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Hacks for Organizational Accountability & Transparency Using Restorative and Transformative Justice

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Organizational response to escalated or harmful events must include consideration for the community of people who witnessed or were otherwise impacted by the situation. It’s extremely important to be as transparent as possible and to make next steps, timelines, and expectations really clear to everyone involved.

Organizational response might include an all-community meeting, informing people about what’s going on and making space for people to vent about how they’re feeling. Long-time harm reduction leaders say that in the middle of a crisis, you are at a crossroad as an organization; you can either use it as an opportunity to heal and pull in your community thereby strengthening it or it can be the thing that fractures it. But whatever you do, be cautious, because escalated or harmful situations can have a way of getting out of hand and harming more than the people immediately party to them.

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. 

Consent Culture

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The concept of “consent culture” emerged from the sex positive movement of the 1980s and 90s. It was a response to the concept of “rape culture”, a term that had been coined to describe the experience that many people—especially women, queer and trans people—have of sexual violence and harassment.
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Hacks for Service and Supply Management

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Many of the harm reduction leaders that were interviewed for Space Hacks talked about how critical it is to effectively manage services, supplies, and inventory in order to maintain community tranquility. It may not feel intuitive, but OGs report that ineffective management of supplies is the number one potential flashpoint for escalated situations during harm reduction services.
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