Harm Reduction in Recovery Services

This Peer Recovery Support Services Community of Practice session focuses on harm reduction and how harm reduction strategies can be used within recovery services. This session explores harm reduction as a practical, person-centered approach to reducing the negative consequences associated with substance use. Presenters and participants discuss how harm reduction can help people stay alive, reduce infection and overdose risk, build trust, access services, and move toward recovery on their own terms. Panelists also discuss the relationship between harm reduction and peer recovery support, including syringe service programs, naloxone distribution, recovery coaching, medication-assisted recovery, meeting people where they are, reducing stigma, honoring multiple pathways of recovery, and building stronger bridges between harm reduction and recovery communities. The session includes panel discussion, breakout group discussion, and report-outs focused on participants’ experiences with harm reduction, the value of harm reduction in recovery services, and challenges related to community understanding, stigma, legality, organizational culture, and implementation. This recording may be useful for peer recovery support workers, recovery community organizations, supervisors, volunteers, behavioral health providers, public health partners, and community members interested in understanding harm reduction as part of recovery support. Objectives / Topics Covered Participants will explore: ● Harm reduction strategies used in recovery services. ● The value of harm reduction in reducing overdose, infection, stigma, and barriers to care. ● How harm reduction and peer recovery support can work together. ● Challenges related to community buy-in, abstinence-based expectations, legality, stigma, and service access. 🗓️ Recorded: January 13, 2021 🕛 Duration: One hour and forty-nine minutes 🎥 Hosted by: Peer Recovery Support Services Community of Practice ▶️ Subscribe for more Community of Practice trainings: https://tinyurl.com/3hfhvphh 🌐 Learn more about the New Hampshire Technical Assistance Center: https://nhtac.org/ 📄 View previous technical assistance projects, publications, and research: https://nhtac.org/publications-and-re...