It’s Our Backyard Too: Building Community-Centered Support for Harm Reduction

1

Introduction
- Introduction
- How to use this Toolkit
- Pre-Survey
2

Identify Personal and Community Values
- Identify Personal and Community Values Introduction
- Why Harm Reduction Values are Important
- What Does It Mean to Go Into Coalition with People Who Share Our Values
- What to Expect in this Module
- Values Exploration
- A Primer on Community Power, Place, and Structural Change
- Act, Strategies, Community Building
- Identifying and Analyzing Community Stakeholders and their Interests
- How to do a Stakeholder Analysis for Community Development
- Intersectionality: Origin, Importance, and the Future
- We're all just different! How Intersectionality is Being Colonized
- Intersectionality: Origin, Importance, and the Future Discussion
- Intersectionality, Cultural Humility, and Health
- Intersectionality, Cultural Humility, and Health Discussion
- Now You're Ready to Build Power? Power Mapping
- Power Mapping Your Way to Success
- Harm Reduction Our Way: A Values Exploration with NHRC and Trystereo
3

Putting Values into Practice
- Putting Values into Practice Introduction
- Introducing the Harm Reduction Principles
- Harm Reduction Principles Handout
- Discussion Questions
- Building Solidarity in the South
- Sex Work + Harm Reduction Intro
- Sex Work + Harm Reduction 101
- Sex Work + Harm Reduction Handout
- Journaling our Progress
- NIMBYism
- NIMBYs and Harm Reduction
- Let’s Talk Syringe Litter
- Let's Talk Syringe Litter
- Harm Reduction x Abolition Exploration
- Harm Reduction x Abolition Pre-Survey
- The Abolitionist Toolkit- Critical Resistance
- Abolishing Policing Community Organizers Toolkit
- 8 to Abolition Handout
- 8 to Abolition Resources
- Death by Distribution Fact Sheet
- DPA Drug Induced Homicide Report
- Penn State Law Review on Drug Delivery
- Harm Reduction x Abolition Post-Survey
- Stories from the Field: Shifting Material Resources Toward Harm Reduction
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Support for Harm Reduction in Your Community
- Support for Harm Reduction in Your Community Introduction
- Time to Take Action
- What Does a Supportive Environment for Harm Reduction Look Like?
- Legislative Advocacy vs. Budget Advocacy
- Overview of Legislative Advocacy
- Common Syringe Access Barriers
- Examples of Syringe Access Legislation
- Resources to Learn More
- What about your area?
- Overview of Budget Advocacy
- What about your budget?
- Sample Budget Request
- Tips For Talking To Elected Officials
- Creating Community Champions & Why I Organize
- Tips for Organizers from Organizers
- Tips On Promoting Racial Equity in Organizing Spaces
- Lobby Day Prep
- Take Action!
5

Case Studies
- Case Studies Introduction
- CASEP + CORRE People's Timeline (Part 1)
- CASEP + CORRE People's Timeline (Part 2)
- St. James Infirmary: Centering Sex Workers in Service Provision
- St. James Infirmary: Centering Sex Workers in Service Provision (Part 2)
- St. James Infirmary: Centering Sex Workers in Service Provision (Part 3)
- Texas Harm Reduction Alliance: Defunding the Police
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Conclusion
- Congratulations!
- Exit Survey