Harm Reduction is a best practice model supporting people who use substances. Harm Reduction is more than needle distribution-- it refers to policies, programmes and practices that aim to minimize negative health, social and legal impacts associated with drug use, drug policies and drug laws. Rather than focus on individual behaviour, the MHRN approach to harm reduction focuses on how systems create and exacerbate harms to people who use drugs and other oppressed groups, often by design and with intent. Harm reduction is grounded in justice and human rights. It focuses on positive change and on working with people without judgement, coercion, discrimination, or requiring that they stop using drugs as a precondition of support.
Facilitated by Solange Machado, Manitoba Harm Reduction Network (MHRN Brandon) and Ainslee Lockhart (volunteer and BU student)
Free and open to all!
Please attend any portion of the event as you are able. All registrants will receive a recording of the workshop.
Supported by the Margaret Laurence Endowment Fund held by Gender & Women’s Studies at Brandon University
