Nothing About Us Without Us

9:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m., Cambridge Centre for the Arts - Toyota Auditorium, 60 Dickson Street

1:30-4:30 p.m., KW Counselling-Room 217, 480 Charles Street East

Forum + Film

This workshop will highlight the rationale and the benefits of meaningful involvement of people who use drugs in all aspects of policies and programs that respond to HIV, HCV, and illegal drug use while addressing issues of facilitating drug user participation into community-based initiatives, the benefits of such participation for users themselves, and the critical value which their participation brings to the development of appropriate and relevant programs. Organized groups of people who use illicit drugs and other inclusive approaches will be highlighted. Current developments in and challenges related to, user-driven initiatives will be discussed. A facilitated discussion will follow.

Film:  The Brickyard: Home of All The Junkies (U.S.A., 2007, 24 min)
This film explores the lives of homeless heroin and crack users, sex workers, and drug dealers who inhabit a semi-concealed public space on Chicago's west side. This film emerges from the director's three-year ethnographic immersion in The Brickyard, which involved long-term periods of living and conducting harm reduction outreach among the people who appear in the film.

For more information, visit http://www.inthemindseye.ca/events/2007/1114.htm.