There is a 2 year Harm Reduction project being coordinated by AIDS Saint
John right now, funded through Health Canada. It's a group of youth
giving presentations to their peers AND to parents with info around harm
reduction and for parents, around educating their kids about HR. For
more info, contact [log in to unmask]

Debbie Eden
HealthNet


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Subject: Re: [CLICK4HP] harm reduction interventions and upcoming course

In thinking about the recent posting asking about youth harm reduction
projects, I was reminded of a large harm reduction project with youth
that
took place about 8 years ago in Toronto, Canada through the Centre for
Addiction & Mental Health, and was evaluated by the Health Promotion
program at the University of Toronto (principal investigator Blake
Poland).  The primary contact person is on sabbatical right now, but it
should be possible to find the resources that were developed through the
community action research project.

The Street-Involved Youth Harm Reduction Project was described in the
Ontario Health Promotion E-bulletin (OHPE) on Harm Reduction in November
1997. That issue can be seen at:
http://ohpe.ca/ebulletin/ViewFeatures.cfm?ISSUE_ID=31&startrow=190

It was also published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health
Poland, Blake D.; et al. "Involving Street Youth in Peer Harm Reduction
Education: The Challenges of Evaluation." Canadian Public Health
Association, 2002. vol 93, 5 pp. 344-348. Available though medical/
university libraries. (no electronic version available)


> ... project in Sydney, Australia, with 'at risk' youth. The project
aims
to decrease Hep C rates in young people with a harm minimisation focus.
The project is looking at young people who are at risk of transitioning
from other routes of drug administration to injecting.
>
> I will be developing an intervention to somehow prevent this
transition.
> I would greatly appreciate any advise or details of any other similar
> programs that have been run and evaluated.
>

Related to the issues of Harm Reduction is an upcoming course at York
University in Toronto. The instructor - Diane Riley - may also be a good
contact for more information of evaluated projects. The information on
the
course follows below.

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Continuing Education course in HARM REDUCTION - York University
Professional Enrichment Program

HARM REDUCTION

The Division of Continuing Education, York University

Are you a practitioner, administrator or policy advisor / analyst
interested in gaining a better understanding of Harm Reduction and in
implementing Harm Reduction policies and practice within your
organization
and community?

Harm Reduction

This 24-hour non-credit course is designed to introduce service
providers,
administrators and policy makers to the basic principles, philosophy and
application of Harm Reduction.

Harm Reduction refers to a specific set of approaches, and the
corresponding policies that underlie those approaches, aimed at reducing
the harms for people who use drugs. It focuses on issues of health
promotion and social justice in addressing the needs of this population,
rather than on abstinence and suppression. Canada's Drug Strategy, the
Canadian Strategy on HIV/AIDS, and the Hepatitis C Prevention, Support
and
Research Program all highlight the need for enhanced Harm Reduction
programming.

This course will be of value to a broad range of practitioners / service
providers, administrators and policy advisors / analysts interested in
gaining a better understanding of Harm Reduction and of how to implement
Harm Reduction policy and practice within their organizations and
communities.

Please note that, upon completion of this course, you are eligible to
receive 24-hours of Continuing Education Credits from the Canadian
Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation.

DATE: April 11-14, 2005 (Monday-Thursday) 9am-5pm

INSTRUCTOR: Diane Riley PhD
Diane Riley is a founding member of the Canadian Foundation for Drug
Policy ( <http://www.cfdp.ca/> ), for which she is a drug policy
analyst,
and of the International Harm Reduction Association (
<http://www.ihra.net/> ). She was a member of the UNAIDS Programme
Coordinating Board as a representative of North American NGOs 1999-2003.

Following the receipt of Her Ph.D. is in Psychophysiology (University of
Toronto, 1983) and her post-doctoral research at the Addiction Research
Foundation (Toronto), Dr. Riley studied the socio- and bio-behavioural
effects of drug use for more than twenty years, working in Australia,
Canada, England, Papua-New Guinea, Sweden, the United States and Central
Asia. From 1990 to 1996 she was Senior Policy Analyst with the Canadian
Centre on Substance Abuse. Her work since then has involved reviewing
drug
policies and programmes in countries such as Canada, Poland and
Uzbekistan.

In Toronto, Dr. Riley worked with community groups to set up the city's
first bleach kit programs and syringe exchanges.

Dr. Riley's publications are in the areas of drug policy & treatment,
HIV/AIDS, harm reduction, learning theory, psychophysiology and drug
education. She wrote the background paper for the Canadian Senate
Committee inquiry into drug policy ( <http://www.cfdp.ca/> www.cfdp.ca).

Dr. Riley has taught at the University of Toronto since 1978.

LOCATION:
York University, Glendon Campus (Bayview and Lawrence), Toronto, ON

COST: $475 plus GST (this includes all program materials)


Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Marina DeBona-Ross, Program and Logistics Manager
Division of Continuing Education, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and
Professional Studies (Room 107, Atkinson Building)
Email: [log in to unmask]
(Tel) 416-650-8049 (Fax) 416-650-8042

Web site: http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/harmreduction

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