Category: Youth
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Co-Created: Empowering Youth Through Digital Storytelling
Our project using digital storytelling to explore young adults’ experiences with cannabis harm reduction is featured in an episode of the Co-Created podcast, hosted by my colleague Kritsy Wolfe: Empowering Youth Through Digital Storytelling Top 5 Key Messages 1. Focus on Health Inequities 1:29 Rebecca explains her sociological training and how she focuses on health and…
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Kitchen Table Night – Online Event
Join us for an online story sharing circle on November 25th with the Common Language Digital Storytelling Collective. We will be viewing and discussing stories from the Young Adult Cannabis Harm Reduction digital storytelling project – featuring appearances by storytellers from Alberta. You can register here: https://commonlanguagedst.org/kitchen-table-nights
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Roll With It – Online event
Join us for a screening to launch our cannabis harm reduction digital stories series November 6th. We will be screening nine digital stories created by young adults, for young adults and three PSAs from the Get Sensible! project. You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/roll-with-it-youth-creating-cannabis-content-tickets-1048975041587
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Searching for a Drug Strategy: May 30
On May 30, 2024, a town hall meeting was held to address the escalating opioid crisis and discuss comprehensive strategies involving prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and enforcement. The event featured several distinguished speakers who provided insights based on their expertise and experiences in various aspects of drug policy and public health. Dr. Rebecca Haines-Saah, a…
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Crackdown podcast – Kids on the Block youth harm reduction special series
Listen to our special three part series Kids on the Block from the Crackdown Podcast featuring stories of youth harm and reduction: Episode 42: Bones // Episode 43: Jade // Episode 44: Danny A note about the title of this series: “Kids on the Block” is a phrase drug users on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside yell…
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CPHA Webinar: Engaging YPWUD
This session brought together a panel of speakers to showcase projects, resources, and tools centered around engaging youth and young people who use cannabis and other drugs. Presenters spoke to the barriers that young people who use drugs (YPWUD) experience in healthcare settings, challenges and opportunities in engaging YPWUD and provide insight into how clinicians…