BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Exware Solutions Inc.//ExSite v3.8//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ExSite-EvtCal-1067-@hsa-bc.ca DTSTAMP:20260519T185706 DTSTART:20260610T093000 DTEND:20260610T123000 SUMMARY:Webinar: Trauma Informed Practice: Foundations in Frontline Work DESCRIPTION:-- Webinar Description: --\n\nThis presentation reimagines tr auma-informed practice beyond the confines of institutional checklists a nd surface-level empathy. Rooted in harm reduction and abolitionist valu es, it explores how trauma is shaped by structural violence, systemic op pression, and carceral responses to care. Participants are invited to en gage critically with dominant frameworks such as ACEs, challenge medical ized and individualistic narratives, and embrace relational, non-carcera l, and dignity-based approaches to healing. This session centers the liv ed experience of those most impacted and offers pathways for practicing trauma-informed care that resist harm and foster true safety, accountabi lity, and collective liberation.\n\n-- Instructor: Heather Tunold --\n\n Instructor Bio: Heather is a harm reduction educator, drug policy strat egist, storyteller, and abolitionist organizer with lived and profession al experience at the intersections of substance use, trauma, homelessnes s and systemic violence. Heather brings twelve years of frontline experi ence in harm reduction. Most recently working in health authority leader ship, Heather has trained and socialized thousands of healthcare provide rs in critical harm reduction, prohibition, trauma-informed practice, an d transformative justice. Her work resists carceral logic and centers th e expertise of people most impacted by criminalization, colonization, an d structural harm. Heather believes in speaking truth to power and inten tionally speaks openly about her relationship with substances which has ebbed and flowed for twenty-one years. Despite professional and academi c training, Heather's lived and living experience profoundly shapes the way she shows up to do this work. She is committed to building systems r ooted in dignity, accountability, and care. Heather's heart lies in comm unity organizing, collective liberation and reimagining the status quo.  \n\n  END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR