November 6th, 2025 – Centering Community-Led Responses to the Toxic Drug Crisis: Learnings from Phase I of FNHA’s Indigenizing Harm Reduction Study

This session will share qualitative findings from Phase I of the FNHA-led Indigenizing Harm Reduction Study, including wise practices, service gaps, and community-driven solutions. We’ll also preview our community-based research activities as a part of Phase II. We aim to highlight the strengths of First Nations-led responses to the toxic drug crisis that center culture and connection for our relatives who use substances.


We would like to reiterate that everyone is welcome to our UBCLC sessions.

Our events aim to embody a safe space for everyone of all different backgrounds to have their opinions and voices equally heard.

Date: Thursday, November 6th, 2025 (PST)
Time: 10 a.m. to 11:30 am
Where: Free online via Zoom!
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Registration: required to participate; We would strongly recommend signing up for this event if you are interested even if you can’t make the date and time so we can have your information to send you the video link after the webinar session


About the Presenters:

   

Alya Govorchin (MSc) is a settler of English and Croatian ancestry living on the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She is a qualitative researcher with a background in harm reduction and Indigenous health research and works as a Research Analyst at FNHA.

 

Ashley Simpson (MPH) is of Wet’suwet’en, Scottish, and English ancestry and a grateful guest on unceded, ancestral Coast Salish territories. She is a qualitative health researcher with a background in Indigenous community-based research and serves as Project Director of Indigenous Harm Reduction Research at FNHA.

 

Amiti Mehta (MPH) is a settler of Punjabi ancestry living on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Semiahmoo people. She is a mixed methods researcher with a background in public health, harm reduction, drug policy reform and works as a Senior Research Coordinator at FNHA.

 


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