Explore Our Harm Reduction Workshop.
"Walk With Me" is an immersive, trauma-informed workshop specifically created for organizations, northern-remote communities, frontline emergency responders, and community groups. We move to promoting life, dignity, and survival.
Ashley Jellema (left) and Summer Wawia (right).
Module 1: Reimagining Care & Life Promotion Shifting the focus from substance use to actively prioritizing survival, connection, and the value of human life.
Module 2: Historical Context Understanding the structural roots of trauma—through lived experience storytelling.
Module 3: Western Knowledge Meets Traditional Knowledge Bridging the gap. Understand the mechanics of harm reduction supplies and overdose reversal.
Module 4: The Tactical "DOs and DONTs" of Reducing Stigma Hands-on communication strategies. Learn exactly what phrases create stigma, person-first language. Summer will talk about words shared with her while being homeless
Module 5: Emergency Literacy Navigating challenges with calm and professional confidence, including practical education on the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act and knowing when and how to mobilize emergency responses safely.
Module 6: Self-Care To review and understand the importance of self-care and why it helps to protect us from burn-out and compassion fatigue.
Certificate of Completion - Learning through lived experience.
Real experience, real impact.
Walk With Summer
through her life story. From childhood to adulthood, homeless to homeowner, substance user to healing journey. Summer shares her most vulnerable, challenging and amazing moments in her healing journey in hopes of helping people build empathy for those that have had a challenging journey.