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The Michigan Harm Reduction Summit Planning Committee along with the MDHHS Harm Reduction and Viral Hepatitis Prevention Unit would like to extend their appreciation and gratitude to all the 2025 summit speakers, attendees, exhibitors, and mobile units. Along with Event Garde, The Lansing Center and staff, the City of Lansing, DoubleTree by Hilton Lansing, Courtyard by Mariott - Downtown Lansing, and Hampton Inn East Lansing.
Summit CEs will be emailed out by MPHI several weeks following the close of the summit. Please check your spam folder to make sure communication from MPHI has not been marked as such.
Held: June 17-18, 2025
Lansing Center, Lansing, MI
This summit brings together all public health, public safety, nurses, physicians, social workers, community health workers, therapists, health educators, professionals working in the substance use space, as well as people with lived and living experience are encouraged to attend.
Continuing Education: Currently seeking continuing education for Nursing, Michigan Social Work, Michigan Addiction Professionals (MCBAP), Health Educators (CHES), and Michigan Community Health Workers (CHW).
Questions? Contact the MDHHS Harm Reduction and Viral Hepatitis Prevention Unit at MDHHS-SyringeAccess@Michigan.gov.
2024 Michigan Harm Reduction Summit - Would like to extend a 'Thank You!' to planning committee members, speakers, and attendees!!!
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services' 2024 Michigan Harm Reduction Summit was a one day in-person event held in Lansing on June 12th, 2024.
Target Audience: All public health, public safety, nurses, physicians, social workers, community health workers, therapists, health educators, people with lived and living experience, as well as professionals working in the substance use space are encouraged to attend.
Continuing Education: Currently seeking continuing education for Nursing, Michigan Social Work, Michigan Addiction Professionals (MCBAP), Health Educators (CHES), and Michigan Community Health Workers (CHW).
Post Summit Evaluation link - you must complete a post-summit evaluation to receive CE's. Please make sure you complete all required fields prior to submitting. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2024harmreductionsummit
2023 Michigan Harm Reduction Summit
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services was proud to welcome over 400 attendees both virtually and in-person at the Lansing Center May 16-17, 2023. Attendees had the opportunity to network and tour four syringe services program mobile units from the Grand Rapids Red Project, ACCESS, Chippewa County Health Department, and HARM:LESS.
Summit Recordings:
Welcome Smudging and Drum Ceremony
U.S. Housing System – Addressing Stigma and Harmful Policies
Maternal Harm Reduction
Presentation Slides:
HIV Dual Rapid Testing - Vishal Kinkhabwala and Bryana Fryczynski
Hepatitis C Rapid Testing - Zekiye Lukco, Teresa Juridico, Lauren Hodson
Decentering Whiteness: An Equity-Based Approach - Teresa Springer
Harm Reduction 101 - David Clayton and Amanda Scott
Integration of Harm Reduction into Michigan's Opioid Policy - Brandon Hool
Boundaries and Self Care - Teresa Springer
Trauma, Childhood Trauma, and Substance Use - Dr. Britne Amos
2022 Virtual Michigan Harm Reduction Summit
The 2022 Virtual Michigan Harm Reduction Summit was held from May 17 - May 19, 2022.
Summit Recordings:
PowerPoint Slides:
2021 Virtual Michigan Harm Reduction Summit
Supplemental Materials:
2020 Virtual Michigan Harm Reduction Summit
PowerPoint Slides and Supplemental Materials:
2019 Michigan Harm Reduction Summit
The MDHHS Viral Hepatitis Unit hosted its first-ever 2019 Michigan Harm Reduction Summit at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Lansing on April 2, 2019. Approximately 300 professionals from across Michigan gathered to learn strategies for curbing the opioid epidemic. There was a diverse representation of summit attendees, including state and local health departments, public safety, health centers and medical professionals, universities, community-based organizations, community mental health, and more.
Topics included syringe access 101, best practices for syringe services program implementation, harm reduction strategies for reducing the transmission of infectious diseases related to injection drug use, overdose prevention, naloxone distribution, and stigma and cultural competency.
Attendees had the opportunity to network and tour two syringe service program mobile units from the Grand Rapids Red Project and Chippewa County Health Department's Safe X-Change Program.
Summit Handouts
Presentations