- 206 - 83 Sherbrook St Winnipeg MB
- hello@mhrn.ca
- 204-783-6184
The Manitoba Harm Reduction Network (MHRN) and all of our sites are located on Indigenous land—Anishinaabe, Ininew, Anish-Ininew, Dene, and Dakota—and in the homeland of the Métis Nation. Our central office is in Treaty 1, and we have been invited to work in Treaty 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 territories. As a non-Indigenous organization, we are committed to reconciliation and to integrating the TRC Calls to Action into our work.
We focus on changing systems and policies that create harm for people who use drugs, recognizing the historic harms of drug policy and criminalization. Harm reduction is relationship-based and community-driven, and uses practical strategies to keep people safer around activities that carry risk (e.g., sex and drug use).
Refusing to accept things as they are, the MHRN pushes against the status quo to build a more just world.
Committed to disrupting harmful and racist systems, the MHRN envisions a province that loves and respects people who use drugs.
Toward this end, the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network works to shift the way people think and talk about sex and drugs – focusing on the benefits of sex and substance use and safety.
Harm Reduction is a best practice model for providing services in health care and social service programming for people who use substances and are impacted by colonial and structural violence.
Our approach to harm reduction focuses on how systems create and exacerbate harms to people who use drugs and other oppressed groups, often by design and with intent.
The Brandon Safer Connections Network is a network of over 30 organizations/individuals that work to address STBBIs (sexually transmitted/blood borne infections) and Harm Reduction through advocacy, education, prevention, and address barriers to accessing supports
The Northwest Interlake Harm Reduction Network is a network of different service providers and community based organizations. We meet monthly to work towards advocacy and harm reduction around STBBI’s and substance use. Through community based events, we work to reduce stigma, spread awareness, share and exchange knowledge and resources and work towards advocacy.
Flin Flon and northern Manitoba have a long history in harm reduction. Our network dates back to a committee originally formed in 1992, with the Play It Safer Network, a partnership between Flin Flon and The Pas, being formed ten years later.. In 2012 our network was adopted by Manitoba Harm Reduction, and underwent one more change when The Pas and Flin Flon separated to have two Play It Safer Networks.
The Portage la Prairie Harm Reduction Network has been operating since 2019 with representatives from our regional health authority, local tribal council, and representatives from local community based organizations involved.
