Lisa Currier, BISW, is an Indigenous consultant, trainer, keynote speaker, and facilitator supporting communities, organizations, shelters, leadership teams, and frontline workers through practical training, facilitation, and consulting.
Medicine in Our Hands
Medicine in Our Hands is the guiding framework behind Lisa Currier Consulting. It is grounded in the belief that communities and organizations already carry knowledge, strength, and solutions. The work is to strengthen what already exists, build practical tools, and support people to respond with clarity, dignity, and coordinated care..
What This Work Supports
Lisa Currier Consulting helps communities and organizations respond to complex realities with more clarity, confidence, and care.
This work can support:
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frontline workers who are carrying heavy roles;
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leadership teams making difficult decisions;
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shelters and service providers supporting people in crisis;
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communities responding to grief, violence, and substance use;
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organizations wanting to strengthen trauma-informed practice;
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teams needing practical harm reduction training;
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boards and managers seeking deeper understanding;
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programs needing planning, reporting, or proposal support;
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conference organizers looking for a strong keynote or breakout session;
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non-Indigenous organizations seeking stronger cultural safety, accountability, and practical change
The goal is to leave people with more than information.
The goal is to leave people with language they can use, tools they can apply, plans they can build from, and confidence they can carry into their work.
How I Support Communities and Organizations
Lisa Currier Consulting supports Indigenous communities, First Nations programs, frontline organizations, boards, shelters, health teams, educational institutions, and service providers working through complex realities connected to trauma, grief, substance use, violence, residential school impacts, anti-Indigenous racism, and systems change.
This work is designed for people and organizations who want more than awareness. It is for teams ready to strengthen practice, ask harder questions, support their workers, and move toward meaningful action.
Indigenous & First Nations Community Wellness
Support for First Nations communities, health teams, leadership, NNADAP programs, mental wellness workers, youth programs, and community-based helpers responding to grief, substance use, overdose loss, violence, trauma, burnout, and service gaps.
This work may include community wellness planning, harm reduction education, toxic drug crisis response, facilitated dialogue, youth engagement, frontline training, grief support, safety planning, and practical tools communities can continue using.
Frontline Training for Mainstream Organizations
Training for non-Indigenous and mainstream organizations that serve Indigenous people and communities, including shelters, health agencies, universities, nonprofits, government-funded programs, and community service providers.
These sessions help staff move beyond surface-level awareness and strengthen real practice in cultural safety, trauma-informed care, harm reduction, anti-Indigenous racism, grief-informed support, family violence response, de-escalation, and relational accountability.
Keynotes, Conferences & Professional Learning
Powerful keynote speaking and breakout sessions for conferences, staff development days, boards, leadership gatherings, universities, shelters, and service systems.
Lisa’s keynotes bring together Indigenous knowledge, frontline experience, lived reality, systems analysis, and practical action. Topics may include Indigenous harm reduction, residential school impacts, grief and community healing, anti-Indigenous racism, gender-based violence, trauma-informed systems change, leadership responsibility, and building responsibility, practical tools, and stronger systems of care.
Shelter, Gender-Based Violence & Family Violence Work
Specialized training and consulting for women’s shelters, gender-based violence organizations, family violence prevention programs, and frontline teams supporting women, families, youth, and communities impacted by violence.
This work can include safety planning, coercive control, trauma-informed response, anti-Indigenous racism in shelter systems, firearm-related risk, crisis support, family violence prevention, de-escalation, and culturally responsive frontline practice.
Boards, Leadership & Organizational Change
Support for boards, executive directors, leadership teams, managers, and decision-makers who want to better understand their responsibility in community wellness, cultural safety, harm reduction, trauma-informed practice, and systems accountability.
This work helps leadership teams connect policy, practice, staff wellness, community relationships, and organizational responsibility in ways that are practical, honest, and action-focused.
Residential School Impacts, Grief & Community Healing
Facilitation, speaking, and training connected to residential school impacts, intergenerational trauma, grief, loss, survivor and family experiences, community healing, and the ongoing responsibilities of organizations that serve Indigenous people.
