Training, consulting, and technical assistance grounded in real-world practice.

Just Helping Out helps organizations move from good intentions to practical change.

Every engagement is shaped around your audience, setting, goals, and capacity, with a focus on tools your team can continue using after the session or project ends.

Training for Healthcare, Public Health, and Academic Teams

Interactive, evidence-informed sessions combining lived experience, frontline public health practice, and practical strategies for change.

Change the Words, Change the Outcomes

Explore how language shapes trust, engagement, and access to care. Participants learn to recognize stigmatizing language and replace it with communication that supports dignity, honesty, and connection.

Harm Reduction Foundations

An accessible introduction to harm reduction principles, common misconceptions, overdose prevention, and ways to apply harm reduction across healthcare, public health, treatment, and community settings.

Engaging People Who Use Drugs in Healthcare Settings

Practical guidance for reducing barriers, improving communication, responding to mistrust, and creating care environments people are more likely to return to.

Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Education

Training on overdose risk, recognition, naloxone response, emerging drug trends, and practical approaches to overdose prevention.

Custom Training and Education

Custom lectures, panels, workshops, curriculum consultation, and multi-session training series are available for universities, provider groups, conferences, and community organizations.

Training may be delivered virtually or in person.

Consulting and Technical Assistance

Practical support for organizations developing, strengthening, or expanding programs.

Support may include:

  • Program design and implementation

  • Policies, procedures, and SOPs

  • Workflows and operational systems

  • Outreach planning and community engagement

  • Reporting and documentation tools

  • Data collection and evaluation

  • Logic models and program frameworks

  • Training development and curriculum review

  • Sustainability and capacity-building strategy

  • Short-term or ongoing technical assistance

Lived-Experience and Community Strategy

A grounded perspective for organizations seeking to include lived experience meaningfully rather than symbolically.

Support may include:

  • Research and interview-guide review

  • Curriculum and training consultation

  • Stigma and plain-language review

  • Policy and procedure review

  • Advisory participation and facilitated discussion

  • Interpretation of findings through a lived-experience and harm reduction lens

How an Engagement Works

  1. Start with a conversation. We identify the challenge, audience, setting, and desired result.

  2. Receive a clear scope. You receive recommended support, deliverables, timeline, and cost.

  3. Complete the practical work. Training or consulting is tailored to your organization and grounded in real-world application.

  4. Leave with next steps. Your team receives usable tools, takeaways, or recommendations.

Pricing and Access

Projects are scoped according to goals, audience size, timeline, travel, and the level of support required.

Reduced-rate options are available for eligible rural, peer-led, and underfunded programs.