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Emotional Health Resources, Trauma and Resilience

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Trauma-informed approaches are essential to harm reduction. Here you’ll find information on trauma, resilience, mental health first aid, and emotional wellbeing—both for those you support and for your own care and longevity.

Trauma & Recovery

Trauma Research Foundation

Trauma Resource Center

Cleveland Clinic has a Guide to Trauma in their Health Library

ACE Aware maintains a Resource and Information Section

Trauma Informed Service Provision

SAMHSA Tip Sheet #57 and their Practical Guide for Implementing a

Trauma-Informed Approach

Manitoba Trauma Information and Education Centre has a number of Resources including a Trauma Informed Toolkit

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center has a guide for Creating Trauma Informed Services

Positive Psychology & Resilience

UPenn has the Authentic Happiness Center

Yale has a famous Science of Wellbeing class

International Positive Psychology Association

The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley

Mindful.org

Grateful Living

Mental Health & MH First Aid

National Alliance of Mental Illness, NAMI hosts a wide variety of Support and Education information

Mental Health First AID from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing

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. 

Edie Springer’s Worker Stances for Clients Who Use Drugs & Harm Reduction Worker: Best Practices

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Harm reduction immediately resonated for Edie, who was herself a former drug user and methadone patient. Faced with the devastation of HIV’s impact on drug-using communities, Edie fully embraced harm reduction and trained hundreds of harm reduction workers who have carried her legacy with them. She developed these worker stances in 1996 and they have been shared among many of us in the harm reduction community for generations.
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Creating and Defining Community

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Over and over, harm reduction leaders interviewed for Space Hacks centered the creation of community as central to their efforts to create safe, humane harm reduction spaces services that are trauma-informed and minimize the potential for escalated situations.
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