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
Start with a conversation. We identify the challenge, audience, setting, and desired result.
Receive a clear scope. You receive recommended support, deliverables, timeline, and cost.
Complete the practical work. Training or consulting is tailored to your organization and grounded in real-world application.
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.