AGENDA BOOKLET
9th National Harm Reduction Conference
November 15–18, 2012 Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel
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CO-SPONSORS: AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts • CODA, Inc • Cascade AIDS Project • Drug Policy Alliance • Exhale Yoga Studio • HAMS • Harm Reduction Psychotherapy Center • Helping Individual Prostitutes Sur vive • Hepatitis C Caring Ambassadors Program • Hepatitis C Support Project • HIV Prevention Justice Alliance • Housing Works, Inc. • Mindfulness-Based Therapy • Moderation Management Network • Multnomah County Health Department • National Advocates for Pregnant Women • National Alliance for Medication Assisted Recover y • National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors • National Native American AIDS Prevention Center • National Minority AIDS Council • North American Syringe Exchange Network • North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Inc. • November Coalition • Our House • Outside In • Partnership Project • Portland Harm Reduction Therapy Center • Portland Overdose Prevention Project • Siloam International • Street Roots • VOCAL-NY Users Union INTERNATIONAL SPONSORS: Canadian Harm Reduction Network • Caribbean Harm Reduction Coalition • Intercambios Asociación Civil (Argentina) • International Doctors for Healthy Drug Policies • International Harm Reduction Development Program • Psicotropicus—Brazilian Drug Policy Center SUPPORTING SPONSORS: Alma O’Connor • amfAR • Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS • Comer Foundation • Foundation to Promote Open Society • Genentech • Gilead Sciences • H van Ameringen Foundation • Irene Diamond Fund • Kadmon Pharmaceuticals • MAC AIDS • Phogg Foundation
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Dear Friends: Harm Reduction Coalition is pleased to announce the 9th National Harm Reduction Conference to be held November 15–18, 2012 in Portland, Oregon at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel. The National Harm Reduction Conference is the largest harm reduction gathering in the country, bringing together over 1,000 people who serve on the front lines of our nation’s largest public health emergencies such as problematic drug use, mass incarceration, HIV, hepatitis C, overdose, lack of housing and inadequate healthcare. The theme of this year's conference is “From Public Health to Social Justice”. The conference will place special emphasis on reconnecting the harm reduction movement to its roots. Communities, especially the drug using community, need to be the central driving force behind harm reduction. Nationally and globally, harm reduction is increasingly being reduced to a series of interventions such as HIV testing, syringe exchange, and access to medicationassisted drug treatment. Although, these are critical services, harm reduction did not begin as a set of isolated practices and interventions. Rather it evolved of communities insisting on full social inclusion and drug user rights. Services void on these values sell the history and spirit of harm reduction short. Together, we can commit to making social inclusion and social justice for drug users a global priority. The 9th National Harm Reduction Conference will provide an important opportunity to engage in dialogue, share experiences and formulate our strategy for action. Join us! See you in Portland.
Allan Clear Executive Director
Safety Disclosure Statement While the conference is a place to challenge ideas, philosophies and approaches for reducing drug-related harm, it is not a forum for judging any individual’s personal choices about drug use. The Harm Reduction Coalition requests and expects, but cannot guarantee, that attendees’ confidentiality will be respected and upheld.
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CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES • P rovide a safe forum for the exchange of information, ideas, and strategies for incorporating harm reduction into direct services, public policy, and individual lives • Offer technical information on program development and implementation • Present current examples of effective harm reduction services and policies • Encourage a dialogue between individuals from diverse disciplines, backgrounds, and personal experiences, including drug users and those with a history of drug use • Explore and analyze our own attitudes about and relationships to drugs and drug users
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONFERENCE SERVICES Child Care
Room: Salmon
Exhibit Hall
Salon: F – I
Open Space
Salon: E
Yoga
Room: Mount Hood
Film Festival
Room: Columbia
Sponsors
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Welcome
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Safety Disclosure Statement
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Conference Objectives
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O P E N S PAC E
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Thursday
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Friday 10
Saturday 16
Conference at a Glance 18
Sunday 27
Posters 30
Exhibitors 31
Program Committee 32
Research Committee 32
Local Organizing Committee 32
Harm Reduction Coalition Office
Room: Salem
Harm Reduction Coalition Staff 33
12-Steps Meeting
Salon: B
Harm Reduction Coalition Board of Directors 33
Mission Statement 33
GRASP (Grief Salon: C Recovery After A Substance Passing) Meeting
design: worksight
Maintenance Group Salon: G Moderation Salon: H Management Group
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OPEN SPACE AT THE 9TH NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION CONFERENCE
Creating Space for Critical Conversations In recent years, there has been a growing interest in collecting the invaluable conversations that often happen outside of our traditional conference sessions—you know, the ones in the hotel lobby, after (and during) sessions, out to dinner, on the soccer field, at the bar, etc. We have also heard from many of you that rigorous, timely conversations need to happen given the influence that medicalization, reductions and shifts in funding, and persistent and escalating social and economic inequity is having on our work. So we are offering something new at this conference, a simultaneous Open Space where conference participants create your own agenda. What will actually happen? On Thursday afternoon in Salon E, we will open a conference Commons: a space where participants can invite each other into conversations and, through Graphic Recording, make visible the connections, insights, strategies and actions that we create together. Salon E will be available every afternoon for these conversations. In addition, participants will be invited to bring back insights and actions that emerge from those spontaneous conversations that happen at the bar, dinner, etc. The process will be lightly structured through a practice called Open Space Technology, where anyone who takes personal responsibility for hosting a conversation can announce its time and location on the Commons wall. Whoever is drawn to that conversation can participate. Highlights, insights and actionable steps are by the conversation group and returned to the Harvest wall. Follow-up actions are up to conference participants. This process is not designed to create an action plan or recommendations for Harm Reduction Coalition. This is an opportunity to find each other around common passion and possibility and to take responsibility for carrying the work forward.
We invite our elders to bring the wisdom of our origins, failures and successes…our grassroots leaders and conference participants who are directly affected by structural inequity to keep us grounded in purpose…our emerging leaders to bring their innovation, impatience and willingness to keep the torch burning…our thinkers and researchers to offer edgy questions as well as analysis. Most important, it is an invitation for everyone to draw on our harm reduction principles in order to create an environment together where open, honest conversation can allow us to move forward wisely.
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Design Team & Hosts Harm Reduction Coalition staff members Michael Everett, Skylar Panuska, Anistla Rugama and Paula Santiago have been designing this process with Allen Frimpong, Kelly McGowan, and Avril Orloff who will be the Open Space hosts throughout the conference. Allen Kwabena Frimpong (a.kwabena@gmail.com), formerly a capacity building provider with Harm Reduction Coalition, is presently the Program Manager for Living Cities Integration Initiative in Newark, NJ. Allen is passionate about the health and well-being of individuals and families in poverty and works tirelessly to empower and bring resources to grassroots change efforts in the US and abroad. Kelly McGowan (GoingUpstream.net) first joined movement building efforts for racial and economic justice through the housing committee of ACT-UP, syringe exchange activism in NYC and queer and transgender rights. Kelly offers participatory learning, strategy development, decision-making and action practices to social change organizations, groups and movements. Lisa Moore (lisadee@sfsu.edu) is co-founder and active board member of Harm Reduction Coalition, former member of Prevention Point, San Francisco, and an associate professor of Community Health Education at San Francisco State University. Lisa trains and supports our emerging leaders to practice public health with a social justice framework. Avril Orloff (avrilorloff.com) is a graphic facilitator who draws out people’s ideas by creating a visual record of dialogue. Avril combines words with images to distill the essence of a conversation and reveal the big picture, both literally and figuratively. Avril is happiest when she can add visual clarity to groups as they resolve complex issues and chart a clear path forward.
“Open Space is based in the belief that organizations and communities run on passion and responsibility. It allows groups of any size to self-organize around what they really care about to get things done.” —Peg Holman
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LUNCH: 1:00 p.m – 2:00 pm
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Room: Salon E 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
REGISTRATION: 8:30 am – 6:30 pm
Introducing the Self-Organizing Agenda
Location: Foyer
Join us for the opening of the self-organizing agenda! Before the panel sessions begin at 2:15 pm, we will introduce the Open Space principles and invite participants who are willing to step forward and host conversations to post their topic, time and location on the Commons wall. The Commons will include times and space in Salon E for the rest of Thursday and Friday afternoon as well as ‘anywhere-anytime’ spaces that you name and claim (i.e., how about announcing a gathering in the hotel bar after your networking group?)
