To aid frontline workers in their daily work, Connecting - A Guide to Utilizing Harm Reduction Supplies as Engagement Tools was created. This manual is a tribute to all those who have trusted frontline workers to share their insights. Programs and services are always evolving as a result of these ties and interactions.
The purpose of this toolkit is to improve the work harm reduction programmes do with drug-using women. It includes a number of tools that can be utilised in combination, apart, or in other inventive ways.
Organizations using this toolkit have to be using harm reduction programming and have a firm grasp of what harm reduction is.
This guide arose from the need to acknowledge the difficulty of death and to provide staff with support and a resource. Natural causes, accidental death, suicide, and overdose are all possible causes of death or near-death in violence against women (VAW) shelters. Deaths in the community, such as women killed by their partners, have a significant impact on VAW shelters. Regardless of where the death occurs, it is extremely difficult and traumatic for the organization and its employees. While deaths and near-deaths in VAW are uncommon, the issue of overdose deaths in the community as a whole is intensifying and growing, and this has the potential to impact the VAW sector.
The organizations’ mandate is to ensure that the voices of women with lived experience are integral to the development and implementation of public policy. In 2014, encouraged by the Board of Directors, WomenatthecentrE embarked on a participatory action research project to explore the physical and emotional impact of strangulation on women survivors who had experienced strangulation within the context of an intimate partner relationship.