Program: DC Engage
Community Mapping and Identifying Priority Populations for HIV Prevention and Care
This 2023 Community Mapping Toolkit for D.C. Organizations details how visualizing health disparities can help outreach programs for HIV prevention. The toolkit explores how community mapping can support your work, what goes into creating a community map, and how to use mapping tools that are available online.
Understanding and Addressing Stigma and Discrimination in Addiction
This webinar will briefly review the new knowledge gained during the past 50 years. The faculty will describe the shifts in cultural understanding of addiction that have given rise to new research and approaches that can help reduce stigma and discrimination against people with substance use disorders.
Culture and Society: Influencers of Mental Health and Substance Misuse
This webinar will discuss how to promote equity, improve access, and increase retention in care among BIPOC communities in healthcare.
Aging Gracefully with Harm Reduction: Reducing Harm and Enhancing Well-Being
This session provides a non-clinical view of harm reduction, with a particular focus on its intersection with aging.
Destigmatization of Drug Use
This session explores the impact of stigma on people who have been diagnosed with substance use disorder (SUD) and those who are not clinically diagnosed but display symptoms. The presenter examines the relationship between stigma and systemic racism, as well as racism’s compounding effect on access to healthcare services for people who use drugs. The presenter also provides strategies for challenging stigma and misconceptions about SUD.
Harm Reduction and Family
This training provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of harm reduction and its practical application in daily life.
Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: The Seven Therapeutic Tasks, Skills and Strategies
Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy consists of seven therapeutic tasks: managing the therapeutic alliance, the therapeutic relationship heals, enhancing self-management, assessment as treatment, embracing ambivalence, harm reduction goal setting and personalized planning for positive change.
The New Paradigm in Addiction Treatment: Introduction to Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (IHRP), Clinical Rationale, Theory and Technique
Drawing on relational, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness therapies, IHRP techniques are uniquely tailored to each person. A central focus on therapeutic alliance and relationship creates a safe context in which to clarify the meanings and functions of risky and addictive behavior, enhance self-regulation and develop alternative healthier, self-affirming solutions.
TIP 63: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) reviews the use of the three Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medications used to treat OUD—methadone, naltrexone, and buprenorphine—and the other strategies and services needed to support recovery for people with OUD.
The Opioid Crisis and the Black/African American Population: An Urgent Issue
This issue brief presents recent data on prevalence of opioid misuse and death rates in the Black/AA population; contextual factors & challenges to prevention & treatment; innovative outreach & engagement strategies to connect people to evidence-based treatment; and the importance of community voice.