This presentation was part of the 6th Annual Mobile Mental Health Crisis Response Summit.
Many individuals in crisis are suffering from co-occurring disorders and have been subjected to judgment, stigmas, and a loss of autonomy. Addressing a crisis through a harm reduction lens will increase feelings of dignity and empowerment with its person-centered approach. With compassion at the center, there is a lot we can learn from harm reduction that carries over into crisis intervention.
Learning Objectives:
1)Harm reduction is an evidence-based approach to recovery and many tools used within this approach can carry over to crisis response.
2) Harm reduction sees the person, not the problem. This results in an approach that is person-centered, collaborative, and focused on dignity. 3) By reducing the stigmas associated with harm reduction, we can also reduce stigmas faced by people with substance use disorder and mental health disorders opening the door to recovery conversations within crisis response.
Content Level: General level: Covers crisis response basics and terminology.|Innovation: Designed to highlight new learnings, strategies or lines of thinking.
Presenter: Jennifer Fukuda, Graduate Student, Addiction & Recovery Services Program Coordinator – Jewish Family & Children’s Services
Bio: Jennifer has a passion working and volunteering with underrepresented marginalized communities and believes person-centered responses benefit crisis response. Approaching crisis with a harm reduction lens reduces the stigmas, meets people where they are, and focuses on connection and dignity. As a current NBCC Minority Fellow and graduate student at Hazelden Betty Ford’s Graduate School for Addiction Studies, Jennifer is focused on the role harm reduction plays in times of crisis and how this can impact a person’s road to recovery.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 1 Lesson
- 10 Weeks
