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!

Become a Non-Carceral Collaborator Today!

Non-Carceral Collaborators are liberatory practitioners dedicated to moving beyond the “don’t call 911” value and into an ongoing commitment of uplifting the self-expertise of someone who is in crisis. Join our next cohort if you are prepared to dig deeper, question your understanding and practice, dialogue with coaches and colleagues, resist the mental health industrial complex, and equip yourselves and your clients with the skills to reduce harm in personally relevant ways. **For payment plan requests, please email [email protected] directly.

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Basics Course

20 hours of self-guided content: $400

  • Full Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Workbook

  • Instructor videos, reinforcing primary concepts

  • Quizzes, challenges, and complexity check ins

  • Example case studies

  • Complete in up to 8 weeks! Includes verification of course hours upon successful completion

Fortify your non-carceral support practice!

Don’t delay! Begin cementing your non-carceral essentials.

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Advanced Course

30 hours of self-guided content, group coaching, and 6-hour summit: $750

  • Everything included in the Basic Course

  • 6-hour live Non-Carceral Harm Reduction summit: ask the tougher questions, gain nuanced perspectives, implement your skills practice

  • 2 Non-Carceral Collaborator group coaching sessions: deepen collaborator dialogue

  • 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

  • Everything included in the Advanced Course

  • 6 total Non-Carceral Collaborator group coaching sessions: submit your own case scenarios for priority access and personalized development; expand your collaborator network

  • Expand your skills practice in each module; access specialized examples and expert feedback tailored to your unique strengths and pitfalls.

  • 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

  • Everything included in the Comprehensive Course

  • 12 total Non-Carceral Collaborator group coaching sessions; gain VIP access, lead collaborative discussions, cement your network, gain personalized leadership support

  • 6 individual coaching sessions: immerse yourself in your personalized program, unique to your skills and growth objectives

  • Individualized exercise sets and personalized feedback aimed at accelerating your non-carceral practice

  • Complete in up to 12 months! Certificate of Completion

Your Instructor

Ryder Fox

Lead Educator

Ryder Fox is the Founder and CEO of Stronger U and the President and Founder of THRIVE Lifeline. They are a nonbinary, queer, neurodivergent person living with multiple chronic illnesses. They also are a cult and violence survivor living with cPTSD and have navigated muteness, dissociative episodes, and chronic suicidality throughout their life. Ryder began working professionally with vulnerable populations in the late 1990s and founded Stronger U in 2007. They are passionate about supporting the too-oft dismissed needs of multiply marginalized people. Ryder has supported thousands of clients worldwide, which work propelled their founding of THRIVE Lifeline and educating hundreds of practitioners through a non-carceral lens that humanizes and uplifts supportees' expertise.