WELCOME & OPENING: 10:00 am – 11:15 am Room: Salon E Moderator: Allan Clear, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY Welcoming from the harm reduction community including: Gary Oxman from Multnomah County Health Department; a video message from Director Gil Kerlikowski, Office of National Drug Control Policy; Senior Science Advisor Caleb BantaGreen, Office of National Drug Control Policy; and an update from the Drug User Organizing Pre-Conference. Why Open Space? What's Graphic Recording Got to Do with It? Why Now? Michael Everett, Skylar Panuska, and Anistla Rugama, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Room: Salon E 2:15 pm – 7:15 pm What time is it for Harm Reduction? Check-out the Commons wall in Salon E for conversations you might want to join that are being hosted by conference participants. Or take a look at the emerging Harvest wall for insights and themes that are emerging. -----------------------------------------------------------------
Lisa Moore, Harm Reduction Coalition Board Member, San Francisco, CA
BREAKOUT SESSION 1: Thursday, 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm
Allen Frimpong, Independent, Jersey City, NJ
Criminal Justice Reform
Kelly McGowan, Going Upstream, New York, NY
Room: Salon A
Avril Orloff, Independent, Vancouver, BC
Moderator: Kris Nyrop, The Defender Association, Seattle, WA
PLENARY SESSION I: 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
Crossing Boundaries: Civil Liberties, Criminal Justice & Harm Reduction
Room: Salon E
Mark Cooke, ACLU of Washington, Seattle, WA
Moderator: Anistla Rugama, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Chloe Gale, Evergreen Treatment Services, Seattle, WA
Getting Vocal: Getting Bills into Laws Bobby Tolbert, VOCAL-NY Users Union, Brooklyn, NY Nothing for Us, Without Us Zoë Dodd, The East Toronto Hepatitis C Program at Sherbourne Health Centre, Toronto, ON Heroin Assisted Treatment: Naomi Research Survivors & Advocates Dave Murray, NAOMI Patients Association, Vancouver, BC Visiting Hours: Drug Users Organizing Inside & Outside American Health Care Isaac Jackson, San Francisco Users’ Union, San Francisco, CA
Ian Goodhew, Deputy Director, King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Seattle, WA James Pugel, Seattle Police Department, Seattle, WA Workshop: HEALTH CARE REFORM & HARM REDUCTION Room: Salon B HIV, Hepatitis, Health Care Reform & Harm Reduction Rachel Mclean, CA Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA
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Crack Room: Salon C
Not My Job: The Role & Responsibility of Harm Reductionists in the Hep C Advocacy Movement
Moderator: Moya Brown, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Monique Tula, AIDS Action, Boston, MA
Beyond Stigma: Health Promotion with Crack Smokers Alli Kraus, Glide Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Program Collaboration & Integration
Paul Harkin, Glide Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Room: Salon G
PHRA Giving Stems to the Masses
Moderator: Jennifer Fuld, New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Long Island City, NY
Shilo Murphy, The People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, Seattle, WA Crack-Cocaine Smoking—An Experimental Model Zaher Mohammad Shehab, University of Bath—Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, United Kingdom
Integrating Harm Reduction in Rapid HIV Testing Brandon Baca, New Mexico AIDS Services, Albuquerque, NM Low Threshold, High Regard: Housing as Harm Reduction & Cultural Humility
Youth Work
Aimee Armata, Larkin Street Youth Services, San Francisco, CA
Room: Salon D
Parallel Process: Any Positive Change in Systems
Moderator: Skylar Panuska, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Valery Shuman, Heartland Health Outreach Harm Reduction Institute, Chicago, IL
Street Smart on the Lower East Side: Youth Based Programming in a Harm Reduction Setting
How to Be Successful in Multi-Agency Collaboration
Sadat Iqbal, Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center, New York, NY Opening the Door to Youth: Developing Youth-Specific Services in Traditional Harm Reduction Organizations Melissa Struzzo, HEPPAC, Oakland, CA The Gray Areas of Rape: A Harm Reduction Approach Rebecca DiMeo, Safe Horizon Streetwork Project, New York, NY
Andrew Gadbois, DePaul, Portland, OR Creative Harm Reduction Room: Eugene Moderator: Lazara Paz, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY Using Visual Communication in Community Health Outreach: Insights from a Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Harm Reduction
A Culturally Competent Approach to Working with Homeless Drug Using Youth
Sarah Dobbins, Independent, San Francisco, CA
Mary Howe, Homeless Youth Alliance, San Francisco, CA
Paul Cherashore, Harm Reduction Garden Project & INPUD, Philadelphia, PA
HEPATITIS C
The Power of Pets: Narrative Stories of Companion Homeless Pets & their Role in Harm Reduction
Room: Portland
Poppies to the People: Harm Reduction & Urban Farming
Moderator: Jon E. Zibbell, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA
Andréa Stella, The Space at Tompkins, New York, NY
Safer Injection 2.0: Beyond the Point
Claudia Figallo, UCSF—Alliance Health Project, Daly City, CA
Emily Winkelstein, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY Drug Injection Messiness, the Persistence of Hep C & the Failure of “Total Hygiene” Interventions Greg Scott, DePaul University, Chicago, IL Behavioral Counseling Based on the Sexual Transmission of HIV: Why it Might Not Be a Good Basis for Pre- & Post-Test Counseling for HCV Testing
Drugs & Creativity: A Support Group for Active Drug Users
WORKSHOP: Overdose Prevention 101 Room: Salon H William Matthews, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Peter Davidson, University of California, San Diego, CA
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Beginners Workshop: Harm Reduction & Sex Workers
Working at the Intersections: Ending the Criminalization of HIV
Room: Medford
Decriminalization of Substance Use & the Family
Working with Substance Using Sex Workers from a Harm Reduction Perspective
Antonio Cardoso, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA
Stephen Crowe, Harlem United, New York, NY
Jim Merrell, HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, Chicago, IL
Good Samaritan Room: Salon C
State of Syringe Exchange Room: MeadowLark
Moderator: Eliza Wheeler, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CA
Moderator: Alex H. Kral, RTI International, San Francisco, CA
Public Education & 911 Good Samaritan
Syringes in Paradise: 20 Years of Hawaii’s SEP
Kassandra Frederique, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY
Heather Lusk, CHOW Project, Honolulu, HI
911 Good Samaritan Advocacy
Current State of US Syringe Exchange Programs
Laura Thomas, Drug Policy Alliance, San Francisco, CA
Don Des Jarlais, Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
Getting to Zero with Overdose Deaths: 911 Good Samaritan, Naloxone & Policy Change to Save Lives
Evaluation of Small SEP: Trends & Next Steps
Robert Suarez, VOCAL-NY Users Union & Washington Heights CORNER Project, New York, NY
Candace Winstead, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Fred Wright, VOCAL-NY Users Union, Brooklyn, NY
BREAKOUT SESSION 2: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Exploring Buprenorphine
HCV TOWN HALL Room: Salon D
Room: Salon A
Moderators: Daniel Raymond and Hadiyah Charles, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Moderator: Sharon Stancliff, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Crack/Cocaine
Buprenorphine Therapy has Something for Almost Everybody: Opiate Dependent People & their Families, Service Providers & Yes, Even Law Enforcement. So Why isn’t it More Popular?
Room: Portland
Neil Flynn, SANE, Sacramento, CA
Michael Duncan, VOCAL-NY Users Union, Brooklyn, NY
rom Philosophy to Logistics: Translating Harm Reduction F Principles into Practical Operations in a Buprenorphine Therapy Program
Cocaine Use Prevalence
Rachel Anderson, SANE, Sacramento, CA
Paulo Luiz Guanabara, Psicotropicus—Brazilian Drug Policy Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Moderator: Hilary McQuie, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland,CA Cocaine Overdose Harm Reduction
Michael Duncan, VOCAL-NY Users Union, Brooklyn, NY Tá Ligado:Crackland in Rio de Janeiro
HIV: Bias, Disparities & Criminalization Room: Salon B
WORKSHOP: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL DRUG POLICY
Moderator: Nabarun Dasgupta, Project Lazarus & University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Room: Salon G
Facing Institutional Bias in the AIDS Epidemic
Allan Clear, Heather Haase, and Anistla Rugama, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Monte Levine, Ostrich Bay Exchange, Bremerton, WA
International Drug Policy
Disparities of HIV Infection Among Racial/Ethnic Minority People Who Inject Drugs: Results of an International Meta-analysis Don Des Jarlais, Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY T H U R S D AY, N O V E M B E R 15 • PA G E 8
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Involvement in Criminal Justice Systems
WORKSHOP: DEPRESSION & BLACK GAY MEN
Room: Eugene
Room: MeadowLark
Moderator: Scott Bernstein, Pivot Legal Society, Vancouver, BC
I Don’t Want to Hurt You or Myself: An Awareness of & Addressing Depression in Black Gay Men
From Prisons to Paradise
Antoine Craigwell, Depressed Black Gay Men (DBGM), New York, NY
Karen Loftin, Around the Town Magazine, Syracuse, NY ood Prison Health is Good Community Health: Coalition G Building for Reducing the Harm of Prisons Laura McTighe, Men & Women in Prison Ministries, New York, NY Harm Reduction & Drug Treatment Courts Tara Lyons, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV / AIDS, Vancouver, BC Providing Legal Services to Drug-Involved Persons Hong Tran, The Defender Association, Seattle, WA
NETWORKING MEETINGS, AFFINITY SESSIONS & OTHER ACTIVITIES: 5:45 pm – 7:00 pm Using The Body as a Form of Relapse Prevention Room: Eugene Organizer/Facilitator: Jacki Gethner, Regenerative Therapies, Portland, OR Come and learn about your body’s role in your recovery process.
Smarter Sex & Drugs
Intersection of Disability with Poverty, Stigma & Drug Use
Room: Salon H
Room: Portland
Moderator: Sadat Iqbal, Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center, New York, NY
Organizer/Facilitator: Paul Cherashore, Harm Reduction Garden Project & INPUD, Philadelphia, PA
Smarter Sex: Anal Pleasure & Health
This is an informal discussion about the intersection between disability—particularly late or undiagnosed learning and behavioral issues—with poverty, stigma and drug use.
Bryan Kutner, Independent, New York, NY Sexual Transmission of HIV/HCV among IDUs Oralia Loza, University of Texas—El Paso, El Paso, TX Addressing the Interplay of Sex & Drugs Shannon Mason, New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, Albany, NY Harm Reduction Psychotherapy
Mental Health & Substance Use Providers Town Hall Meeting Room: Salon A Organizer/Facilitator: Andrew Tatarsky, Independent, New York, NY 12-Step Meeting
Room: Medford Moderator: Donald McVinney, Harlem United Community AIDS Center, New York, NY Stigma is Injurious in All Circumstances: Redefining Harm Reduction Psychotherapy for the Managed Scare Era Lorraine Pirro, FROST’D, New York, NY Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy with Demonstration of Self-Management Skills Building Techniques for UrgeSurfing & Unwrapping the Urge
Room: Salon B Maintenance Group Room: Salon G Mixed gender group where participants receive goal setting skills, education and support while also focusing on their needs whether it’s to work toward abstinence or find a way to “manage” their drug use.
