Are you healing or harming?
Gain the confidence to act consensually and promote agency during crises, complex trauma, and other nuanced support situations within multiply marginalized communities.
Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Training Options
Choose from our Full Certificate Program, or 3 smaller course options, designed to meet your unique educational goals!
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Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Certificate Program
CourseCertificate program adds individual coaching and mentorship to skills practice, group coaching, 6-hour summit, and self-guided content.
$2,250
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Comprehensive Course, Non-Carceral Harm Reduction
Course45 hours of self-guided content, group coaching, skills practice and coaching feedback, and 6-hour summit
$1,200
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Advanced Course, Non-Carceral Harm Reduction
Course30 hours of self-guided content, group coaching, and 6-hour summit.
$750
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Basics Course, Non-Carceral Harm Reduction
Course20 hours of self-guided content
$400
Basics Course
20 hours of self-guided content: $400
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Full Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Workbook
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Instructor videos, reinforcing primary concepts
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Quizzes, challenges, and complexity check ins
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Example case studies
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Complete in up to 8 weeks! Includes verification of course hours upon successful completion
Advanced Course
30 hours of self-guided content, group coaching, and 6-hour summit: $750
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Everything included in the Basic Course
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6-hour live Non-Carceral Harm Reduction summit: ask the tougher questions, gain nuanced perspectives, implement your skills practice
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2 Non-Carceral Collaborator group coaching sessions: deepen collaborator dialogue
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Complete in up to 12 weeks! Includes verification of course hours upon successful completion
Comprehensive Course
45 hours of self-guided content, group coaching sessions, 6-hour summit, and expanded skills practice: $1200
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Everything included in the Advanced Course
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6 total Non-Carceral Collaborator group coaching sessions: submit your own case scenarios for priority access and personalized development; expand your collaborator network
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Expand your skills practice in each module; access specialized examples and expert feedback tailored to your unique strengths and pitfalls.
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Complete in up to 6 months! Includes verification of course hours upon successful completion
Full Certificate Program
Boosted educational program, prioritizing individual coaching and mentorship to fortify your skills practice in addition to 90 hours of self-guided content, 6-hour summit, and group coaching: $2250
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Everything included in the Comprehensive Course
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12 total Non-Carceral Collaborator group coaching sessions; gain VIP access, lead collaborative discussions, cement your network, gain personalized leadership support
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6 individual coaching sessions: immerse yourself in your personalized program, unique to your skills and growth objectives
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Individualized exercise sets and personalized feedback aimed at accelerating your non-carceral practice
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Complete in up to 12 months! Certificate of Completion
Your Instructor
Ryder Fox
Lead Educator
[email protected]
Ryder Fox is the Founder and CEO of Stronger U and the Founder and President of THRIVE Lifeline. They are a trauma-informed wellness coach, educator, systems strategist, and curriculum developer with nearly 30 years of experience supporting people navigating chronic illness, disability, trauma, and other complex life experiences.
Over the course of their career, Ryder has logged more than 60,000 coaching hours, mentored hundreds of practitioners, and educated thousands of professionals internationally through courses, conferences, and organizational partnerships. They specialize in helping practitioners develop sustainable, relationship-centered approaches that support clients through chronic health conditions, trauma histories, periods of crisis, and the realities of long-term care.
Since founding Stronger U in 2007, Ryder has had the privilege of supporting some clients continuously for nearly two decades—walking alongside them through flare cycles, evolving diagnoses, disability progression, grief, recovery, and life's many uncertainties. Their work emphasizes client autonomy, trauma-informed care, ethical practice, and building helping relationships that remain effective over time.
In 2020, Ryder founded THRIVE Lifeline, a nonprofit dedicated to identity-affirming, non-carceral crisis intervention and peer support for multiply marginalized communities. Through THRIVE, they have helped develop innovative educational programs that train practitioners to engage in more humane, autonomy-supportive conversations around suicide, crisis, and complex mental health experiences.
Ryder also brings lived experience as a neurodivergent, nonbinary person living with chronic physical and mental health conditions. Their teaching is grounded in the belief that professional expertise and lived experience can work together to create more compassionate, ethical, and effective care. Across every course they teach, Ryder's goal is to help professionals become more thoughtful, confident, and deeply human in the relationships they build with those they serve.
Over the course of their career, Ryder has logged more than 60,000 coaching hours, mentored hundreds of practitioners, and educated thousands of professionals internationally through courses, conferences, and organizational partnerships. They specialize in helping practitioners develop sustainable, relationship-centered approaches that support clients through chronic health conditions, trauma histories, periods of crisis, and the realities of long-term care.
Since founding Stronger U in 2007, Ryder has had the privilege of supporting some clients continuously for nearly two decades—walking alongside them through flare cycles, evolving diagnoses, disability progression, grief, recovery, and life's many uncertainties. Their work emphasizes client autonomy, trauma-informed care, ethical practice, and building helping relationships that remain effective over time.
In 2020, Ryder founded THRIVE Lifeline, a nonprofit dedicated to identity-affirming, non-carceral crisis intervention and peer support for multiply marginalized communities. Through THRIVE, they have helped develop innovative educational programs that train practitioners to engage in more humane, autonomy-supportive conversations around suicide, crisis, and complex mental health experiences.
Ryder also brings lived experience as a neurodivergent, nonbinary person living with chronic physical and mental health conditions. Their teaching is grounded in the belief that professional expertise and lived experience can work together to create more compassionate, ethical, and effective care. Across every course they teach, Ryder's goal is to help professionals become more thoughtful, confident, and deeply human in the relationships they build with those they serve.