Data Source 3: Documents

The following documents were used to shed additional light on our research:

• UpWords, the newsletter produced by a collective or volunteers from the Stimulant Discussion Group organized by The Lifeskills Centre, Issue #1, Volume #1 (September 2005) and Issue #2, Volume #2 (July 2006).
• Minutes from meetings of the UpWords editorial committee. The UpWords group members are both learners (as new journalists) and teachers (educating other drug-users and the broader community with their newsletter).
• The WISH Newsletter (re-named WISHful Thinking) from 2005-2007

We used these methods to investigate our three research questions:

1. What is Harm Reduction and how does it affect Downtown Eastside residents who engage in high-risk behaviours?
2. How does Harm Reduction link to learning?
3. How can Capilano College and our partner learning centres support harm reduction in our learning activities?

The report on findings consists of three sections, each one describing what we discovered about these questions.