Andrew Tatarsky, The Center for Optimal Living, New York, NY
Moderation Management Meeting
Bridging the Gap from Abstinence-based Addiction Treatment to Harm Reduction: My Personal Journey and It's Impact on Being a Therapist
Room: Salon H
Barry Lessin, Independent, Dresher, PA
Harm Reduction Trivia Night Room: Bar Area, Second Floor
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Hepatitis C Collaboration in New York State
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Room: Salon B Responding to The Recent Increase in HCV Infections among Young Persons Who Inject Drugs in Upstate New York: CDC’s Action Plan for the Prevention, Care & Treatment of Viral Hepatitis as a Model for Federal, State, & Local Collaboration
REGISTRATION: 8:30 am – 6:30 pm
Jon E. Zibbell, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA Bryce D. Smith, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA Rachel Hart-Malloy, New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, New York, NY John Barry, Southern Tier AIDS Program (STAP), New York, NY
Location: Foyer
MORNING YOGA: 8:00 am – 9:00 am Rose, Exhale Yoga Studios, Portland, OR Room: Mount Hood
OVERDOSE PLENARY: 9:30 am – 10:45 pm Room: Salon E Moderator: Alex H. Kral, RTI International, San Francisco, CA Naloxone is a Drug User's Health Right Alma Candelas, New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, New York, NY Overdose: On the Ground Willie Dudley, Casa Segura/HEPPAC, Oakland, CA The Role of Naloxone in Residential Drug Treatment Wanda Zanetti, Richard C. Ward Treatment Center, Middletown, NY
Working with Law Enforcement Room: Salon C Moderator: Narelle Ellendon, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY Aligning Law Enforcement & HIV Prevention in Baltimore City Marina Smelyanskaya, Independent, Baltimore, MD Law Enforcement as Harm Reduction Advocates Robert Childs, North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Durham, NC Training for Law Enforcement & First Responders Alfonso Romo, Hospital del Carmen, Tijuana, Mexico
Overdose: A Bipartisan Issue Whitney Englander, Harm Reduction Coalition, Washington, DC
The Workplace
BREAKOUT SESSION 3: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Moderator: Emily Winkelstein, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Overdose Strategy
Room: Salon D
Creating an Effective Work Environment: Harm Reduction & Staff Resiliency
Room: Salon A Moderator: William Matthews, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Chloe Gale, Evergreen Treatment Services, Seattle, WA
Capacity Building Overdose Prevention Training for Drug & Alcohol Treatment Providers: Meeting Providers Where They’re At
Melissa Janiszewski, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Mindy Domb, SPHERE, Amherst, MA
Marliss Taylor, Streetworks, Tofield, AB
Utilizing Volunteers to Effectively Increase Visibility Keeping the Peace: Successfully Managing a Complex Staff Structure for a Harm Reduction Program
Naloxone: Beyond Syringe Exchange Alice Bell, Prevention Point Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Exploring Methadone
Opioid Overdose Prevention: Who Gets There First?
Room: Portland
Shannon Mason, New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, Albany, NY
Moderator: Kris Nyrop, The Defender Association, Seattle, WA
How to Engage Prescribers in Overdose Education & Naloxone Distribution
Patrick Shaw, Toronto Public Health, Toronto, Ontario
Maya Doe Simkins, Independent, Boston, MA Alexander Walley, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, MA
Providing Methadone to Poly Drug Users Words are Things in the MAT Community Roxanne Baker, NAMA-Recovery, Santa Cruz, CA
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Beyond Methadone: Improving Health & Empowering Patients in Opioid Treatment Programs
Underage Drinking, Respect for the Law, & Fitting In: Were the Prophets of Prohibition Right?
Hiawatha Collins, VOCAL-NY Users Union, Brooklyn, NY Erik Haberlen, VOCAL-NY Users Union, Brooklyn, NY
Perilou Goddard, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
Nightlife & Drug Use Trends
Making Medicine Work
Room: Salon G
Room: Medford
Moderator: Marissa Stiebel, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Moderator: Katie Burk, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CA
Nightlife by Number: Electronic Dance Music & Drug Use in 2012
Alex H. Kral, RTI International, San Francisco, CA
Stefanie Jones, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY
Barry Zevin, Tom Waddell Health Center, San Francisco, CA
Using Phenergan to Get High From Methadone Psych Meds for Harm Reduction Providers
New Substances on the Scene Nathan Messer, DanceSafe, Seattle, WA
Global Harm Reduction Programs
2012 Festival Attendees Survey Results
Room: MeadowLark
Carissa Cornwell, DanceSafe, Madison, WI Summer Festival Survey Results
Moderator: Sharon Stancliff, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Carissa Cornwell, DanceSafe, Madison, WI
Epidemics of HIV & HCV among MMT Entrants in China
DanceSafe as a Harm Reduction Organization
Eric Pui Fung Chow, The Kirby University—University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, Australia
Missi Wooldridge, DanceSafe, Denver, CO
Drug User Organizing in Eastern Europe Trafficking Wars
Dasha Ocheret, Eurasian Harm Reduction Network, Lithuania
Room: Eugene
Evaluating the Impact of NSP in Hunan, China
Moderator: Susan Sherman, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Eric Pui Fung Chow, The Kirby University—University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, Australia
Confronting the “War on Trafficking”: Empowerment-Based Alternatives to Anti-Prostitution Policing & Prosecution
High Coverage Needle/Syringe Programs for People who Inject Drugs in Low & Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review
Shira Hassan, Young Women's Empowerment Project, Chicago, IL
Don Des Jarlais, Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
Emi Koyama, Independent, Portland, OR A Rights-Based Approach to Human Trafficking Utilizing Harm Reduction Principals
LUNCH: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Kelli Dorsey, Different Avenues, Washington, DC
On your own
Serpent Libertine, Independent, Chicago, IL
E a st vs West Soccer Game Alcohol & Harm Reduction
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Room: Salon H
Co-ed, inter-generational, pros or amateurs—everyone is welcome! Come and play!!
Moderator: Hilary McQuie, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CA
Buckman Field—400 NE 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97232
Confidence to Reduce Alcohol Use & Related Harm Alan Davis, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Harm Reduction: Theory & Practice Kenneth Anderson, The HAMS Harm Reduction Network, New York, NY
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Room: Salon E 2:15 pm – 7:15 pm What time is it for Harm Reduction? Continuation of the agenda that was started on Thursday. Check-out the Commons wall in Salon E for conversations you might want to join that are being hosted by conference participants. Or take a look at the emerging Harvest wall for insights and themes that are emerging. -----------------------------------------------------------------
BREAKOUT SESSION 4: 12:15 pm – 3:45 pm
The Hepatitis C Case Management Program: Recommendations for Accessing Hepatitis Medical Care Poonum Dhokia, Hepatitis Education Project, Seattle, WA Access to Hepatitis C Treatment Dasha Ocheret, Eurasian Harm Reduction Network, Lithuania Too Late to Wait: Preventing HCV among Young Adults Pamela DeCarlo, UFO Presents!, San Francisco, CA Syringe Access Room: Salon D
DRUG USER ORGANIZING Room: Salon A Moderator: Scott Bernstein, Pivot Legal Society, Vancouver, BC Organizing to Build Power & Political Engagement among Drug Users Elizabeth Owens, VOCAL-NY Users Union, Brooklyn, NY Bobby Tolbert, VOCAL-NY Users Union, Brooklyn, NY Radical Accompaniment Heather Hobbs, AIDS Vancouver Island & Allies of Drug War Survivors, Victoria, BC
Moderator: Narelle Ellendon, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY What’s the Difference? Urban/Rural Exchanges Eric Seitz, Never-Share Syringe Exchange / Kittitas County Public Health, Ellensburg, WA Rural & Urban Syringe Exchange: Challenges of Serving Geographically Diverse Populations Joshua Swatek, New Mexico AIDS Services, Albuquerque, NM Syringe Exchange Advocacy: National to Local Charles Stephens, AIDS United, Atlanta, GA
Shane Calder, AIDS Vancouver Island & Allies of Drug War Survivors, Victoria, BC
Policing Sex WORK
Katie Lacroix, Society of Living Illicit Drug Users, Victoria, BC
Room: Portland
Jill Cater, Society of Living Illicit Drug Users, Victoria, BC
Policing Sex Work: The Harms of Criminalization Melissa Broudo, SWP, SWOP-NYC, New York, NY
Beginner’s Workshop: Harm Reduction Advocacy
Cyndee Clay, HIPS, Washington, DC
Room: Salon B
Megan McLemore, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY
Speaking Up & Out for Harm Reduction: Advocacy Training (Beginners)
Overdose Dynamics
Grant Smith, Drug Policy Alliance, Washington, DC
Room: Salon G
Aren’t You Just Enabling? Responding to Objections to Harm Reduction
Moderator: Jen Kirschner, Baltimore Student Harm Reduction Coalition, Baltimore, MD
Alessandra Ross, California Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS, Sacramento, CA
The Need for Overdose Prevention Efforts Nancy Kelly, Kelly & Yamamoto Productions, Greenbrae, CA The Pill-Studded Path: Heroin Initiation East & West
Reducing Barriers to Hepatitis C Care Room: Salon C
Sarah Mars, University of California—San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Moderator: Hadiyah Charles, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Intertwined Epidemics: Rising Hospitalizations for Prescription Opiate Overdose
Hepatitis C: Strategies for Building Power to End an Epidemic
George Unick, University of Maryland—School of Social Work, Baltimore, MD
Hiawatha Collins and Erik Haberlen, VOCAL-NY Users Union, Brooklyn, NY
Police & Overdose Lindsay Jenkins, Multnomah County Health Department, Portland, OR Haven Wheelock, Outside In, Portland, OR
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Harm Reduction with Children & Families Room: Eugene Moderator: Emily Winkelstein, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY What Does Harm Reduction Mean to Parents, Family & Friends? Denise Cullen, Broken No More, Palm Desert, CA Marilee Odendahl, Broken No More, Freeport, IL Patty Leavitt, GRASP, Dana Point, CA
BREAKOUT SESSION 5: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Comprehensive Harm Reduction Programs Room: Salon A Moderator: Moya Brown, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY Implementing a Wound Clinic on a Needle Exchange Van: The Baltimore Experience Ju Park, Candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
