Harm Reduction Trainings
National Harm Reduction Coalition facilitates trainings around the country. We open our virtual doors to individuals and teams seeking training on important evidence-based harm reduction strategies.
Join a training
Our public training sessions are open to all who wish to attend. Whether you’re part of a community-based or harm reduction organization, or you’re an individual who loves people who use drugs and want to learn how to support them, we invite you to join us. Please note the calendar below exclusively focuses on our public virtual, free trainings and webinars.
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- 29Las Americas Session #2 – Decolonizing Harm Reduction: Centering Cultural Safety and Language Justice/ Las Américas Sesión # 2 – Descolonizar la reducción de daños: priorizar la seguridad cultural y la justicia lingüística1:00 pm - 3:00 pmLas Americas Session #2 – Decolonizing Harm Reduction: Centering Cultural Safety and Language Justice Session description: Language is powerful. It helps us connect to each other and shapes our view of the world. We learn and absorb new concepts through communication with each other, for which language comprehen , ...Local Time:Sep 29 2026 |10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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- 6Las Americas Session #3- Supporting Choice and Autonomy: A Latine/x-Centered Approach to Tobacco Harm Reduction/ Las Américas Sesión #3- Fomentando la elección y la autonomía: un enfoque centrado en las personas latine/x para la reducción de daños del tabaco1:00 pm - 3:00 pmLas Americas Session # 3 – Supporting Choice and Autonomy: A Latine/x-Centered Approach to Tobacco Harm Reduction Session description: Tobacco harm reduction (THR) is an important yet often overlooked component of comprehensive harm reduction, substance use treatment, and recovery services. For Latine/x communiti , ...Local Time:Oct 06 2026 |10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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- 9Lighthouse Learning Webinar: Kink & Altered States of Mind12:00 pm - 2:00 pmLighthouse Learning Collective presents at webinar on queer harm reduction. This one hour webinar will review the fundamentals of kink and consent with a focus on how knik can interesect with substance use and chemsex, and how to promote health and wellness for people who are engaging in both. REGISTER HERE , ...Local Time:Oct 09 2026 |9:00 am - 11:00 am
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- 16Lighthouse Learning Webinar: Chemsex 10112:00 pm - 2:00 pmThis training examines specific health risks and concerns that may affect transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary (TGNCNB) individuals, with a focus on promoting health, safety, and well-being through evidence-based harm reduction practices. Participants will explore topics such as chemsex, non-medical silicon , ...Local Time:Oct 16 2026 |9:00 am - 11:00 am
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- 20Tobacco Harm Reduction Office Hours-Cultural Humility and THR (English)4:00 pm - 5:00 pmHi there! Thank you for showing interest in Tobacco Harm Reduction, we’re really happy you want to have in-depth conversations on this topic! This is a space to share ideas, questions on THR integration into services, or just to come in with curiosity and without judgement. Please fill out this form with your qu , ...Local Time:Oct 20 2026 |1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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- 26Hep C Patient Navigation PART 1 (In-person NYC)1:00 pm - 4:00 pmThis interactive half-day training (3 hours) is designed to provide front-line staff (patient navigators, case workers, test counselors and other prevention counselors), with a basic overview of Hepatitis C (Hep C), its impact in NYC, as well as an introduction to successful patient navigation strategies used by curren , ...Local Time:Oct 26 2026 |10:00 am - 1:00 pm
- 27Supervising PWUD (In-person NYC)10:00 am - 5:00 pmTraining Objectives: By the end of the training, you will be able to: Explain the importance of employing staff and peers who use drugs in a harm reduction program. Develop a well-structured supervision model that both supports and develops staff and peers who use drugs. Understand the importance of and identify , ...Local Time:Oct 27 2026 |7:00 am - 2:00 pmHoras de Oficina de Reducción de Daños de Tabaco (THR)4:00 pm - 5:00 pm¡Hola! ¡Gracias por mostrar interés en la reducción de daños de tabaco! ¡Nos alegra mucho que quieras tener conversaciones profundas sobre este tema! Este es un espacio para compartir ideas, preguntas sobre la integración de la reducción de daños del tabaco en los servicios, o simplemente para venir con curiosidad y si , ...Local Time:Oct 27 2026 |1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- 28Lighthouse Centering Care Conference Day 19:00 am - 5:00 pmLighthouse Learning Collective will be hosting our second annual Centering Care Conference in New York City! The Conference will be held on Wednesday October 28th and Thursday October 29th, 2026 at The LGBT Center, 208 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011 in Room 301. The conference is free and breakfast, lunch, and OM , ...Local Time:Oct 28 2026 |6:00 am - 2:00 pm
- 29Lighthouse Centering Care Conference Day 29:00 am - 5:00 pmLighthouse Learning Collective will be hosting our second annual Centering Care Conference in New York City! The Conference will be held on Wednesday October 28th and Thursday October 29th, 2026 at The LGBT Center, 208 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011 in Room 301. The conference is free and breakfast, lunch, and OM , ...Local Time:Oct 29 2026 |6:00 am - 2:00 pm
- 30Lighthouse Learning Webinar: PrEP/PEP 10112:00 pm - 2:00 pmThis training provides an introduction to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), a highly effective HIV prevention strategy that can significantly reduce the risk of acquiring HIV when taken as prescribed. Participants will learn the basics of how PrEP works, who may benefit from it, available medication options, and current , ...Local Time:Oct 30 2026 |9:00 am - 11:00 am
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October 2026
Oct 09 2026
Lighthouse Learning Webinar: Kink & Altered States of Mind
Oct 16 2026
Lighthouse Learning Webinar: Chemsex 101
Oct 20 2026
Tobacco Harm Reduction Office Hours-Cultural Humility and THR (English)
Oct 26 2026
Hep C Patient Navigation PART 1 (In-person NYC)
Oct 27 2026
Supervising PWUD (In-person NYC)
Oct 27 2026
Horas de Oficina de Reducción de Daños de Tabaco (THR)
Oct 28 2026
Lighthouse Centering Care Conference Day 1
Oct 29 2026
Lighthouse Centering Care Conference Day 2
Oct 30 2026
Lighthouse Learning Webinar: PrEP/PEP 101
November 2026
Nov 04 2026
Hep C Patient Navigation PART 2 (In-person NYC)
Nov 17 2026
Tobacco Harm Reduction Office Hours-Lessons Learned (English)
Nov 24 2026
Horas de Oficina de Reducción de Daños de Tabaco (THR)
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Harm reduction implementation guides
Sometimes you just need a blueprint to follow. We’ve condensed 30 years of learnings from leading and supporting harm reduction programs into these powerful guides. If you’re launching a syringe service or naloxone distribution project, check out these manuals for step-by-step implementation training.