Youth RISE

Connecting theory and practice: Best practices of the Full Spectrum Harm Reduction Survey Report 🌎 Youth RISE is developing the FSHR project, designed to contribute to a comprehensive understanding of its definition and principles, among drug policy reform and harm reduction advocates, policymakers, health and social care providers, educators, community leaders, researchers, and other relevant stakeholders, including young people. 🌱 The Best Full Spectrum Harm Reduction Practices survey is a Youth RISE initiative with the main objective of gathering insights on the innovations, challenges, and definitions of FHSR from harm reduction practitioners, peers, drug policy reform and harm reduction advocates, social workers, researchers, across different regions of the world. 👏 Would you like to read the complete report? Check the following link: https://lnkd.in/eH9CSkzW 📌

EVAWUD'24 | The time is finally here! We're delighted to share with you the activities held by Youth RISE's International Working Group Members, in the framework of the International Campaign for the Elimination of Violence Against Women👇 💜 In FCT Abuja, Lagos State, and Eket Akwa Ibom (Nigeria), Our team partnered with the National Human Rights Commission from Nigeria and engaged in a radio live discussion! They also developed the workshop "Men as Allies," in partnership with the Nigerian Police Force FCT Command. 💜 In Bogotá and Cali (Colombia), four talk-circles were given to women, as well as one interactive workshop on make-up and harm reduction. They also developed one cultural workshop where participants learned how to make silk-screens with messages! ** WHRIN and YouthRISE note that, by collaborating with groups of women and gender diverse people who use drugs and documenting peer led actions and services, the appropriate responses to these inequities and violations are clear. 👏

We are so grateful to the thousands of people around the world who made the 2024 #SupportDontPunish Global Day of Action a success. This powerful and growing movement took to the streets, social networks, parliaments and many more to bring our collective message to life in at least 292 cities of 84 countries —an incredible feat that we should all be proud of! 🌱 🌎 📌 Here's a summary of the activities held by Youth RISE's International Working Group Members: 👉 In Wakiso City, Teens Link Uganda convened an informal breakfast stakeholders' dialogue on Uganda’s new drug policy. 👉 In Annaba, Algeria, a practical workshop was designed for medical doctors that work in emergency settings to enhance their capacities in detecting overdose signs. 👉 In Toluca, Mexico, The 2nd "Peri-Feria sobre Consumo de Drogas, Salud Mental y Emociones" focused on Youth and Psychoactive Art, Consequences of the Prohibitionist Policy, Mental Health and Addictions, as well as Full Spectrum Harm Reduction.

With just a few days before the International Campaign for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 2024 ends, Women and Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN) and Youth RISE remind us it's about time to end all forms of violence against women and gender diverse people who use drugs! Women and gender diverse people who use drugs experience GBV at up to 25 times the rate experienced by women in the general public. This violence includes, (but is not limited to) extra judicial killing, capital punishment, forced and coerced sterilisation and abortion, rape, sexual harassment, loss of child custody, bashings, imprisonment for personal possession or use, penalisation for drug use in pregnancy, along with other types of gendered violations, stigma and discrimination. Expansion of harm reduction and inclusion of violence prevention and mitigation, and gender sensitive, affirming and age-appropriate support services are also critical. It is also noted that sexual and reproductive health is now promoted as an additional essential service that should be incorporated within the harm reduction suite of services for people who use drugs, and that best practice service delivery integrates comprehensive GBV services. Interested in learning more? Check the complete press release, available in bio!📌

¡MUJERES MEXICANAS Y CANNABIS! 🌱 Las mujeres cannábicas en América Latina impulsan un movimiento tan grande que logra que sus voces sean cada vez más escuchadas.  “Según el Estudio sobre el uso de Cannabis y sus derivados en población mexicana (Febrero 2024) se estimó que el uso de esta sustancia se duplicó en mujeres, pasando de 1.6% a 3.7% desde 2016, efecto que continúa a la alza” En este episodio conoceremos cómo viven algunas mujeres jóvenes el uso de la Cannabis en México. 📌 —————————- MEXICAN WOMEN AND CANNABIS! 🌱 Cannabis women in Latin America are driving a movement so big that their voices are increasingly heard. According to the Study on the use of Cannabis and its derivatives in Mexican population (February 2024) it was estimated that the use of this substance doubled in women, going from 1.6% to 3.7% since 2016, an effect that continues to rise. In this episode we will learn how some young women experience the use of Cannabis in Mexico. 📌