This work is grounded, respectful, and careful. It supports honest learning while centering dignity, relationship, responsibility, and meaningful action.
Community Engagement, Reports & Planning
Support with community cafés, listening sessions, facilitated discussions, participatory action research, needs assessments, summary reports, proposal development, and action planning.
This service helps turn community voice, frontline knowledge, and organizational priorities into clear reports, practical recommendations, and next steps that can support funding, programming, leadership decisions, and long-term planning.
Medicine in Our Hands
The signature approach behind Lisa Currier Consulting is grounded in the belief that communities and organizations already carry knowledge, strength, responsibility, and solutions.
The work is to strengthen what already exists, build practical tools, and support people to respond with more confidence, coordination, and care.
Featured Media & Publications
CBC Manitoba’s Mother. Sister. Daughter. project features April Stevenson drumming a song in honour of her mother, Emily Norma Ballantyne, who went missing after leaving Lynn Lake for Thompson in April 1991. The feature centres MMIWG2S, grief, love, traditional healing, justice, and the need to keep our relatives visible.
Lisa Currier’s work includes media features, public speaking, and published writing connected to Indigenous harm reduction, community wellness, frontline response, social justice, Indigenous rights, and grassroots advocacy.
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CBC Manitoba: Mother. Sister. Daughter.
CBC Manitoba’s Mother. Sister. Daughter. project, produced by Donna Carreiro, examined progress on the MMIWG Calls for Justice and centred the ongoing crisis of violence against Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse people.
The segment “Justice and the Power of Traditional Healing” explored justice, traditional healing, community-led addictions treatment, and the need for stronger systems of support.
This media feature connects to the broader work of making the issues visible, strengthening the people doing the work, and supporting communities and organizations to name the issues clearly, strengthen the people doing the work, and challenge systems that continue to cause harm.
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Klinic Community Health — Keynote Clip
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A keynote reflection from Klinic Community Health’s May 20 event, held at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
In this clip, Lisa Currier speaks about centering our relatives first in every decision. The message connects colonial violence, harm reduction, trauma, grief, racism, and systems change to the real lives of the people most impacted, reminding organizations that the work must always come back to safety, dignity, connection, and care.
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Published Chapter: Whose Streets? The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest
Lisa Currier contributed the chapter “Canada Can’t Hide Genocide”: Marching for Indigenous Rights to Whose Streets? The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest, published by Between the Lines.
The book brings together reflections from activists, organizers, demonstrators, and scholars connected to the 2010 Toronto G20 protests.
Lisa’s chapter reflects her involvement in Indigenous rights organizing, grassroots resistance, and the public call to make colonial violence, genocide, and Indigenous struggles visible within broader social justice movements.
This published work is part of Lisa’s longer history of advocacy, organizing, frontline resistance, and speaking truth to systems of power.
Keynote Feedback
"It was perfect. Engaging, informative, entertaining, personable"
Workshop Feedback
"Lisa brought harm reduction down to earth. She made it understandable, human, and connected to the realities frontline workers are actually facing."
Keynote Feedback
“Probably one of the best speakers that I’ve listened and learned from.”
About Me
Lisa Currier, BISW, is an Indigenous consultant, trainer, keynote speaker, and facilitator with more than 15 years of experience in harm reduction, community wellness, family violence prevention, crisis response, child and family services, and frontline systems work.
Through Lisa Currier Consulting, she supports communities, organizations, shelters, leadership teams, health teams, and frontline workers with practical training, facilitation, keynote speaking, and consulting.
Her work is grounded in Indigenous knowledge, frontline experience, harm reduction, trauma-informed practice, and the belief that communities already carry knowledge, strength, and solutions.
Education
2005-2009
First Nations University of Canada / University of Regina
Bachelor of Indian Social Work. Lisa Currier’s education is grounded in Indigenous social work, community-based practice, social justice, and culturally relevant approaches to wellness, family, and community support.
