The Substance of Harm Reduction: A Framework for Youth Supportive Recovery

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dc.contributor.authorRhodes, Lewis
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-26T19:02:58Z
dc.date.available2025-11-26T19:02:58Z
dc.date.issued2026-11-26
dc.description.abstractThis master's research project develops the Harm Reduction Recovery for Youth (HRR-Y) framework, a structured practice framework integrating harm reduction and recovery-oriented care within a residential substance use program for youth aged 15 to 21 at Threshold Housing Society’s Supportive Recovery Program (SRP). Using qualitative data from staff interviews and daily logs, the project translates frontline staff expertise into a six-tier framework spanning relational residential care, recovery programming, behavioural interventions, medication protocols, substance substitution, and supervised safer use. Each tier of interventions plays an important role in supporting residents to manage their substance use. Positioned within the context of British Columbia’s ongoing toxic drug crisis and a contentious policy landscape, the framework advances youth substance use supports by combining harm reduction and recovery principles with therapeutic residential care. This framework could be further strengthened by incorporating youth voices in future research, additional iterative opportunities for staff-led refinement, and conducting outcome evaluations.
dc.description.reviewstatusUnreviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduate
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/22926
dc.publisherLewis Rhodes
dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
dc.subjectharm reduction
dc.subjectrecovery
dc.subjectsupportive recovery
dc.subjectaddiction
dc.subjectchild and youth care
dc.subject.departmentSchool of Child and Youth Care
dc.titleThe Substance of Harm Reduction: A Framework for Youth Supportive Recovery
dc.typeThesis

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