"Baby You're a Firework"
"Its my life"
Just Keep Swimming
Breakfast at Abode's
100

What accent did the woman in the strengths-based video have?

English

100

Name one type of everyday harm reduction tools people use that were identified in the 101 video

Sunscreen

Seatbelts

Parachutes

Hardhats

Not drinking and driving

100

What is the FIRST step identified in the video that help heal or prevent a crisis?

Ascertain Safety:

Before you do anything, know the answers to the following questions:

  • Has the person started to use maladaptive coping strategies, attempts at escapism that are exacerbating the problem?
  • Do they need physical medical help before any psychological intervention?
  • Is there someone they have access to 24/7? Someone they can call if they need to or someone who can check on them?
  • Are they engaging in self-harm? This might be alcohol or drug use, out-of-character promiscuity or refusal to get out of bed or leave the safety of one room.
  • Are they a threat to someone else? Have they threatened suicide?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then you may need to enlist the help of other professionals. It’s handy to have a list of numbers and contacts – a community of professionals that you can call on if need be.

We’ve all heard the proverb that it takes a ‘village’ to raise a child – and sometimes it can take that whole village to help one community member in crisis.

100

What is the name of Abode's CEO?

Louis Chicoine

200
True or False: 

It is the sole responsibility of the provider to identify strengths for their clients

False: Strengths-based practice is a collaborative process between the person supported by services and those supporting them, allowing them to work together to determine an outcome that draws on the person’s strengths and assets.

200

Name one kind of prevention effort identified as not being effective in the Harm Reduction 101 video

1. Prison

2. Abstinence Program

3. Yelling

4. Anti-drig PSA

5. War on Drugs

200

The best crisis is the one _____ because we saw it coming and did something about it

Averted

200

When do you have to submit your timesheet

At the end of every Friday and at the end of each pay period (15th and last day of the month)

300

Using a strengths based approach means identifying what is _____ , and not what is _____

Strong/Wrong

300

Name one program/intervention that aids harm reduction efforts.

1. Needle/syringe program

2. Opioid substitution 

3. HIV/AIDS testing and counseling

4. Antiretroviral Therapy

5. Condom Programs

6. Sexual and Reproductive health services

7. Targeted information, education, and communication

8. Hepatitis prevention, care, treatment

9. Opioid overdose management

10. Psychosocial support

11. Livelihood development programs

300

What are the two broad types of crisis described in the crisis response video

energized and de-energized

Energized=can involve extreme restlessness, inability to concentrate, pacing, wringing hands, sleeplessness, obsessionality, impulsivity, risk taking. Associated with higher suicide risk

De-energized=when a person feels so trapped and helpless, or sometimes exhausted from an energized crisis, that they can’t bring themselves to do anything at all. Their life grinds to a halt. They may stop eating, washing and even talking.In this state people feel sapped of energy, almost paralysed. They lose all motivation, self-confidence and interest as feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness take over.

300

What is Abode's mission (TWO WORDS)

Ending Homelessness

400

The three key elements (identified in strengths-based video)for a strengths based approach

1. Holistic

2. Person-centered

3. Outcomes- focused

400

Harm reduction approach recognizes that many factors affect someone's vulnerability to/capacity for dealing with substance-related harm. 

Name one

socioeconomic status

race

mental health experience/history

Lack of community/resources

ECT.


400

The common element to both kinds of crisis symptomatology (energized/de-energized)

Stress buildup

Stress happens when we are not meeting our basic primal emotional needs, and it builds more and more as we worry about not meeting those needs. Stress is merely a signal of ‘thirst’ or ‘hunger’ on the emotional level.

Often a person veering toward crisis will not have strong enough self-objectivity (because of the distorting effects of high emotion) to realize they need a break, to make the effort to talk to someone about what they’re going through, or to identify what needs to happen to help them out of the crisis.

400

What is your boss' boss' boss name?

Katie Fantin

500

Identify one of the tools described in the Strengths- based video that help people identify their strengths

Strengths mapping, Asking the right questions, recovery model, and motivational interviewing. 


500

What are the different ways that harm reduction is executed on a macro/micro level. 

Harm reduction consists of

policies

programs

practices 

500

Name and elaborate on the any of the steps of crisis management described in the video

1. Establish Safety

2. Calm your client: 

3. Engage Resources

4. Ascertain their beliefs during the crisis

5. Help them find hope through an action plan

500

What year was Abode founded?

1989

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