Consultation/Contract Trainings

HRTI consultants are available for a fee to provide technical assistance to your group in two areas:

Program Development—Consultants can conduct needs assessment and evaluation, identify appropriate harm reduction services for your agency, and develop an implementation and service integration plan.
Curriculum Development—Consultants can develop curricula for academic courses or other professional training programs.

The trainings offered in our quarterly calendars are also available on a consultant basis for your agency. If you are interested in bringing any of the workshops from this calendar (or other need-specific trainings) to your agency, please contact Rebecca Stryjewski, National Training Coordinator, Tel. 212.683.2334x18 Email: stryjewski@harmreduction.org, for details and fees. Note: Fees for training and consulting are based upon client's ability to pay and trainer's experience. In addition to training fees, clients are responsible for travel expenses.

Training Content & Format

Curricula and Sessions: HRTI curriculum continually evolves to reflect developments in practice. We offer regularly scheduled trainings at our centers in New York, San Francisco and Oakland; trainings are also developed specific to group needs and delivered on-site. Longer training sessions usually culminate in a strategy session to develop steps that your community or agency might take toward your chosen goals. Trainers are also available to deliver conference presentations or workshops.

HRTI offers two kinds of workshops:

Training Workshops are skills-based and are designed to promote practical skills, facilitate rapid applications in direct practice, and to transfer cutting-edge technologies in working with drug users.

Educational Workshops are knowledge-based and are designed to promote new ways of understanding an issue related to drug-related harm, present new research findings on a topic area, and to enhance critical thinking about contemporary social problems.

The following are examples of previous trainings. These are placed within the context of harm reduction philosophy and practice. See schedule for current classes or contact HRTI for consultant-based trainings on a specific area of interest.

Harm Reduction Overview, Intermediate and Advanced Courses
The Spectrum of Harm Reduction, Drug Treatment Modalities and Recovery
Substance Use Management: An Exploration of the Spectrum of Strategies for Working with People around Their Drug Use
Practical Drug Information: Various Substances and Safer Methods of Using, Including Sessions Focused on Amphetamines, Opiates, Alcohol, Cocaine and Other Drugs
Moderation Management: A Harm Reduction Approach to Alcohol Use
HIV/AIDS Prevention, Interventions and Testing
Medical Case Management of Drug Users Living with HIV/AIDS
Low Threshold Services: Bringing Social, Medical and Mental Health Services to Isolated Communities
Mental Health: Clinical Psychology, Counseling, Case Management and Other Mental Health Services
Clinical Supervision: Training Supervisors in Supporting Harm Reduction Workers
Dual Diagnosis: Cross Training for Substance Use and Mental Health Professionals
Pain Management: Prescribing and Dosing
Drug-Related Health Issues: Identification, Prevention and Treatment
Strategies to Promote Adherence for Individuals with Mental Health and Substance Use Issues
Harm Reduction with Specific Populations: Communities of Color, Queer Communities, Women, Men, Youth, Homeless and Street-Based Populations, Sex Workers
Harm Reduction Approaches to Sexual Health
Safer Body Piercing
Leadership Development: Community Organizing and Advocacy
Peer-Based Programs: Peer Education, Research, Advocacy and Support
Housing and Harm Reduction
Sexual Abuse: The Relationship Between HIV/AIDS, Drugs and Sexual Trauma
Domestic Violence: Utilizing Harm Reduction Strategies Towards Prevention and Intervention
Syringe Exchange: Program Development and Implementation, Policy and Research
Hepatitis C: Overview, Prevention and Treatment
Needs Assessment and Evaluation of Harm Reduction Interventions
The World Health Organizations Rapid Method: A Technique for Assessing a Community's Risk of an Injection Drug Use Related HIV Outbreak