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 Educational 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.

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Basic Course

20 hours of self-guided content

  • 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

Advanced Course

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

  • 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

  • Everything included in the Advanced Course

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

  • Expand your skills practice in each module; access instructor examples and rationale behind navigating complex case studies

  • Complete in up to 6 months! Includes verification of course hours upon successful completion

Full Educational Program

90 hours of self-guided content, 6-hour summit, expanded skills practice, group and individual coaching

  • Everything included in the Comprehensive Course

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

  • 6 individual coaching sessions: gain a personalized program, unique to your skills and growth objectives

  • Individualized exercise sets and personalized feedback aimed at your own 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. Their work led them to leading grassroots crisis teams, founding THRIVE Lifeline, and training hundreds of practitioners through a non-carceral lens that humanizes and uplifts supportees' expertise.