Intersections with Criminal Justice
The Teeth Project
Room: Salon H
Sebastian Saville, The Teeth Project, UK Brian Thompson, Independent, New York, NY
Moderator: Naomi Braine, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY Working with People on Probation and Parole from a Harm Reduction Perspective Cynthia Hoffman, Independent, San Francisco, CA Jennifer Plummer, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA CA SB 1506: Sentencing Reform as Harm Reduction Laura Thomas, Drug Policy Alliance, San Francisco, CA Police Perspectives on Drug Law Enforcement Alli Kraus, Glide Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Soft Hand Offs: Integrating Syringe Exchange & Primary Care Brandon Schwanz, Outside In, Portland, OR Haven Wheelock, Outside In, Portland, OR Organizing Around Drug Use Room: Salon B Moderator: Holly Bradford, San Francisco Drug Users' Union, San Francisco, CA Drug User-Led Peer Support Groups Claudia Figallo, UCSF-Alliance Health Project, San Francisco, CA
Changing the Relationship
UPRISE Peer Training Program
Room: Medford
Johanna Breyer, New York Harm Reduction Educators, Bronx, NY
Moderator:Whitney Englander, Harm Reduction Coalition, Washington, DC
Organizing on Drugs
Sheila Vakharia, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Shilo Murphy, PHRA/Urban Survivors Union, Seattle, WA Isaac Jackson, San Francisco Drug Users' Union, San Francisco, CA
Supporting Abstinence as One Vital Point on the Harm Reduction Spectrum
Community Grassroots Organizing for Health Services in Victoria, BC
Jose Sanchez and Ajani Benjamin, Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center, New York, NY
Heather Hobbs, Allies of Drug War Survivors, Victoria, BC Kim Toombs, Society of Living Illicit Drug Users, Victoria, BC
Definition of Recovery Grounded in Harm Reduction
Transformational Chairwork & Harm Reduction Scott Kellogg, Schema Therapy Institute, New York, NY
Roundtable: Coercive Treatment Room: Salon C
ROUNDTABLE: PEER-LED HARM REDUCTION WITHIN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR Room: MeadowLark
The Truth about Coercion Allen Hopper, ACLU of Northern California, San Francisco, CA
Being the Change: Peer-Led Harm Reduction within Communities of Color Joean Villarin, Safe Horizon Streetwork, New York, NY
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Modeling Syringe Access
Cannabis
Room: Salon D
Room: Eugene
Moderator: Katie Burk, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CA
Data Visualization-Marijuana Enforcement
Making a Dollar Outta Fifteen Cents, a Dime, & a Nickel
Mark Cooke, ACLU of Washington, Seattle, WA
Malika Lamont, Thurston County Public Health & Social Services Department, Olympia, WA
Cannabis, Meditation & Meth
Satellite Syringe Exchange: Building Collaboration
Amanda Reiman, University of California—Berkeley, Oakland, CA
Samuel Formo, St. James Infirmary, San Francisco, CA
Cannabis: The “Exit” Drug
The Space at Tompkins: New York City First Peer Delivered Syringe Exchange Harm Reduction Organization Reaching Out to the Transient Homeless Community
Philippe Lucas, Centre for Addictions Research of BC, Victoria, BC
Andréa Stella, The Space at Tompkins, New York, NY
WORKSHOP: Down & Dirty Data
EGYHOP-Breaking the Rules Since 1998
Room: Salon H
Meg Martin, Emma Goldman Youth Homeless Outreach Project (EGYHOP), Olympia, WA
Donald Grove, Independent, New York, NY WORKSHOP: MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
ART AND HARM REDUCTION
Room: Medford
Room: Portland Community Arts & Harm Reduction: Promoting Health, Building Community, Change Zoë Dodd, South Riverdale Community Health Centre, Toronto, ON Kathleen Kenny, COUNTERfit Harm Reduction Program at South Riverdale Community Health Center, Toronto, ON Amy Muli, The East Toronto Hepatitis C Program at Sherbourne Health Centre, Toronto, ON
Motivational Interviewing 3: Adding Compassion, Losing Our Principles, & Looking at the Process that Makes MI Unique Dee-Dee Stout, Dee-Dee Stout Consulting, Emeryville, CA WORKSHOP: SEX WORK 101 Room: MeadowLark Working with Various Sex Work Communities Vanessa Warri, St. James Infirmary, San Francisco, CA
Expanding Overdose Response
Paula Stroman, HIPS, Washington, DC
Room: Salon G Moderator: Alice Bell, Prevention Point Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Increasing Access to Naloxone in British Columbia Erin Gibson, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC The Need for Overdose Prevention Efforts Adiba Ali, Clark County Center for Community Health, Vancouver, WA Sandra Kendrick, Clark County Public Health, Vancouver, WA Legal & Regulatory Environment Affecting Opioid Overdose interventions: Current Situation & Thoughts for the Future Corey Davis, Network for Public Health Law, Carrboro, NC
Sid Justice, Human Rights for All, Portland, OR Alan Gutierrez, St. James Infirmary, San Francisco, CA
BREAKOUT SESSION 6: 5:45 pm – 7:15 pm Harm Reduction in Mainstream Medical Systems Room: Salon A Moderator: Matt Curtis, Independent, New York, NY Mischaracterizations, Misrepresentations, & Missing in Action: Developing Strategies to Challenge Specific Cases Where Harm Reduction is Marginalized by The Mainstream Richard Elovich, Columbia University, Brooklyn, NY Sharon Stancliff, Harm Reduction Coalition New York, NY Daliah Heller, Center for Health Media & Policy, Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, City University of New York, New York, NY
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Addressing Violence
IDU for Non-IDUs
Room: Salon B
Pamela Lynch, WhoSoEver, Traverse City, MI
Moderator: Lazara Paz, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY Trust: Second Acts in Younger Lives
Approaches to Drug Treatment
Nancy Kelly, Kelly & Yamamoto Productions, Greenbrae, CA
Room: Salon G
Someone You Know Is A Sex Worker
Moderator: Maria "Sam" Josepher, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Stephany Ashley, St. James Infirmary, San Francisco, CA Embracing Negative Survivorship & Unhealthy Coping: A Harm Reduction Approach in the Movement Against Domestic & Sexual Violence Emi Koyama, Independent, Portland, OR
Acceptance of Non-Abstinence by Clinicians Alan Davis, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH How Motivational is the Treatment Program? Jim Bott, St. Luke’s / Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY Changing What You Know: The Five Belief Domains
ETHICS & HARM REDUCTION
Douglas Rumpza, VA-MHC, Fargo, ND
Room: Salon C Moderator: Narelle Ellendon, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY “Drug Dealer” Outreach
SEX WORKER ACTIVISM Room: Eugene
Drugs Are Disgusting: Moral Decision Making & Attitudes
In Our Own Words: Sex Worker Activists Speak Out about the Significant Harms of Criminalization on the Lives of Sex Workers & Explain Why Only Rights Can Amend these Wrongs
toward Drug Use & Harm Reduction
Naomi Akers, St. James Infirmary, San Francisco, CA
Perilou Goddard, Northern Kentucky University,
Kelli Dorsey, Different Avenues, Washington, DC
Highland Heights, KY
Cyd Nova, St. James Infirmary, San Francisco, CA
Jessi Ross, St James Infirmary, Oakland, CA
Ethical Situations and Harm Reduction Patt Denning, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA
PHARMACY WORK
Tara Kline, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA
Room: Salon H Moderator: Eliza Wheeler, Harm Reduction Coalition,New York, NY
Activism 2012 Room: Salon D Moderator: Tim Santamour, Independent, New York, NY Occupy Wall Street, Drug Use & What Really Happened Erik Haberlen, VOCAL-NY Users Union, Brooklyn, NY Elizabeth Owens, VOCAL-NY Users Union, Brooklyn, NY ACT UP! RISE UP!
Pharmacy Access & Over-the-Counter Pharmacy Syringe Purchase among Injection Drug Users: Implications for HIV Prevention in California Thomas Stopka, University of California—Davis, Antelope, CA Pharmacy Access in Massachusetts & the impact on Needle Exchange Programs Brittany Bradley, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Cambridge, MA
Cyd Nova, St. James Infirmary, San Francisco, CA OVERDOSE
Safer Injection
Room: Medford
Room: Portland Moderator: Emily Winkelstein, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Moderator: Heather Lusk, CHOW Project, Honolulu, HI
The Safer Injection Slideshow
“I’m Not Just a Junkie Piece of Shit”: A Qualitative Study of the Experience of Becoming an Overdose Responder
Terry Morris, The San Francisco AIDS Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Karla Wagner, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Vein Care Tips & Tricks
To Call 911 or Not to Call 911? Overdose Help Seeking
Lara Coffin, The People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, Oakland, CA
Maya Doe-Simkins, Independent, Chicago, IL
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Opioid Analgesic Use among Syringe Exchange Participants in New York City
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Anne Siegler, New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Long Island City, NY Heroin Assisted Treatment Room: MeadowLark
REGISTRATION: 8:30 am – 3:00 pm
North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI) Research Survivors & Advocates
Location: Foyer
Dave Murray, NAOMI Patients Association (NPA), Vancouver, BC
MORNING YOGA: 8:00 am – 9:00 a.m
Dianne Tobin, VANDU & member of NPA, Vancouver, BC
Ginny, Exhale Yoga Studios, Portland, OR
Susan Boyd, University of Victoria, Drug Policy Activist & Researcher, Vancouver, BC
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NETWORKING MEETINGS, AFFINITY SESSIONS & OTHER ACTIVITIES: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
S P A C E
OPEN SPACE & HARVESTING:
9:30 am – 10:45 pm
12-Step Meeting
Room: Salon E
Room: Salon B
Breakfast Harvest & What’s Next? Room: Salon E
11:00 am – 7:15 pm
GRASP (Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing)
Open Space & Harvesting continues
Room: Salon C
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Organizer/Facilitator: Denise Cullen, Broken No More, Palm Desert, CA
BREAKOUT SESSION 7: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
GRASP meetings provide help, compassion and most of all, understanding, for families or individuals who have had a loved one die as a result of substance abuse or addiction.
WORKSHOP: Race Matters Room: Salon A Race Matters: History of African-Americans in Harm Reduction Amu Ptah-Rojas, Independent, New York, NY
Maintenance Group Room: Salon G
Correctional Setting Harm Reduction
Mixed gender group where participants receive goal setting skills, education and support while also focusing on their needs whether it’s to work toward abstinence or find a way to “manage” their drug use.
