The Family & Friends Meeting of Harm Reduction Works (HRW)
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LGLC provides forward-looking training, curriculum development, and general consulting services across substance use disciplines.
Recent LGLC curriculum development projects include:
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NH Governor's Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative: Development of the nation's first state-funded workplace wellness training promoting recovery-friendly policy, practices, and culture.
Development of business trainings aimed at empowering employers to implement recovery friendly practices within the workplace and provide support for employees in recovery or those impacted by substance use disorder (SUD).
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The Art & Science of Peer-Assisted Recovery: Development of a 30-hour fundamentals training for peer recovery support services providers on behalf of SOS Recovery Community Organization. (A comparable alternative to CCAR's Recovery Coach Academy.)
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Our Stories Have Power: Recovery Community Messaging Training: Revision & development of the iconic recovery messaging training from Faces & Voices of Recovery.
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Harm Reduction 101 For Substance Use Professionals: Developed and managed by LGLC, this one-day interactive training explores harm reduction concepts and principles alongside more familiar healthcare principles participants of all backgrounds and professions.
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Recovery Coaching a Harm Reduction Pathway© Developed and managed by LGLC, this 18-hour interactive training orients peer recovery support services providers to harm reduction concepts and principles.
Photo Credit: NH Charitable Foundation
Dean LeMire is owner and principal at LGLC. In his various roles across the substance use disorder continuum of care Dean has facilitated expansion of improved, person-centered, and community-driven service delivery. In New Hampshire, Dean was instrumental in forming a statewide network of Recovery Community Organizations, including SOS RCO as its first staff member. He helped to form a statewide network of harm reduction service programs as a founding board member of the New Hampshire Harm Reduction Coalition and as co-founder of Hand Up Health Services, a multi-county syringe services program. In Texas, he co-founded the Texas Harm Reduction Alliance and served as Operations Director for its first direct services program, Austin Overdose Prevention Services. Dean has trained and supervised peer recovery support specialists since 2016 and co-developed Recovery Coaching a Harm Reduction Pathway© with Jim Wuelfing in 2019.
Dean is a person in recovery from substance use disorders and Major Depressive Disorder.