CAAN Communities, Alliances and Networks and Dr. Peter Centre are delighted to invite you to another virtual Community of Practice (CoP) Call on Indigenous-led trauma informed Harm Reduction training. This training is part of the national project, The Canoe and is free to attend. The Canoe aims to bring relevant, non-stigmatizing, context specific harm reduction practices for indigenous communities to the national stage.
This call will be held virtually and will focus on the following topic:
Holiday Blues from an Indigenous Perspective:
• Friday 20th December 2024 at 11 AM-12 noon Pacific time
• Register here: https://drpeter-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpf-qtqTooHd0Z1Yoa6dOCcGRnQKXtlXSc
• The facilitator for this session is Sherri Pooyak: You can find more information about Sherri here.
Please feel free to register yourself and/or or send out this invitation to your networks.
The objective of The Canoe is to:
• increase capacity of harm reduction service providers to provide culturally safe and stigma-free harm reduction services to Indigenous people.
• improve the cultural safety and stigma-free nature of the harm reduction services offered.
• Scale up wise practices nationally for culturally relevant, non-stigmatizing initiatives to meet the needs of target populations.
• Increase context-specific resources for harm reduction services that serve target populations in rural and mid-sized communities.
• Increase access to more spaces where Indigenous people are meaningfully engaged in harm reduction services.
• Nationally elevate the voices of Indigenous people and people with lived and living experience (PLLE)in responses to the overdose crisis; and
• Support Indigenous and non-Indigenous harm reduction organizations to increase their capacity to deliver harm reduction services to their Indigenous clients.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Project Lead Cherese Reemaul at [email protected]