Room: Salon B
Moderation Management
Cynthia Hoffman, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA
Room: Salon H
Moderator: Alex H. Kral, RTI International, San Francisco, CA Harm Reduction in Forensic Settings Jen Plummer, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA
Bridging Correctional & Community Care
AFTER HOURS ACTIVITY: 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Christina Powers, RTI International, Oakland, CA
Harm Reduction Fashion Show
Who’s Doing What in Prisons
Room: Salon E
Barry Zack, The Bridging Group, Oakland, CA Crisis on the inside: Hepatitis in Prison & Jail Richard Feffer, Independent, Seattle, WA
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Canadian Social Justice Organizing Room: Salon C
A Critical Discussion of a Community Needs & Resource Assessment of Sex Work in the Portland Metro Area
Moderator: Ginetta Salvalaggio, University of Alberta— Department of Family Medicine, Edmonton, AB
Kiera Hansen, Independent, Portland, OR
Do it Yourself Policy Development: Building Capacity for Civil Society Engagement in Modernizing Canada’s Legislative, Regulatory & Policy Frameworks that Impact Responses to Illegal Drugs in Canada
Nancy Gunnarson, Philadelphia FIGHT, Philadelphia, PA
Donald McPherson, Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, Vancouver, BC Prison Health Now: Mobilizing for Needle & Syringe Programs in Canada’s Prison Walter Cavalieri, Canadian Harm Reduction Network, Toronto, ON
XXX Threat (HIV, IV Use, Sex Work)
WORKSHOP: HEALING JUSTICE & SEX WORK Room: Salon G Beyond Cotton Underwear: Incorporating Healing Justice into Sex Work Programming Shira Hassan, Young Women's Empowerment Project, Chicago, IL Supportive Housing
Zoë Dodd, South Riverdale Community Medical Centre, Toronto, ON
Room: Eugene
The Legal Fight for Harm Reduction
Positive Outcomes for Harm Reduction Strategies in Supporive Housing
Scott Bernstein, Pivot Legal Society, Vancouver, BC Drug Use, HIV, and Incarceration in Canada Joan Ruzsa, Rittenhouse: A New Vision, Toronto, ON Substance Use Treatment Room: Salon D Moderator: Eric Dorris, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY The Mobile Outreach Addictions Team
Moderator: Bryan Kutner, Independant, New York, NY
Adrianna Wynacht, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA Harm Reduction & Supportive Housing: Health Improvement among HIV Positive Clients Residing in Supportive Housing in New York City Donald McVinney, Harlem United Community AIDS Center, New York, NY Tenderloin Blues & Silver Linings: Voluntary Substance Use Treatment with Tenants in Supportive Housing
Chantelle Bailey, Boyle Street Community Services, Edmonton, AB
Dara Papo, Community Housing Partnership, San Francisco, CA
Envisioning Addiction Treatment: A Six Point Plan
Elizabeth Devine, Veterans Administration, Tacoma, WA
Harm Reduction in VA Supportive Housing
Scott Kellogg, Schema Therapy Institute, New York, NY Andrew Tatarsky, The Center for Optimal Living, New York, NY
Media: Social & Anti-Social
Drugs for Treating Addiction
Room: Salon H
Barry Zevin, Tom Waddell Health Center, San Francisco, CA
Moderator: Nabarun Dasgupta, Project Lazarus & University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Choosing A Harm Reduction Goal Kenneth Anderson, The HAMS Harm Reduction Network, New York, NY
Media Activism for Harm Reduction Workshop Hadley Gustafson and Robert Childs, North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Durham, NC
Sex Worker Health
Substance: Media Representations of Harm Reduction
Room: Portland
Carson Benowitz-Fredericks, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Tiburon, CA
Moderator: Susan Sherman, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Comprehensive Health of Sex Workers in Rural Eastern Washington: Opinions of Health Care Workers in Regards to Female Meth Users & Sex Work & Sex Workers Access to Comprehensive Health Care & Harm Reduction Kimberly Hitchcock, Independent, Ellensburg, WA
Harm Reduction Media Tessie Castillo, North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Durham, NC Working with the Media in Harm Reduction Kim Toevs, Multnomah County Health Department, Portland, OR Kathy Oliver, Outside In, Portland, OR
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AGENDA AT A GL A NCE • TH U R SDAY Thursday, November 15, 2012
BREAKOUT SESSION 2: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Exploring Buprenorphine Salon A
REGISTRATION: 8:30 am – 6:30 pm Location: Foyer
HIV: Bias, Disparities & Criminalization Salon B Good Samaritan Salon C
WELCOME & OPENING: 10:00 am – 11:15 am Salon E
HCV Town Hall Salon D Crack/Cocaine Portland
PLENARY SESSION I: 11:30 am – 12:45 pm Salon E
Workshop: Understanding Global Drug Policy Salon G
Getting Vocal: Getting Bills into Laws
Involvement in Criminal Justice Systems Eugene
Nothing for Us, Without Us
Smarter Sex & Drugs Salon H
Heroin Assisted Treatment: Naomi Research Survivors & Advocates
Harm Reduction Psychotherapy Medford Workshop: Depression & Black Gay Men MeadowLark
Visiting Hours: Drug Users Organizing Inside & Outside American Health Care
NETWORKING MEETINGS, AFFINITY SESSIONS & OTHER ACTIVITIES: 5:45 pm – 7:00 pm
LUNCH: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Using The Body as a Form of Relapse Prevention Eugene
On your own ----------------------o p e n s pac e
Intersection of Disability with Poverty, Stigma & Drug Use Portland
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
Mental Health & Substance Use Providers Town Hall Meeting Salon A
2:15 pm – 7:15 pm Salon E
12-Step Meeting Salon B
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Maintenance Group Salon G Moderation Management Meeting Salon H
BREAKOUT SESSION 1: 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm
Harm Reduction Trivia Night Bar Area, Second Floor
Criminal Justice Reform Salon A Workshop: Health Care Reform & Harm Reduction Salon B Crack Salon C Youth Work Salon D Hepatitis C Portland Program Collaboration & Integration Salon G Creative Harm Reduction Eugene Workshop: Overdose Prevention 101 Salon H Beginners Workshop: Harm Reduction & Sex Workers Medford State of Syringe Exchange MeadowLark
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AGENDA AT A GL A NCE • FRIDAY Friday, November 16, 2012
Intersections with Criminal Justice Salon H Changing the Relationship Medford
REGISTRATION: 8:30 am – 6:30 pm Location: Foyer MORNING YOGA: 8:00 am – 9:00 am Mount Hood
Roundtable: Peer-Led Harm Reduction within Communities of Color MeadowLark BREAKOUT SESSION 5: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
OVERDOSE PLENARY: 9:30 am – 10:45 pm Salon E
Comprehensive Harm Reduction Programs Salon A
BREAKOUT SESSION 3: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Roundtable: Coercive Treatment Salon C
Overdose Strategy Salon A
Modeling Syringe Access Salon D
Hepatitis C Collaboration in New York State Salon B
Art & Harm Reduction Portland
Working with Law Enforcement Salon C
Expanding Overdose Response Salon G
The Workplace Salon D
Cannabis Eugene
Exploring Methadone Portland
Workshop: Down & Dirty Data Salon H
Nightlife & Drug Use Trends Salon G
Workshop: Motivational Interviewing Medford
Trafficking Wars Eugene
Workshop: Sex Work 101 MeadowLark
Alcohol & Harm Reduction Salon H Making Medicine Work Medford Global Harm Reduction Programs MeadowLark East vs. West Soccer Game: 12:45 am – 2:00 pm Buckman Field - 400 NE 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97232 LUNCH: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm On your own
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Organizing Around Drug Use Salon B
BREAKOUT SESSION 6: 5:45 pm -7:15 pm Harm Reduction in Mainstream Medical Systems Salon A Addressing Violence Salon B Ethics & Harm Reduction Salon C Activism 2012 Salon D Safer Injection Portland Approaches to Drug Treatment Salon G Sex Worker Activism Eugene Pharmacy Work Salon H Overdose Medford Heroin Assisted Treatment MeadowLark NETWORKING MEETINGS, AFFINITY SESSIONS & OTHER ACTIVITIES: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm 12-Step Meeting Salon B GRASP (Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing) Salon C Maintenance Group Salon G Moderation Management Meeting Salon H AFTER HOURS ACTIVITY, 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Harm Reduction Coalition Fashion Show Salon E
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AGENDA AT A GL A NCE • SATU RDAY Saturday, November 17, 2012
Gay, MSM & Harm Reduction Portland Harm Reduction for Women Salon G
REGISTRATION: 8:30 am – 3:00 pm Location: Foyer
Drug Law Reform Eugene
MORNING YOGA: 8:00 am – 9:00 a.m Mount Hood
Public Health Medical Model & Harm Reduction MeadowLark
OPEN SPACE & HARVESTING: 9:30 am – 10:45 pm Salon E
Syringe Access: Entry to Care Salon H Workshop: Harm Reduction Groups Medford
BREAKOUT SESSION 9: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Claiming Power Salon A
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Mother & Child Salon B
o p e n s pac e
Organizing Harm Reduction Events Salon C
11:00 pm – 7:15 pm
Reducción de Daños (en español) Salon D
Harvesting continues
Self Care Portland
Salon E
Program Integration: More than Syringe Access Salon G
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Global Drug Policy Eugene Seeking Satisfaction Salon H
BREAKOUT SESSION 7: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Workshop: Race Matters Salon A
Roundtable: Personal Recovery Medford Harm Reduction Program Planning MeadowLark
Correctional Setting Harm Reduction Salon B Canadian Social Justice Organizing Salon C Substance Use Treatment Salon D Sex Worker Health Portland Workshop: Healing Justice & Sex Work Salon G Supportive Housing Eugene Media: Social & Anti-Social Salon H Organizing Response Medford Workshop: Harm Reduction Supervision MeadowLark
BREAKOUT SESSION 10: 5:45 pm – 7:15 pm Social Media Salon A Overdose Salon B Drug Using Community Mapping Salon C Working with Transgender Communities Salon D Harm Reduction Public Policy Portland Effective Outreach Salon G Workshop: Substance Use Management Eugene
SLIDE SHOW: Social Justice Through Community Art Making Columbia
Roundtable: Injecting in the Bathroom Salon H
LUNCH: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Whoa Nasty, Whoa Good! MeadowLark
On your own
HIV & Primary Care Medford
BREAKOUT SESSION 8: 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm
NETWORKING MEETINGS, AFFINITY SESSIONS & OTHER ACTIVITIES, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Supervised Injection Facilities Salon A
12-Step Meeting Salon B
Organizing Around Drugs Salon B
GRASP (Grief Recovery after a Substance Passing) Salon C
Housing Salon C
Moderation Management Meeting Salon H
Culturally Specific Salon D
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AGENDA AT A GL A NCE • SU NDAY SUNday, November 18, 2012
P o s t e r P r e s e n tat i o n s
Mindfulness Meditation: 8:00 am – 9:00 am Mount Hood
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Posters will be displayed each day all day. Speakers will be available to answer questions on day of presentation between 1:00pm and 1:30pm Thursday, November 15, 2012 Social Justice through Community Art Making San Diego’s Own Home Grown Harm Reduction Differences between the Way Researchers and People who Inject Drugs Think About Research Participation
