Subjects discussed include copy of The Statesmen artifact for the History Harvest; Oxford House; experience living in Oxford House; opening a new branch of Oxford House; misquotes in The Statesmen newspaper article about Julie and Oxford House; media portrayal of addiction; lack of support for substance abuse in Oregon; stigma; punitive treatment; harm reduction philosophies of love and respect; punitive treatment in Minnesota; creating her own organization using harm reduction philosophy; standards for women struggling with addiction; prostitution; methods of survival; finding a harm reduction community; growing marijuana; returning to school for a master’s degree; Resurrection Recovery and use of harm reduction techniques
Topics discussed include Street Works outreach program; serving homeless youth; working through the AIDS and Hepatitis C crisis; harm reduction tools; empowering individuals to treat themselves; meeting people where they are at; harm reduction training for youth workers across the state; Harm Reduction Coalition Conference; Harm Times Cafe community; using harm reduction techniques themselves; decline in harm reduction practice since the 1990s in Minnesota; learning to parent with harm reduction techniques; facing stigma as a harm reduction practitioner; people getting scared and tightening up during conservative government administration; prevalence of twelve-step mindset in Minnesota; sex work.