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Live training sessions
Harm Reduction Navigator Certification
Dates: July 17-18, 2025, 9:00 am-2:30 pm
Location: Virtual, Google Meet
This training is designed to teach participants the basics of harm reduction for people who use drugs. Participants will learn to apply these principles to meet individuals where they are and utilize compassion to help mitigate the harms of substance use. The intended audiences for this training are syringe exchange program staff and others who work adjacent to substance use. If you have questions, please contact syringeexchange@utah.gov.
Harm Reduction Navigator Recertification
Date: August 1, 2025, 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Location: Location: Virtual, Google Meet
Recertification sessions are intended for individuals who completed the initial Harm Reduction Navigator training more than two years ago. The three-hour recertification training will be a refresher on the foundational principles of harm reduction and address recent developments in the field. Recertification is highly recommended for syringe exchange staff and volunteers. If you have questions about the status of your certification, please contact syringeexchange@utah.gov.
HIV Testing and Counseling Training
July 7: Prevention Counseling, Part 1 9:00 am - 2:30 pm
July 9: Prevention Counseling, Part 2 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
July 10: Rapid Lab Technician 9:00 am - 10:30 am; Rapid Lab Test Site Administrator 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
This training is for this living in Utah seeking certification to conduct HIV rapid testing and counseling. Anyone outside of Utah is welcome to attend for educational purposes. More information
On-demand training
Changing Minds: Implementing Harm Reduction
National Association of Alcoholism Counselors and Trainers
This webinar focuses on the impact of staff training to change staff attitudes regarding harm reduction interventions. The training outlines a process undertaken at The Bridge of Central MA from 2016-2017, using the Learning Collaborative model to plan and execute trainings in harm reduction. The presentation reviews the tracking of process and outcomes using the Harm Reduction Acceptability Scale (HRAS), and recommendations for implementing similar training packages in a variety of settings.
Harm Reduction Treatment for PWUD
National Association of Alcoholism Counselors and Trainers
This program reviews some of the basic information on harm reduction treatment with individuals who use substances. Total abstinence is not always the answer, especially in low risk situations and with younger drug users. Understanding that there are alternatives to finding a path to recovery allows clients to open up about their struggles, feeling secure in setting their own goals, and normalizing the relapses that all addiction professions know will occur. This webinar includes recent research findings on clinician acceptance of harm reduction treatment.
Compassion Fatigue and Burnout for Providers
National Association of Alcoholism Counselors and Trainers
This webinar defines and distinguishes health-risks commonly experienced by helping professionals, specifically burnout and compassion fatigue. The webinar emphasizes both risk factors and protective factors for these stressors within individuals and organizations, and provides a means to assess one’s personal vulnerability to these.
Harm Reduction Online Training Institute
National Harm Reduction Coalition
Harm reduction strategies and tools should be accessible to everyone regardless of location, time and or experience. National Harm Reduction Coalition offers a series of self-paced online learning modules that groups and individuals can complete on their own schedule and terms, anytime and anywhere.
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