Roundtable: Integrating Harm Reduction into Traditional Models Salon A
It Takes a Village (and Systems Alignment)
Workshop: Trauma Salon B
Friday, November 16, 2012
Workshop: Hepatitis C Salon C
National Female Condom Survey on Awareness, Attitudes, Access
Dope & Revolution Salon D Drug Policy Portland Harm Reduction Counseling Approaches Eugene Mental Health Salon H
Alcohol and Methamphetamine Use During Sex Among Japanese MSM Recruited through the Internet
PrEP Medford
Injection Drug Users’ Perceived Barriers to Using Self-Initiated Harm Reduction Strategies
Online Learning Workshop: Building Communities MeadowLark
Measuring Harm Reduction Practices through Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
BREAKOUT SESSION 12: 11:15 am – 12:45 pm
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Sex Trade & Law Enforcement Salon A
NEP Counseling as Entry Point for Harm Reduction
Bad Date Lists Salon C
Putting Patient-Centered Evidence into Practice: Development and Implementation of Knowledge Translation Resources for Disadvantaged Urban Patients who Suffer from Addiction
Workshop: Advanced Clinical Skills Salon D Workshop: Stages of Change Portland Workshop: Assessing Agency Readiness Salon G Harm Reduction & Recovery Salon H CLOSING: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
The Effectiveness of Psychological Harm Reduction Interventions for Adult Substance Using Design and Outcomes of an Integrated Harm Reduction Approach
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Organizing Response Room: Medford Moderator: Katie Burk, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CA From the Ground Up Diane Nielsen, Safeworks, Calgary, AB Scaling Up a Response: Philly, HCV & IDU Alex Shirreffs, Division of Disease Control—PDPH, Philadelphia, PA Community-Based Investigation of Prescription Opioid Overdose Outbreaks: Findings & Responses from a Three Site Rapid Assessment & Response Study Roza Tammer, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT
Integrating Supervised Injection Services into a Palliative & Supportive Care Facility for People Living with HIV/AIDS in a Canadian Setting: A Qualitative Analysis Ryan McNeil, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, BC Organizing Around Drugs Room: Salon B Moderator: Emily Winkelstein, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY The Meaningful Involvement of People with the Lived Experience of HCV in an Interdisciplinary Model of Treatment, Care & Support
WORKSHOP: Harm Reduction Supervision
Zoë Dodd, South Riverdale Community Health Centre, Toronto, ON
Room: MeadowLark
Everyone is Connected
Harm Reduction Supervision
Fay Barrett, William F. Ryan Community Health Center, New York, NY
Jeannie Little, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA Patt Denning, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA SLIDE SHOW: Social Justice Through Community Art Making
Finding a Comfortable Grey Area: Working with Active Drug Users Erik Haberlen , VOCAL-NY Users Union, Brooklyn, NY Building & Sustaining a Multidisciplinary Student Harm Reduction Coalition
Room: Columbia
Jennifer Kirschner, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
Valery M. Shuman, Heartland Health Outreach, Harm Reduction Institute, Chicago IL
HOUSING Room: Salon C
LUNCH: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Project-based Housing First and Harm Reduction for Chronically Homeless People with Alcohol Problems
On your own
Seema Clifasefi, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
BREAKOUT SESSION 8: 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm Supervised Injection Facilities Room: Salon A Moderator: Hilary McQuie, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CA
Susan Collins, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Daniel Malone, Downtown Emergency Service Center, Seattle, WA Margaret King, Downtown Emergency Service Center, Seattle, WA
Supervised Injection Clinics & the Community
Culturally Specific
Danielle Vallee, Independent, Richmond, BC
Room: Salon D
Exploring the Impact of Peer-Run ‘Unsanctioned’ Supervised Drug Consumption Facility On Assisted Injection Practices in a Canadian Setting
Moderator: Adam Viera, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Ryan McNeil, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV / AIDS, Vancouver, BC
Daniel Robelo, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY
Harm Reduction & Supervised Injection: Policy Lessons from Vancouver
Harm Reduction & Hispanics/Migrant Workers
Emily-Anne Paul, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, BC
Healing a Broken System: Harm Reduction & Veterans Jessica Gelay, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY Tessie Castillo, North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Durham, NC
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El Groupo's Reflection of Harm Reduction
Drug Law Reform
Eveline Gonzalez, Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, San Francisco, CA
Room: Eugene
Harm Reduction & the Transcultural Perspective
Legalization of Marijuana
Kelly Gallaugher, Independent, Sunnyvale, CA
Michael Krawitz, Veterans for Medical Cannabis, Elliston, VA
Moderator: Mark Cooke, ACLU of Washington, Seattle, WA
Drug Decriminalization Models Across the Globe Gay, MSM & Harm Reduction
Christine Tse, Release, London, UK
Room: Portland
On Our Way to Decriminalization!
Moderator: Demetrius McCord, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Allen Hopper, ACLU of Northern California, San Francisco, CA
The Stonewall Project: A Harm Reduction Model for Working with Gay & Bi Men who use Alcohol & Other Drugs Michael Siever, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, San Francisco, CA Among Men: A New Harm Reduction Program for MSM Michael Wilkerson, University of Minnesota—School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN Working with Gay Men Who Use Substances Joe Ruggiero, Addiction Institute of New York, NY Ring the Alarm, We Have a Fire to Put Out!: Using Harm Reduction Approach to Enhance Protective Factors Among Black MSM Aunsha Hall, Latino Commission on AIDS, New York, NY Dorinda Coleman, Latino Commission on AIDS, New York, NY
Scaling Up Harm Reduction in A Time of Political Challenge: Examples From the Canadian Case Dr. Connie Carter, Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, Vancouver, BC Syringe Access: Entry to Care Room: Salon H A Harm Reduction Model for Addressing Community Interventions & Emergencies through Syringe Access Sites Pauli Gray, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, San Francisco, CA Evaluating & Improving Follow-Up of Reported Hepatitis C Cases in New Haven, CT: Assessing Community Resources & Developing a Pilot Follow-Up Program Roza Tammer, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT Workshop: Harm Reduction Groups Room: Medford
Harm Reduction for Women
Harm Reduction Groups
Room: Salon G Moderator: Skylar Panuska, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY Sexual Minority Women, Drug Use & Marginalization Naomi Braine, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY The Female Condom as a Viable Harm Reduction Tool: The Development of the National Female Condom Coalition (NFCC)
Jamie Lavender, Mariko Obrero, Maurice Byrd, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA Public Health Medical Model & Harm Reduction Room: MeadowLark Moderator: Moya Brown, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Jennifer D. Medina, NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, New York, NY
Defying Pathologies within the Medical Model
Hanna Hjord, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA
Public Health Follow Up as Harm Reduction: Using Harm Reduction While Working with HIV+ Patients in San Francisco Department of Public Health
H.E.R. Pregnancy Program Samantha Hardeman, Streetworks, Edmonton, AB Promoting Women’s Wellness in Syringe Exchange Program Drop-In Centers Nicole Krempasky, Washington Heights CORNER Project, New York, NY
Sarah Ross, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Erin Antunez, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA Substance Use Services in Health Care: Opportunities for Transformation in the United States Daliah Heller, Center for Health Media & Policy, HunterBellevue School of Nursing, City University of New York, New York, NY
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BREAKOUT SESSION 9: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Reducción de Daños (en español) Room: Salon D
Claiming Power
Deportacion y Drogas Inyectables En La Frontera
Room: Salon A Moderator: Eliza Wheeler, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CA Congressional Activity in Response to Prescription Drugs Grant Smith, Drug Policy Alliance, Washington, DC Using Civil Disobedience to Establish a Public Health Norm: An Overview of a Transitioning Model for Naloxone Distribution in CT Chris Heneghan, Windham Harm Reduction Coalition, Inc, Willimantic, CT
Andres Gaeta, Mexican Harm Reduction Network, Tijuana, Mexico Pushing for Reform in Latin America Drug Policies Pablo Cymerman, Intercambios Civil Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina Self Care Room: Portland
Attempts to Regulate the Porn Industry Gone Wrong
Moderator: Lara Coffin, The People's Harm Reduction Alliance, Oakland, CA
Naomi Akers, St. James Infirmary, San Francisco, CA
Harm Reduction Care for The Healer
Sid Justice, Human Rights for All, Portland, OR
Jennifer Tufenkian, Natural Choices Health Clinic LLC, Portland, OR
Implementing Peer Control: From Philosophy to Policy Tom Fitzpatrick, The People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, Seattle, WA Shilo Murphy, The People's Harm Reduction Alliance
Smart Brain Good Heart Tools for All Pamela Church, Independent, Portland, OR Yoga Helps with Self Care Khristine Jones, Yoga Punx, San Francisco, CA
Mother & Child
Beyond the Bubble Bath: Harm Reduction & Self Care
Room: Salon B
Karen Hixson, Progressive Counseling, Portland, OR
Moderator: Nilda Lino, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY Advocating for Harm Reduction & Social Justice in the World of Child Welfare Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, New York, NY
Program Integration: More than Syringe Access Room: Salon G Moderator: Katie Burk, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CA The Need for HIV Care Linkage through Syringe Exchange
Mothers’ Grief, Loss & Work for Change
Jennifer Han, Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore, MD
Kathleen Kenny, COUNTERfit Harm Reduction Program at South Riverdale Community Health Center, Toronto, ON
Strategies to Provide Infectious Disease Services: A Case Study of Syringe Exchange Programs (SEPs) in NYC
Organizing Harm Reduction Events
Jennifer Fuld, New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Long Island City, NY
Room: Salon C Moderator: Narelle Ellendon, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Addressing Gaps in Hepatitis C Clinical Management among Denver, Colorado’s Injection Drug Users through Understanding Dynamics of Utilization: A Formative Study
Peer Delivered Syringe Exchange Conference
Ruth Kanatser, Harm Reduction Action Center, Denver, CO
Jennifer Stella, New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Long Island City, NY Creating a Homegrown Harm Reduction Conference Heather Lusk, CHOW Project, Honolulu, HI Have an Overdose Vigil: A How-To Workshop Mary Wheeler, Northeast Behavioral Health: Healthy Streets Program, Lynn, MA
