Community Based Harm Reduction Programs and Practices in Canada
Impressions from the Road - June 2007
Learning From Each Other: Enhancing Community-Based Harm Reduction Programs and Practices in Canada is the final report on the research undertaken by the Canadian Harm Reduction Network and the Canadian AIDS Society on useful and innovative harm reduction programs and practices in nine small-to-medium-sized cities in Canada ... and some of the ways that challenges to them are being met. The report draws on information from focus groups with people who use services in these cities, agency visits and community walk-abouts, and is illustrated with photographs taken en route.
LEARNING FROM EACH OTHER: Enhancing Community-Based Harm Reduction Programs and Practices in Canada (PDF Version)
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Where We Went
- St. John's NL
- St. John's, NL
- Halifax, NS
- Halifax, NS
- Quebec, QC
- Quebec, QC
- Rouyn-Noranda, QC
- Rouyn-Noranda, QC
- Ottawa, ON
- Ottawa, ON
- Winnipeg, MB
- Winnipeg, MB
- Edmonton, AB
- Edmonton, AB
- Victoria, BC
- Victoria, BC
- Whitehorse, YT
- Whitehorse, YT
- Produced By Helen McIlroy, Toronto, Canada
- Comment Posted By: dr jay, 2008-06-22
- Comment Posted By: charlene winger, 2008-06-23
- Comment Posted By: Walter Cavalieri, 2008-06-27
- Comment Posted By: Rob helbak, 2008-06-28
- Comment Posted By: Walter Cavalieri, 2008-06-29
Add a Commentwe must take this to the street Harper out
If you are looking for another voice of methadone consumer for your advisory, I can recommend someone, a young male in his late 20's, who has been a polysubstance user for 10 years and is now in recovery (still on the methadone program and doing well) and who is very articulate and well educated please let me know.
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Hi, Charlene ...
This project is effectively over. We have used up our funding and met our deadline. So, the advisor committee has been disbanded. However, we are looking for new and creative ways to utilise the information we have gathered - and new and creative ways to get funding! If the young man you referred to is interested in some type of involvement in harm reduction, please have him contact me using the “Contact Us” link on the home page of the web site.
Thanks for your interest ...
I was a participant in one of the focus groups. It is great to see the results. Harm reduction kept me alive, so lets keep working to get our voices heard. Mr. Harper needs to be shown fthat addicts can be productive members os society, if allowed to be.
Hey Rob ..
I am really pleased that you have taken the time to look at the report ...
We are going to have to work hard to get harm reduction on the agenda for the next election (soon, I hope) and get politicians to publicly support it. It amazing how hostile many of them still are toward proven programs like needle exchange and how willingly they embrace the idea of stupid and counterproductive things like mandatory minimums, which do not work. And how much public support they get for their often outrageous rants. Users have special knowledge. They must got together and speak truth to power, and they will have to find a way to do it without government money.