Harm Reduction 3.0: Liberatory Harm Reduction in Practice

March 16, 2027 to March 18, 2027

Learning Objectives:

• Introduce The Manitoba Harm Reduction Network, a model of a harm reduction organization
• Increase our knowledge of the role of anti-racism and anti- oppression in harm reduction
• Increase our knowledge of how social structures, systems, policies and practices make substance use harmful, including prohibition and colonization
• Increase our knowledge of how social structures impact our substance use decisions
• Challenge our understanding of substance use and "addiction" • Increase our knowledge of Harm Reduction: definition, examples, principles
• Challenge the concept of 'non-judgmental care' & how values and beliefs contextualize our work
• Increase our knowledge of risk-taking & why we engage in behaviours that we know could harm us
• Review the CARES model (Person-Centred Care, Advocacy, Referrals, Education, Supply Distribution)

Schedule:

March 16 - 18 (3 days)

Format:

In Person

Who Should Attend?

• Community members interested in improving their capacity to work with people impacted by substance use and misuse
• People who use drugs and other substances
• Service providers who work with people who use drugs including: Physicians, EMS, Primary Health Care Staff, Public Health Staff, Acute Care Staff, Mental Health Workers, Home Care Staff, Community Outreach Workers, Addictions Workers, Social Workers, Corrections & Probations
• Government & community service workers, outside of health, that work with people who use drugs including: EIA workers, CFS workers, Town employees, Educators, etc.

Trainer:

Shohan Illsley

Trainer Bio:

Shohan Illsley was raised in Northern Manitoba; The Pas, Opaskwayak Cree Nation, and Churchill. Her grandparents are settlers from Iceland, Scotland, and England. She is married to her high school sweetheart and is the mother of four children and grandmother to one grandchild. She resides with her family in Winnipeg. Shohan and her husband are raising their children with Indigenous knowledge and ceremony. They work everyday to incorporate the resistance of colonization and residential school into their children's identity.

Shohan is the Executive Director of the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network and has worked in harm reduction since 2000. Her work experience has included working with people who use drugs that are impacted by structural and colonial violence. Shohan works from the foundation that people are experts in their own lives.

Shohan has been facilitating harm reduction training since 2007 and the training has evolved to be delivered through an anti-racism and anti-oppression lens. Focusing on system harms, this training looks at more than individuals' substance use and is called "Harm Reduction 3.0, Beyond the Needle!"

Shohan completed a Master's of Science at the University of Manitoba. She was the recipient of a CIHR grant which funded a community based research project titled "What goes around: How peers use their social networks to share STBBI education and information." Shohan has since been the recipient of 2 additional CIHR grants.

Have Questions?

Contact Adesuwa Ero:

• Email: training@endhomelessnesswinnipeg.ca
• Phone: 204 793-5088

 

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