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Global Drug Policy
Harm Reduction Program Planning
Room: Eugene
Room: MeadowLark
Moderator: Hilary McQuie, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CA
Moderator: Michael Everett, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Pragmatisms & Compassion in Harm Reduction
Measuring Harm Reduction Practices Through Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
Maria Manuela Mage, Independent, San Francisco, CA Portuguese Drug Policy: Stay Human Helen Redmond, Gibb Mansion, Brooklyn, NY Implementing Portugal’s Decriminalization Laws in the US Mark Cooke, ACLU of Washington, Seattle, WA
Jennifer Fernandez, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA Tara Kline, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA Harm Reduction in a Community-Based Setting Shannon Ristau, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, Portland, OR Principles & Practices of Harm Reduction in an HIV/AIDS Services Organization
Seeking Satisfaction Room: Salon H Moderator: Roger Schaefer, Harm Reduction Coalition, Oakland, CA Autonomy as a Predicator of Natural Recovery Bryan Kutner, Independent, New York, NY
Donald McVinney, Harlem United Community AIDS Center, New York, NY
BREAKOUT SESSION 10: 5:45 pm – 7:15 pm Social Media
Harm Reduction Messaging Jag Davies, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY Effects of Exposure Response Prevention on Reducing Addictive Cravings Robert Deletis, Independent, Danbury, CT Shared Decision Making: A New Recovery Support Wayne Centrone, Center for Social Innovation, Boston, MA
Room: Salon A Moderator: Michaela Montaner, International Centre for Science in Drug Policy, Vancouver, BC PSA YAY! Make a Public Service Announcement->From Cell Phone to Internet Joanna Berton Martinez, Independent, Boston, MA Toward the Heart: Social Media Too Despina Tzemis, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC
Roundtable: Personal Recovery
Internet Based Harm Reduction for Meth-Using MSM
Room: Medford Looking After Your Personal Recovery Whilst Working in Harm Reduction Mark Kinzly, StreetWorks, Nashville, TN Sam MacMasters, University of Tennessee, Hendersonville, TN Mary Howe, Homeless Youth Alliance, San Francisco, CA Mark Jenkins, AIDS Project Hartford, Hartford, CT
Michael Wilkerson, University of Minnesota—School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN Use of Technology to Engage Active Substance Users Samuel MacMaster, University of Tennessee, Hendersonville, TN Overdose Room: Salon B Moderator:Shoshanna Scholar, LA Community Health Outreach Project, Los Angeles, CA Cultural Adaptation to Overdose Training Materials Maria Luisa Rolon, UCSD Global Public Health, La Jolla, CA Harm Reduction Education Program Development Dominick Zurlo, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM A Statewide Public Health Response to Overdose Gary Langis, Frontliner Consulting, Gloucester, MA
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Drug Using Community Mapping Room: Salon C
Fixing with Foucault: Using Social Therapy to Think Through Harm Reduction
Moderator: Narelle Ellendon, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Katherine McLean, National Development & Research Institutes, Inc, New York, NY
”Tell All Your Friends about It”: Incentive Driven Client Recruitment in Rural Communities
Applying the “Knowledge-to-Action” Approach in a Harm Reduction Setting
Lillian Fan, Southern Tier AIDS Program, Ithaca, NY
Ginetta Salvalaggio, University of Alberta—Department of Family Medicine, Edmonton, AB
Outreach Expansion: Community Mapping Initiative Nilamon Santos, Washington Heights CORNER Project, New York, NY Nick Van Breda, Washington Heights CORNER Project, New York, NY Building Truth: Experiences with a Community Research Project in Oakland
Effective Outreach Room: Salon G Moderator: Chris Heneghan, Windham Harm Reduction Coalition, Inc., Willimantic, CT Harm Reduction in Outreach Work & Engagement
Tazima Jenkins, RTI International, El Cerrito, CA
James Kowalsky, Heartland Alliance, Chicago, IL
Understanding Drug Use to Inform Harm Reduction
The Over the Influence Book Club
Margot Kuo, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC
Terry Morris, The San Francisco AIDS Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Working with Transgender Communities
Outreach Off of the Grid: Creative Engagement Strategies Using Harm Reduction
Room: Salon D Moderator: Naomi Braine, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY For Taking Care of Ourselves: A Peer Based Approach to Transgender Hormone Care Cyd Nova, St. James Infirmary, San Francisco, CA Navigating Drug Use, HIV & Sex Work Amu Ptah-Riojas, Independent, New York, NY Networking for Safe-T: A Community Effort to Deliver Primary Health Care to an Invisible, Marginalized, Uninsured, Undocumented, Previously Un-served Transgender Population Leonidas Cordova, Duke University—LGBT Task Force, Durham, NC
Chloe Gale, Evergreen Treatment Services, Seattle, WA WORKSHOP: SUBSTANCE USE MANAGEMENT Room: Eugene Substance Use Management: Helping People Plan for Safer Drug Use Patt Denning, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA Jennifer Fernandez, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA ROUNDTABLE: INJECTING IN THE BATHROOM Room: Salon H Participant Bathroom Management
Harm Reduction Public Policy Room: Portland
Taeko Frost, Washington Heights CORNER Project, New York, NY
Moderator: Hadiyah Charles, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Robert Childs, North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Durham, NC
Public Attitudes Towards Harm Reduction in BC
Mary Howe, Homeless Youth Alliance, San Francisco, CA
Despina Tzemis, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC
Willie Dudley, Casa Segura, Los Angeles, CA
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HIV & Primary Care
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Room: Medford Moderator: Christina Powers, RTI International, Oakland, CA Challenges implementing Rapid HIV Testing Katharina Wiest, Sarah Haverly, CODA, Portland, OR Ke Ola Pono-Native Hawaiian HIV Services Trisha Kajimura, Life Foundation, Honolulu, HI
Mindfulness Meditation: 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Increasing Access to Care and Support Services
Yael, Mindfulness Based Therapy, Portland, OR
for HIV Positive Homeless Individuals: Harlem Model
Location: Mount Hood
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Philadelphia FIGHT Service’s & Being Positive
S P A C E
Room: Salon E 9:30 am – 12:45 pm
Nancy Gunnarson, Philadelphia FIGHT, Philadelphia, PA
Simultaneous Breakouts and Open Space Harvesting continues in Salon E: After three or four full days (for those who started on Wednesday) of rigorous dialogues, making new connections, working through frustrations, finding insights and each other, What’s next? What responsibility are you going to take to move this work forward? Or join Harvest teams that will be working together to find themes and connections in the harvests that have been created during the conference.
Whoa Nasty, Whoa Good! Room: MeadowLark Weird Infectious Complication of Drug Use Phillip Coffin, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA What Should a Drug User Get From Primary Medical Care
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BREAKOUT SESSION 11: 9:30 am – 11:00 am
ROUNDTABLE: Integrating Harm Reduction into Traditional Models
NETWORKING MEETINGS, AFFINITY SESSIONS & OTHER ACTIVITIES: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Room: Salon A
12-Step Meeting
Harm Reduction & Integrated Care Environments: Challenging Staff’s Bias to Focus on Outcomes
Room: Salon B
Sonja Ervin, Central City Concern, Portland, OR GRASP (Grief Recovery after a Substance Passing) Room: Salon C
Workshop: Trauma
Organizer/Facilitator: Denise Cullen, Broken No More, Palm Desert, CA
Room: Salon B
GRASP meetings provide help, compassion and most of all, understanding, for families or individuals who have had a loved one die as a result of substance abuse or addiction.
Lydia Anne Bartholow, Independent, Portland, OR
Moderation Management Meeting Room: Salon H
The Physiology & Stewardship of Trauma Harm Reduction Therapy: Treating Trauma Mariko Obrero, Jeremy Rhoades, and Jennifer Plummer, Harm Reduction Therapy Center,San Francisco, CA Workshop: Hepatitis C Room: Salon C Hepatitis C in 2012 Betsy Ingram-Diver, Hepatitis C Association, Cloquet, MN
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Dope & Revolution
Mental Health
Room: Salon D
Room: Salon H
Dope & Revolution: Left Responses to the Drug War During the 1960s & 1970s
Working with SMI Populations from a Harm Reduction Perspective
Aaron Dixon, Former Chair of the Seattle Black Panther Party, Seattle, WA
Cynthia Hoffman, Independent, San Francisco, CA
Darnell White, Harder House, Seattle, WA
Ronald Schneider, The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn, NY
Mental Health Needs of Adolescents in Detention
Nora Callahan, November Coalition, Colville WA Chuck Armsbury, Independent, Colville, WA
PrEP
Gil Fagiani, Independent, New York, NY
Room: Medford
Drug Policy
Expanding the Toolbox: PrEP, Harm Reduction, and the Future of Prevention
Room: Portland
Charles Stephens, AIDS United, Washington, DC
Moderator: Mark Cooke, ACLU of Washington, Seattle, WA
Hadiyah Charles, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
The Unspoken Politics of Drug Treatment: How Drug Policy Mirrors & Creates Drug Treatment in the United States Patt Denning, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA Jamie Lavender, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA
Online Learning WORKSHOP: Building Communities Worskshop Room: MeadowLark Building Communities 24/5/365 with Online Learning
Medicalization: Reducing Harm, Regulating Supply
Shannon Riley, Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, San Francisco, CA
Daniel Robelo, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY
Chris Routh, Independent, San Francisco, CA
Syringe Access Laws in California: They Keep A-Changin’
Glenn Backes, Public Policy Research & Consulting, Sacramento, CA
BREAKOUT SESSION 12: 11:15 am – 12:45 pm Sex Trade & Law Enforcement
Harm Reduction Counseling Approaches
Room: Salon A
Room: Eugene
Harm Reduction & Law Enforcement Working as a Collaborative
Moderator: Susan Collins, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Eileen Corcoran, Evergreen Treatment Services—LEAD Project, Seattle, WA
Feeling “Stuck”: Therapist Wellness
People in the Sex Trade & Law Enforcement: A Complicated Relationship
Joe Ruggiero, Addiction Institute of New York, New York, NY New Approaches to Dual Diagnosis using Harm Reduction & Existentialism Mara Collins, Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition, Stone Mountain, GA
Shira Hassan, Young Women's Empowerment Project, Chicago, IL Serpent Libertine, Independent, Chicago, IL
The Nine Aspects of the Awesome Self Harm Reduction Recovery Model
BAD DATE LISTS
Walter Smith, Roxcomp, Roxbury, MA
Moderator: Melissa Broudo, SWP, SWOP-NYC, New York, NY
Room: Salon C Bad Date Lists: A Multi-City Comparison & Discussion Serpent Libertine, SWOP-Chicago, Chicago, IL Amy Muli, Bad Date Coalition, Toronto, ON Jenna Mellor, HIPS, Washington, DC Robert Childs, North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Durham, NC
