Legal Advocates for Harm Reduction Convening

September 19th, 9am-5pm
Hyatt Regency Lake Washington at Seattle’s Southport
1053 Lake Washington Blvd N, Renton, Washington

Join the Legal Advocates for Harm Reduction for a special in-person convening following the conclusion of the 2025 Public Health Law Conference, September 16-18.  The convening is free and is designed to build relationships and a legal workforce better equipped to respond to legal issues facing harm reduction programs and their clients, staff, and allies.

While geared toward attorneys and other legal professionals, advocates and others with an interest in harm reduction are welcome to attend.  The convening will focus on skill building, strategic planning, and networking, as well as addressing misinformation as a driver of legal challenges to harm reduction. 

Legal Advocates for Harm Reduction is a group of attorneys, legal professionals, and other advocates committed to harm reductionist principles and using the law to help harm reduction programs and people who use drugs.

Questions? Contact adennis@networkforphl.org 

To join our Google Group, please visit: https://groups.google.com/g/legal-advocates-for-harm-reduction

Presented by the Network for Public Health Law’s Harm Reduction Legal Project in collaboration with the Advancing Harm Reduction Through the Law project (AHRLA); with funding provided in part by the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Vital Strategies, and The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation.

There is no cost to attend, but we ask that you register so we can plan accordingly.

Additionally, our colleagues from the Advancing Harm Reduction Through the Law (AHRLA) Project and the Changing the Narrative Network will present another free session titled: Changing the Narrative on Harm Reduction: A Learning and Strategy Session, on Thursday afternoon.  See more details below. 

While the sessions are interrelated, attendees must register for each session separately!

REGISTER FOR THE LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR HARM REDUCTION CONVENING, FRIDAY 9/19/2025

Following the conference and before the convening, please join our colleagues Advancing Harm Reduction Through the Law (AHRLA) Project and the Changing the Narrative Network for a session titled: Changing the Narrative on Harm Reduction: A Learning and Strategy Session

This session will explore how misinformation drives legal and policy threats to harm reduction, with the goal of building strategies to counter it. It will bring together legal, communications, and public health professionals, researchers, journalists, and advocates.  Featured speaker: Maia Szalavitz, the author of Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. 

Details:

Thursday, September 18, 2025
Hyatt Regency Lake Washington, Renton, Washington
12:00–4:00 PM, followed by social hour 4pm – 5pm. 
Register here.