Harm Reduction Organizations
These organizations and/or grassroots efforts offer harm reduction services – that is, services that recognize the inherent risks of certain behaviors (such as sex work, substance use) and seek to reduce those risks without requiring full abstinence.
Harm reduction organizations usually take a judgment-free approach and tend to, “meet participants where they are but not leave them there,” whether that’s by offering low-barrier care, traveling to impacted communities, and/or accepting participants regardless of their desire to stop the specific behavior(s).
Written Resources
- Lessons Learned: Harm Reduction-Public Safety Partnerships (May 2024)
- Overdose Risk Self-assessment: A Guide for Peer Specialists (September 2023)
- Maintaining Connection: Strategies to Manage a Virtual Harm Reduction Workplace (January 2023)
- Providing Harm Reduction Services in Native Communities: Key Considerations from a Facilitated Discussion (February 2022)
- Supporting Telehealth and Technology-assisted Services for People Who Use Drugs: A Resource Guide (November 2021)
Webinars
- The Power of Collaboration: Success Stories of Harm Reduction and Public Safety Partnerships to Prevent Overdose (November 2023)
- Emerging Practices in Xylazine Wound Care (June 2023)
- Tranq/Xylazine Overdose Response Training (May 2023)
- Community-driven Harm Reduction Innovation and Adaptation (June 2022)
- Establishing Culturally Centered Peer Support Services (May 2022)
- Leveraging Innovation and Technology to Care for People Who Use Drugs: Strategies from the Field (January 2022)
- Harm Reduction During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Strategies from the Field (August 2021)
- Wellness Strategies for Harm Reduction Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic (April 2021)