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WORKSHOP: ADVANCED CLINICAL SKILLS Room: Salon D Advanced Clinical Skills Jeannie Little, Jamie Lavender, and Jennifer Plummer, Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA WORKSHOP: STAGES OF CHANGE Room: Portland Angel Brown, HIPS, Washington, DC Workshop: Assessing Agency Readiness Room: Salon G Are We There Yet? Assessing Agency Readiness for Program Evaluation Juli Powers, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc, Boston, MA Naomi Cozier, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc, Boston, MA Harm Reduction & Recovery Room: Salon H Moderator: Sharon Stancliff, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY Beyond the Harm Reduction/Recovery Binary Richard Elovich, Columbia University, Brooklyn, NY A Working definition of Recovery Grounded in Harm Reduction Sheila Vakharia, Florida International University, Miami, FL The Safe Recovery Project: High Impact Prevention for Injection Drug Users Ashley Berliner, Vermont Department of Health, Burlington, VT
CLOSING: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
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P O S T E R
P R E S E N TAT I O N S
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2012
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Social Justice through Community Art Making
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NEP Counseling as Entry Point for Harm Reduction
alery Shuman, Heartland Health Outreach Harm V Reduction Institute, Chicago, IL
ulie Romano, St Luke’s Roosevelt Center for J Comprehensive Care, New York, NY
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apacity Building Resources to Support C Integrating Overdose Prevention Practices in Drug & Alcohol Treatment Programs evin O’Rourke, Safe Point San Diego, K San Diego, CA
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utting Patient-Centered Evidence into Practice: P Development and Implementation of Knowledge Translation Resources for Disadvantaged Urban Patients who Suffer from Addiction
inetta Salvalaggio, University of Alberta— G Department of Family Medicine, Edmonton, AB
ifferences between the Way Researchers D and People who Inject Drugs Think About Research Participation
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eter Davidson, University of California, P San Diego, CA
heila Vakharia, Florida International University, S Miami, FL
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It Takes a Village (and Systems Alignment)
achael Duke, Home Forward’s Bud Clark R Commons, Portland, OR
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esign and Outcomes of an Integrated D Harm Reduction Approach
onja Ervin, Central City Concern, S Portland, OR
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2012 Fr PB1
ational Female Condom Survey on Awareness, N Attitudes, Access
anna Hjord, San Francisco Department of Public H Health, San Francisco, CA
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lcohol and Methamphetamine use during A sex among Japanese MSM recruited through the Internet akuya Shimane, National Institute of Mental T Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan I njection Drug Users’ Perceived Barriers to Using Self-Initiated Harm Reduction Strategies rin Bonar, Addiction Research Center, E Ann Arbor, MI easuring Harm Reduction Practices through M Quantitative and Qualitative Methods ara Moss, Real Change Homeless Empowerment T Project, Seattle, WA
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EXHIBIT HALL Harm Reduction Coalition: Booth 1 harmreduction.org Community Tables: Booths 4 & 5 Safety Work Inc.: Booth 6 1800safety2.com Female Health Company: Booth 7 femalehealthcompany.com Mothers Against Misuse and Abuse: Booth 8 mamas.org St. James Infirmary: Booth 9 stjamesinfirmary.org
University of California: Booth 12 Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL-NY): Booth 13 vocal-ny.org DanceSafe: Booth 14 dancesafe.org Harm Reduction Solutions: Booth 15 needleex.org PHS Community Services Society: Booths 16 & 17 phs.ca
OHSU Partnership Project: Booth 10 ohsu.edu/partnership
Moms United to End the War on Drugs: Booth 18 anewpathsite.org/ momsunited1.html
Austin Harm Reduction Coalition: Booth 11 austinharmreduction.org
Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive: Booth 19 hips.org Total Access Group: Booth 20 totalaccessgroup.com
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Edmond / Streetworks: Booth 21 steetworks.ca Cascade AIDS Project: Booth 22 cascadeaids.org Housing Works: Booth 23 housingworks.org Harm Reduction Therapy Center: Booth 24 harmreductiontherapy.org Release: Booth 25 release.org.uk Caring Ambassadors Program Inc. Booth 26 hepcchallenge.org Drug Policy Alliance: Booths 27 and 28 drugpolicy.org
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Program Committee
Research Committee
Alfonso L. Forbes, Consulting Services, Boston, MA
Richard Curtis, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Andrew Tatarsky, The Center for Optimal Living, New York, NY
Richard Elovitch, Columbia University, New York, NY
Beth Herman, Independent, Encinitas, CA
Samuel Friedman, National Development and Research Institute,
Camille Anacabe, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, CA
New York, NY
Clayton Ruley, Prevention Point Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Loretta Grau, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Cyndee Clay, Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive, Washington, DC
Susan G Sherman, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
David Acosta, Philadelphia Department of Health, Philadelphia, PA
Public Health, Baltimore, MD
David Rosenthal, Columbia University, New York, NY
Barbara Tempalski, National Development and Research
Denise Paone, New York City Department of Health, New York, NY
Institute, New York, NY
Deon Haywood, Women with a Vision, New Orleans, LA Don McVinney, Harlem United, New York, NY
Local Organizing Committee/Host Agency—Our House
Ed Stellon, Midwest Harm Reduction Institute, Chicago, IL
Kim Hutchinson, Our House
Emalie Huriaux, San Francisco Department of Public Health,
Kristin Riley, Our House
San Francisco, CA
Kristy Flemming, Our House
Haven Wheelock, Outside In, Portland, OR
Athena Dorey, Our House and Portland Harm Reduction Therapy
Imany Henry, Independent, New York, NY
Kim Toevs, Multnomah County Health Department
Jamie Favaro, Washington Heights Corner Project, New York, NY
Lindsay Jenkins, Multnomah County Health Department
Jerome King, Well of Hope, Paterson, NJ
Amanda Hurley, Cascade AIDS Project
Juba Kalamka, Independent, San Francisco, CA
Peter Geissert, Portland Overdose Prevention Project
Kelli Dorsey, Different Avenues, Washington, DC
Marc Lejeune, Outside In and Multnomah County Health Department
Kimya Hodari, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Haven Wheelock, Outside In
Kirk Read, Independent, San Francisco, CA
Julia Lager, Mesulam, OHSU / Partnership Project
Lara Coffin, The People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, Seattle, WA
Jude Leahy, Adult Viral Hepatitis Prevention
Lindsay Jenkins, Multnomah City Health Department, Portland, OR
Lydia Bartholow, Oregon Health Science University
Lorren Sandt, Caring Ambassadors Program, Oregon City, OR
Pawnee Brown, Independent
Luis Ortega, Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation, Tucson, AZ
Aviel Forster, Multnomah County Health Department
Marc LeJeune, Outside In, Portland, OR
Alison Noice, CODA Inc.
Marion Riedel, Columbia University, New York, NY
Lorren Sandt, Hepatitis C Caring Ambassadors Program
Mary Wheeler, Northeast Behavioral Health, Peabody, MA
Lydia Bartholow, Independent
Michael Carden, Cornell University, New York, NY
Heidi Pannke, Outside In
Michael Ninburg, Hepatitis Education Project, Seattle, WA Mona Bennett, Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition, Atlanta, GA Naomi Akers, St. James Infirmary, San Francisco, CA Natalie Schraner, Portland Women’s Crisis Line, Portland, OR Pamela Lynch, WhoSoEver, Detroit, MI Peter Geissert, Portland Overdose Prevention Program, Portland, OR Rafael Torruella, Proyecto Intercambio del Este, Fajardo, PR Rosario M. Lopez Rivera, Project Hospitality, Bronx, NY Sharon Garrett, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Stacey Swimme, Sex Worker’s Outreach Project, San Francisco, CA Zina Age, Aniz, Inc. Atlanta, GA
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HARM REDUCTION COALITION STAFF
Board of Directors Russell Barbour, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
New York Office
Nabarun Dasgupta, Project Lazarus & University
22 West 27 Street, 5 Floor, New York, NY 10001
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Phone: (212) 213-6376 Fax: (212) 213-6582
Larry Gonzalez, 32BJ Benefit Funds, New York, NY
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Moya Brown, Curriculum Writer/Trainer Allan Clear, Executive Director Hadiyah Charles, Hepatitis C Advocacy Manager Eric Dorris, Intern / Conference Volunteer Narelle Ellendon, Co-Director of Capacity Building Michael Terry Everett, Organizational Capacity Building Manager Tawanna Fowler, Finance Supervisor Maria (Sam) Josepher, Deputy Director
Mark Kinzly, StreetWorks, Nashville TN Alex Kral, RTI International, San Francisco, CA Ruben Medina, RC Consulting Solutions, Inc. New York, NY Lisa Moore, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA William O. Pick, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC Susan Sherman, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
Velvet Lattimore, Program Coordinator Nilda Lino, Office/IT Manager William Matthews, Project Coordinator Demetrius McCord, Director of Operations and Administration Skylar Panuska, Evaluation Manager Lazara Paz, Community Building Advisor Erica Poellot, Development Manager Daniel Raymond, Director of Policy Anistla Rugama, Special Projects Coordinator Paula Santiago, National Conference Organizer Sharon Stancliff, Medical Director Marissa Stiebel, Program Evaluation Assistant Adam Viera, Co-Director of Capacity Building Nantasha Williams, Conference Assistant Emily Winkelstein, Resource Development and Communication California Office 1440 Broadway, Suite 510, Oakland, CA 94612
Mission Statement
The Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC) is a national advocacy and capacity building organization that promotes the health and dignity of individuals and communities impacted by drug use. Harm Reduction Coalition advances policies and programs that help people address the diverse effects of drug use including overdose, HIV, hepatitis C, addiction and incarceration. We recognize that the structures of social inequality impact the lives and options of affected communities differently, and work to uphold every individual’s right to health and well-being, as well as their competence to protect themselves, their loved ones, and their communities.
Phone: (510) 444-6969 Fax: (510) 444-6977 Katie Burk, Syringe Access Service Community Mobilization Manager Hilary McQuie, Regional Director Roger Schaefer, Office & Training Program Administrator Eliza Wheeler, DOPE Project Manager Washington, DC Phone: (202) 730-5035 Whitney Englander, Government Relations Manager
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