Secondary Prevention Organizations
These organizations and grassroots efforts provide secondary prevention services, which focus on reducing risks associated with certain behaviors (such as substance use or other high-risk activities) without requiring full abstinence.
Secondary prevention organizations take a practical, supportive approach to care, aiming to “meet participants where they are,” while offering resources to improve health and safety. This often involves low-barrier care, outreach to impacted communities and welcoming participants regardless of their readiness or capacity to change specific behaviors.
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)