9.30-11.00am
Welcome
Pat and Maddie O’Hare from HIT will welcome everyone to the conference.
Colleen Daniels
Colleen will be speaking about the recently released Harm Reduction International report into the Global State of Harm Reduction.
Peter Furlong
Peter will be talking about his observations over the last couple of decades around harm reduction development and the lack of attention over the last 10 years the UK in certain areas/aspects, but how the current re-focus and re-investment is an opportunity to regenerate harm reduction as a core ethos across all drug and alcohol treatment services.
Tracey Kemp
Tracey will talk about a commitment to supporting the elimination of Hepatitis C by 2025 and will share examples of best practice relating to the Hepatitis C elimination strategy.
Danny Ahmed
Danny will be speaking about Diamorphine Assisted Treatment in Middlesbrough: When providing life changing, evidenced based, cost effective treatment isn’t enough.
11.30-12.45pm
Phoenix AKA Mohawk
Phoenix will be speaking about their work delivering harm reduction within the dance community in New York that allows that community to be able to use substances in a safer and more confident manner.
Lee Hertel
Lee will be speaking about his years of running an unfunded grass-roots syringe programme.
Peter Krykant
Peter will be speaking about his grass roots activism including his setting up and running of an unsanctioned drug consumption space in Glasgow.
12.45-2.15pm
Lunch and Transform Workshop
Over the lunch break Transform will be running a workshop for people wanting to be more
involved in policy reform.
2.15-3.30pm
Jesse Bernard
Jesse explores how the criminalisation of Black music in the UK, rising figures in stop and search and school exclusions have become increasingly linked.
Mackayla Forde
Mackayla will be discussing coloniality, and the ways in which stories and language – considered the least reliable forms of data according to western science – can be utilised to counter and transform narratives around oppression as well as the landscape of current research methods.
4.00-5.15pm
Haven Wheelock
Haven will be speaking about her work with Outside In and the wider impact that the initiative to decriminalise drugs in the state of Oregon is likely to have on the services they can provide to people using drugs.
Magdalena Harris
Safe inhalation pipe provision (SIPP): Intervening to transform harm reduction provision for people who use crack cocaine in England. The SIPP (Safe inhalation pipe provision) intervention has been developed with people who use crack. It consists of a kit with heat -resistant glass pipe, risk reduction information, and tailored training for service providers.
Karin Silenzi de Stagni
Welfare has long been integral to alternative spaces, and PsyCare was formed out of a peer-led initiative to keep the people who use drugs in our communities safe.
Cavern Club
Join us after the conference in the Cavern Club Live Lounge for a night of music! Doors open at 7.30pm.
Acts playing this year:
- THE SENSATIONAL HIT SOUL BAND ,
- THE TENEMENTS ,
- RED MEDUSA ,
- CROOK DISTRICT
Thanks to our conference sponsors
