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Community Building

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Community organising is both an art and a strategy. These resources focus on how to bring people together around shared needs, build local power, and grow strong grassroots networks rooted in equity, inclusion, and sustainability.

Ontario Open Library and specifically Community Development Practice: From Canadian and Global Perspectives

Solutions Project, specifically their Guide to Community Organizing

People’s Action

Highlander Movement School

Racial Equity Tools section on Community Organizing resources

Connexions and specifically their Organizing Resources information

Resources for Organizing and Social Changing

Other sets of external resources including toolkits, practical guides, and deep-dive materials on topics like de-escalation, mental health support, participant accountability, overdose response, and more:

Featured Hacks

These featured hacks highlight creative, practical solutions from harm reduction leaders on the ground. From DIY tools to clever workarounds, each one reflects the ingenuity, care, and real-world experience that keeps this movement alive. 

Hacks for Reaching Affirmation & Accord

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One of the main goals of active listening with an agitated person is reaching affirmation and accord. You are looking to try and find ways to agree with the person who is agitated. Even if you don’t entirely agree with the person, try to find at least a small way in which they may be right, or in which you can be on the same page, or team, with them.
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Principles of Harm Reduction

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These principles were developed over a period of about four years in the 1990s amid much debate among early harm reductionists, who came to consensus on these enduring principles of harm reduction.
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