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Webinar Description: 

This webinar reimagines trauma-informed practice beyond the confines of institutional checklists and surface-level empathy. Rooted in harm reduction and abolitionist values, it explores how trauma is shaped by structural violence, systemic oppression, and carceral responses to care.

Participants are invited to engage critically with dominant frameworks such as ACEs, challenge medicalized and individualistic narratives, and embrace relational, non-carceral, and dignity-based approaches to healing. This session centers the lived experience of those most impacted and offers pathways for practicing trauma-informed care that resist harm and foster true safety, accountability, and collective liberation.

Instructor: Heather Tunold

Bio: 

Heather is a harm reduction educator, drug policy strategist, storyteller, and abolitionist organizer with lived and professional experience at the intersections of substance use, trauma, homelessness and systemic violence. Heather brings twelve years of frontline experience in harm reduction. Most recently working in health authority leadership, Heather has trained and socialized thousands of healthcare providers in critical harm reduction, prohibition, trauma-informed practice, and transformative justice. Her work resists carceral logic and centers the expertise of people most impacted by criminalization, colonization, and structural harm. Heather believes in speaking truth to power and intentionally speaks openly about her relationship with substances which has ebbed and flowed for twenty-one years. Despite professional and academic training, Heather's lived and living experience profoundly shapes the way she shows up to do this work. She is committed to building systems rooted in dignity, accountability, and care. Heather's heart lies in community organizing, collective liberation and reimagining the status quo.