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National Harm Reduction Coalition
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National Harm Reduction Coalition creates spaces for dialogue and action that help heal the harms caused by racialized drug policies.

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🧵Our Peer Foundational Training Program is back! This in-person program, hosted @ our NYC office, runs from April-June. The free weekly peer sessions, covering a range of #HarmReduction topics, are held every Wednesday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. w/ an hour lunch break. Peers are expected to attend all...
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
🧵We deserve access to #StigmaFree health care & resources to help us make informed decisions about our bodies. The more we know, the better we can care for ourselves & support people in our care. Healthier, safer communities are possible when we have the tools & will needed to make this a reality.
January 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
🧵Our communities do not have to live & die this way. We demand our human right to health care — including #HarmReduction — & freedom from violence are honored. Read the collective statement published by our friends @harmreductionintl.bsky.social, in which NHRC was one of many organizations...
January 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM
🧵Start the new year off with free learning opportunities, including our upcoming Foundational Fridays session, "Syringe Access 101!" Through this webinar, we'll explore the critical role of sterile syringe access in saving lives, promoting #PublicHealth, & reducing...
bit.ly/SyringeAccess1012026
January 5, 2026 at 5:39 PM
🧵As the year comes to an end, we're taking time for institutional pause & rest. Starting 1 p.m. local time tomorrow — Jan. 2, NHRC will be closed. We'll resume our normal hours Monday, Jan 5. As always, resources, including our #Naloxone Finder map, can be found 24/7...
bit.ly/NaloxoneFinderMap
December 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🧵NHRC is fighting for the communities our #Healthcare, criminal-legal, & social service systems continue to abandon. Our team, many w/ lived experience, trains providers in #StigmaFree care, builds the capacity of #SyringeServicesPrograms, supports peer leaders,

bit.ly/SupportNHRCEndOfYear2025
December 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
🧵We are heartbroken over the devastating loss of so many community members who died or were killed while experiencing #Homelessness. Each of the people we've lost deserved safety, health care, a safe place to retreat to & lay their head at night, & their humanity to be honored.
December 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Your voice matters in the #HarmReduction movement, & you deserve a job you love. Come work with us! NHRC is hiring a #Housing & #Shelter Capacity Building Coordinator (O-PHRESH). To learn more and apply, visit: bit.ly/NHRCCareers.

#HarmReductionSavesLives #WorkWithUs #JobOpening #EndOverdose
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🧵As 2025 comes to a close, we’re looking at a landscape that represents both progress & heartbreak. Last year, the U.S. saw the largest decline in #Overdose deaths ever recorded, a promising 27% drop nationally. That happened because #HarmReduction works. Investing in...
bit.ly/NHRCEOYGiving
December 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🧵 #SexWorkIsWork, & #WorkShouldBeSafe. Together, we must build a world in which sex workers don't experience violence, harassment, exploitation, or disrespect. On International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers & beyond, we must do more than mourn those whose lives were stolen by violence...
December 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🧵NHRC’s @hrc-lighthouse.bsky.social hosted “Centering Care: A #GenderAffirming #HarmReduction Workshop for Social Service Providers” at NHRC’s NYC office. The day-long workshop sessions, which included lectures, discussions, & interactive group activities, focused on Harm Reduction History
December 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
#TobaccoHarmReduction (#THR) is #HarmReduction. Join us starting Friday for our free webinar series focused on breaking down person-centered care & how THR saves lives, improves health, & honors #BodilyAutonomy!

Dec. 12: bit.ly/HowTobaccoHarmReductionWorks
March 11: bit.ly/PersonCenteredTHR
December 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
🧵At the 2025 #CASEP (California #SyringeExchange Program) Conference, harm reductionists & other social justice activists from across CA gathered in San Francisco for a range of sessions covering solution building, #GriefWork & collective healing, addressing #Burnout, & much more. The conference...
December 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🧵Join us for our latest free Foundational Fridays training, "Sexual & Reproductive Health 101!" Through this webinar, we'll emphasize a #HarmReduction approach to guide attendees through how to engage w/ individuals in respectful, non-judgmental conversations about...
bit.ly/SexualandReproHealth2025
December 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🧵For 30 years, NHRC has refused to back down, & we’re not stopping now. Together with #SyringeServicesPrograms ( #SSPs), grassroots organizers, & leaders w/ lived & living experience, we’ve kept life-saving work alive even when the odds were against us. This work is
bit.ly/SupportNHRCGivingTuesday
December 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🧵The #HarmReduction movement & NHRC exist because people living with & dying of #AIDS — & others who loved & cared for them — stepped up to take care of each other when the government left them behind. Today, we see heightened attacks on the very programs & services we fought so hard to create to...
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🧵As we approach #GivingTuesday on December 2 & celebrate NHRC’s 30th anniversary — 3 decades of championing & uplifting the #HarmReduction movement — we reflect on the extraordinary wisdom & collective power of the people & communities we work with & for.

bit.ly/SupportNHRCGivingTuesday
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🧵Today, we hold grief & sorrow along with love & tenacity as we honor trans loved ones whose lives were stolen by anti-trans violence & structural oppressions. It's on all of us to answer the call to change the culture & systems that allow this abuse, persecution, & erasure. Collectively, we must..
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
creating healthier, safer communities that empower people who use drugs & all people. Learn more about hepatitis C from the resource center on our website at the link above!

#Hepatitis #HepC #HepCULater #HCV #HepatitisAwareness #SupportNotStigma #HarmReductionIsHealthCare #HealthCareIsAHumanRight
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🧵#HarmReduction saves lives, prevents the spread of blood-borne viruses including #HepatitisC, & connects people w/ health care options to manage & treat hepatitis C — among other health needs. #HealthCareIsAHumanRight, & life-saving information & resources are crucial to...

bit.ly/HepCResources
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🧵While this release was shared some time ago, the message remains evergreen, & long after #VeteransDay has ended:

"Harm reduction is a public health approach that aims to minimize the negative health, social, and legal impacts associated with drug use. It recognizes...
bit.ly/VetsAndHarmReduction
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
🧵NHRC hosted a series of community engagement & train-the-trainer sessions across Wyoming, reviving vital #HarmReduction work in a frontier state in which people have long faced barriers to access & support. Through the sessions, which were facilitated by NHRC Consultant Courtney Titus in...
November 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Drug users' rights are #HumanRights — full stop. This is true on #InternationalDrugUsersDay & the other 364 days of the year. Today & always at NHRC, we will continue our life-saving, evidence-backed #HarmReduction work that centers the people most impacted by drug use: People who use drugs.
November 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🧵Join us at @drugpolicy.org’s International #DrugPolicy #Reform conference! NHRC’s Capacity Building & #HepatitisC Coordinator, Jose Martinez, who also manages NHRC’s PeerUp program, will facilitate an affinity group gathering, “The Resurrection of the Peer Workforce” on Friday, Nov. 14 from...
October 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM