This handbook is for multiple audiences. Those in one (or more) of the following roles may find it useful: people with lived or living experience of substance use; community advocates; harm reduction providers; public health professionals; substance use prevention and treatment providers; program and policy developers; social service and anti-violence service providers; health care practitioners; first responders, and public safety professionals.
This handbook can be used alone as a self-guided workbook, or in a small group with or without facilitation. It can support self-reflection, community coordination, and the important cross-agency and system-wide conversations about how to widen and improve the response to substance use. It can also inspire respectful and destigmatizing conversations with people who use substances and engage with peer support networks. (author introduction)