- Orientation
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Welcome!
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Course overview
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Technology requirements
- Week 1: Behavior Change Theory: Introduction and Overview
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Week 1 Webcast: Thursday, March 23, 2:00-3:15 pm ET
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Read: A 'Stages of Change' Approach to Helping Patients Change Behavior
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Read: Person Centered Therapy
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Read: Enhancing Motivation for Change in Problem Drinking
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Read: Stages of Change - Client / Provider chart
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Watch: Brenee Brown on Empathy
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Watch: Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care
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Week 1 Quiz
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Week 1 Webcast Recording
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Week 1 Slide Deck
- Week 2: Harm Reduction and Substance Use
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Week 2 Webcast, Thursday, March 30, 2:00-3:15 pm ET
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Read: We Don't Start with Needles in our Arm
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Read: It's time to stop kicking people out of addiction treatment
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Read: The Price of Relief: Why America Can't Kick It's Painkiller Problem
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Watch: Why everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
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Video: John Oliver on Opiods
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Read: Harm Reduction Strategies
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Week 2 Quiz
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Week 2 Webcast Recording
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Week 2 Slide Deck
- Week 3: Harm Reduction and Sexual Risk
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Week 3 Webcast: Thursday, April 6, 2:00-3:15 pm ET
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Read: Sexual Harm Reduction Practices of HIV-seropositive Gay and Bisexual Men
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Read: Sex Work Harm Reduction
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Read: Male Sex Worker Handbook
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Watch: Risk Reduction Sexual Health Project
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Week 3 Quiz
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Week 3 Webcast Recording
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Week 3 Slide Deck
- Week 4: Implementing Harm Reduction Models
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Week 4 Webcast: Thursday, April 13, 2:00-3:15 pm ET
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Read: 10 Tips for Understanding Someone with PTSD
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Read: Avoiding re-traumatization
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Read: Psychological needs of survivors
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Complete: MI Self Appraisal
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Watch: The Paradox of Trauma-Informed Care
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Week 4 Quiz
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Week 4 Webcast Recording
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Week 4 Slide Deck
- Week 5: Application of Harm Reduction and Self-Care Strategies
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Week 5 Webcast: Thursday, April 20, 2:00-3:15 pm ET
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Read: Harm Reduction Implementation Guide
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Read: Out of Harm's Way
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Complete: Self-care Tool
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Read: Self-care Wheel
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Complete: Self-care Plan
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Watch: How to Make Stress Your Friend
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Watch: I am a Social Worker
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Interview with Father Greg Boyle, author of "Tattoos on the Heart"
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Week 5 Webcast Recording
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Week 5 Slide Deck
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Week 5 Quiz
- Course Wrap-Up
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Course Evaluation
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Certificate Request Form
- Additional Resources Coming Soon!
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Week 1 Webcasts Additional Video
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Week 1 Webcasts Additional Video
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Week 5 Webcast Additional Handout
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Read: Harm Reduction
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Listen: Podcast: History Buff Special: Early Days of Needle Exchange in NYC
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Watch: Bunny and Wolf: An Animated Guide to Prevent Overdose Deaths
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Watch: The Science of Relapse
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Watch: "The First Seven Minutes"
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Read: Guide to Developing and Managing Overdose Prevention and Take-Home Naloxone Projects
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Read: Peer-Delivered Syringe Exchange Tool Kit
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Read: What Nobody Tells You About Self-Care
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t3 Threads Blog: Dealing with Frustration & Heartbreak While Supporting Clients
Client Centered Behavior Change: Using a Harm Reduction Approach: Spring 2017
Have you ever struggled to support a client in changing their behavior? Do you ever feel like your clients want to change, but do not follow through with their intentions? Do you ever feel like you want change for your clients more than they want to change themselves?
During this five-week course geared for providers working directly with individuals experiencing homelessness, substance use, or other instability, participants will learn and understand theories of behavior change and harm-reduction approaches to better support clients to make and sustain changes in behaviors. Guided by Motivational Interviewing and Trauma-Informed Care approaches, topics will include (but not limited to):
- Behavior Change Theory
- History and Philosophy of Harm Reduction
- Behavior Change and Substance Use
- Behavior Change and Sexual Risk
- Conducting Risk Assessments
Harm Reduction can be applied on a wide range of topics with a wide range of populations. This course is focused more specifically for individuals and agencies working with marginalized populations who are at high risk for STIs, overdose, and other negative health outcomes.