Rebuild trust. Improve engagement. Change outcomes.
Just Helping Out helps healthcare, university, public health, and community teams improve how they engage people who use drugs and people living with substance use disorder through practical training, lived-experience strategy, and implementation support.
Training and consulting revenue helps sustain reduced-rate support for rural and underfunded community programs.
Training
Interactive workshops and lectures for healthcare, public health, academic, treatment, and community settings. Training combines lived experience, frontline practice, and concrete strategies teams can use immediately.
Consulting + Technical Assistance
Hands-on support for program design, implementation, policies, SOPs, workflows, outreach, reporting, evaluation, and sustainability.
Lived-Experience + Community Strategy
Review and guidance for research teams, curriculum developers, health systems, and organizations seeking a more person-centered and practical approach.
Real-World Expertise, Not Theory Alone
Just Helping Out was founded by Melinda Cooper, an addiction consultant, harm reduction program leader, trainer, and lived-experience consultant. Her work bridges direct service, program operations, research, and provider education. She helps organizations recognize where systems create barriers and turn those insights into practical changes.
A Business Model Built Around Community Care
Larger training and consulting contracts help make reduced-rate support available to rural and underfunded programs. That means institutional investment does more than strengthen one organization. It helps extend practical support to communities that are too often expected to do more with less.
What Is Your Team Trying to Change?
Tell us where communication, policy, or program practice is getting in the way. We will help you identify a practical next step.