James Kerr, BS, CRC, AHS, CSS, SUN

James draws from lived, academic, and professional experience. His approach to harm reduction is trauma invested, strengths based, and person centered. James hopes to provide context that can be lost in translation between participants and hospital staff by meeting each group where they are at and creating rapport. James hopes to enhance the autonomy of participants as they navigate stigma, alienation, institutionalization, and complex systems of bureaucracy in order to receive care. James has worked as a rape-crisis counselor, mobile-crisis counselor, and as a case manager in the epicenter of Philadelphia’s opioid epidemic. James is an aspiring clinical social worker that utilizes a humanistic approach to serve participants and a person in environment to (PIE) perspective to discern their strengths, positionality, and assist them in overcoming intersecting social determinants that often stifle access to harm reduction and recovery resources.