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Program Planning and Development | Trickster Tales and Harm Reduction | February 2, 2021

Date of Presentation: February 2, 2021

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Harm Reduction  

Keywords: #program planning  #trickster  #trickster stories  

In this presentation, Blue Valentine, CHW, Harm Reduction Specialist, discusses program planning and development and the key steps to giving life to a harm reduction program. Then, Dr. Danica Love Brown, Behavioral Health Director at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, shares the Trickster story, a scared, yet crafty being who manipulates and cheats others – fortunately, Trickster does not only cheat and manipulate others, he also helps teach important lessons.

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Dr. Danica Love Brown, Blue Valentine

Blue Valentine CHW, Harm Reduction Peer Specialist, currently works as part of a cross-program team of communicable disease, health navigation, and harm reduction staff at Benton County Health Department, as part of the End HIV Oregon Project. Her work includes street and camp outreach, rapid testing, syringe services, client advocacy, naloxone distribution, and HIV and STI education. She coordinates a regional harm reduction group for the Linn, Benton, Lincoln, and Siletz region that has a focus on overdose prevention and naloxone access. Blue began working in Harm Reduction in Los Angeles in 1992. She has extensive experience providing HIV/HCV/STI prevention and testing and syringe services to diverse communities, including people who use drugs, people experiencing homelessness, sex workers, LGBTQ+ individuals, and people living with HIV.

Danica Love Brown, MSW, PhD, is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, born and raised in Northern New Mexico. She currently is the Behavioral Health Manager at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board and has worked as a mental health and substance abuse counselor, social worker and youth advocate for over 20 years. She has a history of working in the areas of prevention, drug and alcohol/mental health treatment, community and restorative justice, and sexual health with Native American and adjudicated youth, families and women. She specializes in working with culturally and socioeconomically diverse populations and Tribal communities, utilizing a trauma informed care framework.

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Date added: February 2, 2021