance Use Practices Utilized During the COVID-19 Pandemic with Young People Who Are Experiencing or Have Experienced Homelessness

Report

The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting societal inequities in an unprecedented manner. Young people who are experiencing or have experienced homelessn…

Source : Homeless Hub
Format: PDF
Published: 2020
Topics: Harm reduction, Housing

Exploring Low-barrier, Gender-focused Approaches to Housing

Online learning module

Women and gender-diverse people who are multiply marginalized face unique barriers to accessing emergency shelter, housing and housing support. Low-b…

Source : Homeless Learning Hub
Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2021
Topics: Harm reduction, Housing, Population-specific resources

Homelessness Among Women & Gender-Diverse People

Online learning module

This training will explore the causes and conditions of homelessness among women and gender-diverse people. Women and gender-diverse people have uniq…

Source : Homeless Learning Hub
Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2021
Topics: Harm reduction, Housing, Population-specific resources

Soutenir les personnes utilisatrices de substances dans les centres d’accueil pendant la pandémie de la COVID‑19 : Guide pratique national

Guide

Le présent guide pratique vise à soutenir les organisations qui exploitent des centres d’accueil nouvellement créés ou établis et qui doivent fournir…

Source : Initiative canadienne de recherche en abus de substance (ICRAS), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Format: PDF
Published: 2020
Topics: COVID-19 resources, Harm reduction, Housing

Conversations of Substance with Guest Deirdre Freiheit

Podcast

The Conversations of Substance podcast series asks difficult questions and suggests multiple answers to complex issues around people’s health with re…

Source : CAPSA
Format: Audiovisual
Published: 2022
Topics: Harm reduction, Housing, Determinants of health, Trauma - and violence - informed approaches and gender-informed responses

Harm Reduction Satellite Sites: A Guide for Operating Harm Reduction Hubs from the Homes of People Who Use Drugs

Guide

This program guide was developed based on the experiences of two Toronto-based community health centres developing Satellite site programming out of …

Source : Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre, South Riverdale Community Health Centre
Format: PDF
Published: 2020
Topics: Harm reduction, Housing

Drug use, homelessness and health: responding to the opioid overdose crisis with housing and harm reduction services

Academic article

Canada is in the midst of an opioid overdose crisis and Alberta has one of the highest opioid use rates across the country. Populations made vulnerab…

Source : Harm Reduction Journal
Format: PDF
Published: 2022
Topics: Harm reduction, Housing, Substance-specific resources

This is Not Home: Policy Brief

Fact sheet/infographic

This policy brief outlines key findings and policy recommendations from This is Not Home (TINH) - a community-based, participatory research project t…

Source : Homeless Hub
Format: PDF
Published: 2021
Topics: Harm reduction, Housing, Determinants of health, Trauma - and violence - informed approaches and gender-informed responses, Population-specific resources

Learning Together: Emergency Shelters and Substance Use Centres Knowledge Summary - Plan for COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 Care

Report

Across Canada, over 140 emergency shelters and substance use facilities joined Learning Together to strengthen their pandemic response and recovery. …

Format: PDF
Published: 2022
Topics: Housing