World AIDS Day brings together people from around the world to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and demonstrate international solidarity in the face of the pandemic. The day is an opportunity for public and private partners to spread awareness about the status of the pandemic and encourage progress in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care around the world. 🩸 "Girls and young women with disabilities often experience overwhelming barriers in accessing sexual and reproductive health and rights services, including disempowerment and forced sterilization, and discriminatory attitudes, norms and behaviours that render them invisible. [...] When young people, especially young women and girls, are empowered and educated, it creates healthier, more equal communities—essential for ending AIDS". ♿ Interested in learning more? Read the complete report here: https://lnkd.in/gdnjdKRC 📌 To #endAIDS, uphold the right to education! #WorldAIDSDay2024

CALLING HARM REDUCTION PRACTITIONERS FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH AND NORTH! 🌎 Participate in the survey “Best Full Spectrum Harm Reduction Practices from Harm Reduction Practitioners” and help us ensuring a more inclusive understanding of what harm reduction can achieve when viewed through the lens of a full spectrum approach.  At Youth RISE, we have conceptualized Full Spectrum Harm Reduction as an extended approach to harm reduction, that address not only the risks and harms related to drug use, it encompasses a broader list of interventions that seek to also reduce the structural, social and economic factors that exacerbate negative outcomes for people who use drugs (PWUD) and their communities. 📌 You can access the survey here: https://lnkd.in/eqyzaf4Z 📌 Check out the full statement here: https://lnkd.in/e3VFjaCs ---------------------------------------- ¡LLAMADO PROFESIONALES EN LA REDUCCIÓN DE DAÑOS DEL SUR Y NORTE GLOBAL! 🌎 Participa en la encuesta «Buenas prácticas de reducción de daños de espectro completo por activistas y profesionales de reducción de daños en el sur y norte global» y ayúdanos a garantizar una comprensión más inclusiva de lo que la reducción de daños puede lograr cuando se ve a través de la lente de un enfoque de espectro completo.  En Youth RISE, hemos conceptualizado la Reducción de Daños de Espectro Completo como un enfoque ampliado de la reducción de daños, que aborda no solo los riesgos y daños relacionados con el consumo de drogas, sino que abarca una lista más amplia de intervenciones que tratan de reducir también los factores estructurales, sociales y económicos que agravan los resultados negativos para las personas que consumen drogas (PWUD) y sus comunidades. 📌 Accede a la encuesta aquí: https://lnkd.in/eiM7W3vD 📌 Lee la declaración completa aquí: https://lnkd.in/e3VFjaCs

With the International Campaign for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 2024, the Women and Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN) and Youth RISE, call for an end to all forms of violence against women and gender diverse people who use drugs. The EVAWUD campaign highlights the need to end violence against women and gender diverse people who use drugs and improve drug policies from a feminist, human rights and harm reduction perspective. Women and gender diverse people who use drugs are subject to extreme levels and a wide range of violence due to patriarchal norms combined with punitive prohibition of some drugs. State-driven stigma, criminalization, harmful gender norms, and corruption drive substantive health and safety harms. These act as barriers for women and gender diverse people who use drugs accessing critical harm reduction and gender-based violence (GBV) services. Read the complete press release here: https://lnkd.in/eqX5p3wQ 📌

Evidence to Impact: Working Together to Drive Evidence-Based Drug Policies! 🍃 As an International Working Group Member at Youth Rise, João was invited as a civil society speaker, representing Youth Rise, Incarceration Nations Network and the International Coalition on Drug Policy Reform and Environmental Justice, to do a brief intervention speech at the UNODC-led event aimed at discussing the key findings of the 2024 World Drug Report. Barbosa said "Prohibition is a failed system tainted by racism, corruption of State agents, police brutality and mass incarceration that, over the past century, has failed to reduce the drug trade or drug use". Instead, it has created an unregulated and robust shadow economy where drug profits act as an investment bank for a range of extraction of natural resources and exploitation of vulnerable communities. Interested in learning more about his intervention? Check ouf the following link: https://lnkd.in/eZ-yUiBK 📌

Storytelling from a young person who uses drugs perspective! 📌 Join our Social Media Manager, Marialba Quesada, as she explains the main points and objectives of this wonderful project: "The stories that every young person who uses drugs has or anybody who is somehow familiar with this topic might have are extremely interesting and valuable. At Youth RISE, we believe in the need to capture these experiences and share them with the world" 🌎 "Through this creative process, we seek to document the experiences of our IWG members, exposing the reality of issues faced by our population such as availability and access to harm reduction and lack of social justice, and the changes we are fighting for" 🔥 #harmreduction #drugpolicy #youthrise #storytelling #advocacy #YPWUD