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Greater Vancouver Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness - Letter to organizations

Publication type: 
Letter / Correspondence
Agency: 
Greater Vancouver Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness
Date: 
2001-05-22
Pages: 
4
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Letter from the Greater Vancouver Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness to organizations and Boards announcing the Regional Homelessness Plan for Greater Vancouver (Mach 2001). Originally a copy of the Plan was attached to this letter, as was Information Bulletin Number 3 written by the Steering committee. The letter outlines the history of the development of the Steering Committee, its structure and activities. The letter requests that organizations and Boards review the Plan and pass motions to endorse it if they are satisfied. A membership list for the Steering Committee is attached.
Keywords: 
Greater Vancouver Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness; housing; homelessness; Vancouver; GVRD; Greater Vancouver Regional District; housing policy

Hepatitis C Information Sheets

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Street Connections
Pages: 
5
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
A set of five fact sheets about Hepatitis C as it affects injection drug users (IDU) produced by a mobile outreach organization in Winnipeg (Street Connections). The first sheet gives facts about types of Hep C and how the virus works in the body. The second describes safe ways to get tattoos and the risks of homemade and prison tattoos. The third sheet lists myths and facts about the virus, such as the myth that there is no cure and the fact that it can be transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy. The fourth sheet provides pictures and descriptions of safe and unsafe injection practices, and the fifth describes the risks associated with injecting into muscles and skin popping (injecting under skin).
Keywords: 
Street Connections; Winnipeg; Manitoba; injection drug users; IDU; drugs; hepatitis C; Hep C; HCV; safe injection site; harm reduction; outreach; community-based organizations; community-based services

Why Transformative Justice?

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Rittenhouse - A New Vision
Date: 
1999-01
Pages: 
12
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
A pamphlet discussing the merits of transformative justice as an approach to crime, and the downfalls of retributive and restorative justice. The current system of retributive justice fractures families, communities and lives. Restorative justice reinforces structural inequalities. It aims to 'restore' conditions of communities and families after a crime, when it is often those conditions that facilitated or fuelled the crime in the first place. Transformative justice seeks to transform the conditions of injustice that underlie crime. The process engages the entire community in rooting out and addressing the social causes of crime.
Keywords: 
Rittenhouse - A New Vision; justice; justice system; crime; criminal justice system; retributive justice; restorative justice; transformative justice

Aboriginal People and HIV/AIDS: Legal Issues- Info Sheet 6 HEALTH CARE

Publication type: 
Training / Education Manual
Agency: 
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)
Series: 
Sheet 6
Date: 
1999-03
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Sheet 6 in a series of 9 info sheets on issues facing Aboriginal people with HIV/AIDS. Sheet 6 presents health care issues and available services for Aboriginal people with HIV/AIDS. Aboriginal people have the highest level of poor health in Canada due to poverty, racism, and denigration of cultural traditions. The problems of regionalization and health transfer funding is explained briefly.
Keywords: 
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network; Aboriginal health; HIV testing; harm reduction; discrimination; confidentiality; epidemiology; suicide; racism; colonialism; holistic; socioeconomic; STD; incarceration

Aboriginal People and HIV/AIDS: Legal Issues- Info Sheet 7 CONFIDENTIALITY

Publication type: 
Training / Education Manual
Agency: 
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)
Series: 
Sheet 7
Date: 
1999-03
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Sheet 7 in a series of 9 info sheets on issues facing Aboriginal people with HIV/AIDS. Sheet 7 presents confidentiality and it's legal importance for health practitioners and community workers. The importance of ratifying confidentiality policies for local Aboriginal governments and the impact of breaching confidentiality in rural settings.
Keywords: 
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network; Aboriginal health; HIV testing; harm reduction; discrimination; confidentiality; epidemiology; suicide; racism; colonialism; holistic; socioeconomic; STD; incarceration

Aboriginal People and HIV/AIDS: Legal Issues- Info Sheet 8 HIV TESTING

Publication type: 
Training / Education Manual
Agency: 
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)
Series: 
Sheet 8
Date: 
1999-03
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Sheet 8 in a series of 9 info sheets on issues facing Aboriginal people with HIV/AIDS. Sheet 8 presents HIV testing, the issues, the importance and research data ownership by Aboriginal people. Culturally appropriate pre and post-test counselling and testing confidentiality in smaller communities are not being provided at present.
Keywords: 
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network; Aboriginal health; HIV testing; harm reduction; discrimination; confidentiality; epidemiology; suicide; racism; colonialism; holistic; socioeconomic; STD; incarceration

Aboriginal People and HIV/AIDS: Legal Issues- Info Sheet 9 ACCESS TO HIV TESTING

Publication type: 
Training / Education Manual
Agency: 
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)
Series: 
Sheet 9
Date: 
1999-03
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Sheet 9 in a series of 9 info sheets on issues facing Aboriginal people with HIV/AIDS. Sheet 9 presents access to HIV testing on and off reserve, with explanations of anonymous, non-nominal, nominal and barriers to testing. Wait times for test results are also a concern in smaller remote communities.
Keywords: 
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network; Aboriginal health; HIV testing; harm reduction; discrimination; confidentiality; epidemiology; suicide; racism; colonialism; holistic; socioeconomic; STD; incarceration

To All Who Are Excellent: (The Rice Wine Issue: More Than Just Confetti)

Publication type: 
Position Paper
Agency: 
University of Victoria Nursing Program N350 Health Promotion and Community Development Practice: Ins
Date: 
2000-08-07
Pages: 
26
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
A UVIC Nursing student's final paper for Health Promotion and Community Development. The subject is rice alcohol or rice wine and the deadly effects on the DTES residents who use it. She includes a thank-you letter to all the contributors to her paper and a brief excerpt from the VIDUS Study on injection drug users who use rice wine.
Keywords: 
University of Victoria; rice wine; rice alcohol; WATARI; DTES; detox; cirrhosis; VIDUS; harm reduction; alcoholism; program proposal; risk behaviour; Aboriginal; Latinos

Detox Rehabilitation Centre handout

Publication type: 
Web Page / Electronic Reproduction
Pages: 
14
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
A handout compiled from various web sources on different holistic/natural methods to support detoxification and withdrawal from alcohol/drugs.
Keywords: 
detox; liver; hepatitis; nutrition; alcoholism; holistic; alternative therapy; health promotion

Abstract submission and registration information brochure: International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm 2004- Melbourne Australia

Publication type: 
Conference / Meeting Proceedings
Agency: 
International Harm Reduction Association
Date: 
2004-04-20
Pages: 
18
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Conference forms for the 15th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related harm in Melbourne Australia- 2004. Abstract, registration, delegate and sponsor forms only with a brief information sheet on the purpose of the conference.
Keywords: 
harm reduction; IDU; injection drug use; safe injection site; drug law reform; risk behaviour; activism

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