2009-Present
Certificates & Professional Training
Lisa Currier has completed professional training and development in harm reduction, overdose response, crisis intervention, suicide intervention, trauma-informed practice, child and family services, family violence prevention, grief support, parenting support, sexual health, systems navigation, and frontline community-based work.
This training supports her consulting, facilitation, keynote speaking, and community wellness work with communities, shelters, health teams, leadership groups, service providers, and frontline workers.
Harm Reduction, Overdose Response & Substance Use
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UBC Harm Reduction Course — University of British Columbia
Professional development focused on harm reduction principles, substance use, stigma reduction, public health approaches, and practical responses to substance-related harms. -
Indigenous Harm Reduction Train-the-Trainer — Wolf Creek Consulting, 2023
Training focused on Indigenous harm reduction, community-based education, stigma reduction, safer substance use conversations, overdose response, and building local training capacity. -
Naloxone Train-the-Trainer — St. John Ambulance, 2022
Training focused on overdose education, naloxone administration, opioid poisoning recognition, and teaching others how to respond. -
Motivational Interviewing in Harm Reduction — 2024
Professional training focused on communication skills that support change, reduce shame, and strengthen client-centred conversations in harm reduction and wellness settings. -
RAAM Clinic Shadow Training — Bannatyne, 2022
Practical exposure to Rapid Access to Addictions Medicine pathways, addiction medicine services, opioid agonist therapy, and clinical referral processes. -
Opioid Agonist Therapy / Mobile Addiction Medicine Experience
Workplace-based learning and frontline experience through mobile addiction medicine and opioid agonist therapy work in remote and northern First Nations communities.
Sexual Health, STBBI & Community Health
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HIV/Syphilis Testing Clinic Training for First Nations — MKO/KIM, 2024
Training related to HIV and syphilis testing pathways, community health response, STBBI awareness, and access to testing in First Nations contexts. -
STBBI and Sexual Health Education Experience
Professional development and applied practice connected to sexual health education, harm reduction, testing awareness, safer conversations, and community education.
Crisis Response, Suicide Intervention & Mental Wellness
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Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) — 2009
Training focused on suicide intervention, risk recognition, safety planning, and supporting individuals experiencing suicidal thoughts or crisis. -
MKO Crisis Response Training — 2024
Training connected to community crisis response, mental wellness support, trauma-informed practice, and responding to urgent needs in First Nations communities. -
Grief Support Certification — Taking Flight International
Training focused on grief, loss, bereavement, emotional support, and supporting people through significant loss and life transition. -
Mental Health and Addictions Training
Ongoing professional development and applied practice in mental wellness, substance use, crisis support, emotional regulation, and frontline helping roles.
Family Violence, Gender-Based Violence & Safety
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Tattered Teddies Training
Training focused on family violence, children’s exposure to violence, trauma, safety, and support for children and families impacted by violence. -
Family Violence Prevention Training and Practice
Professional training and applied experience related to family violence prevention, safety planning, crisis response, de-escalation, trauma-informed support, and community-based prevention. -
Red Flag Laws / Gender-Based Violence Training Development
Consulting and training development experience related to firearm-related harm, gender-based violence, intimate partner violence, safety planning, and culturally responsive education for frontline service providers. -
Women’s Shelter and Gender-Based Violence Professional Development
Training and consulting experience connected to shelter systems, anti-Indigenous racism, trauma-informed care, safety, crisis support, and practical frontline response.
Child and Family Services, Parenting & Family Support
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Global Child Interviewing Certificate — 2019
Training focused on child-sensitive interviewing, communication with children and youth, and respectful approaches to gathering information. -
Triple P Practitioner Training — 2011
Positive Parenting Program training focused on supporting caregivers, strengthening parenting skills, and promoting family wellness. -
Traditional Parenting Training
Training focused on culturally grounded parenting support, family strengthening, child development, and community-based approaches to raising children. -
C.O.R.E. Training
Child and family services training connected to documentation, standards, safety, case planning, and frontline child welfare practice. -
Child and Family Services Practice Training
Professional development and applied practice in child protection, family enhancement, reunification support, safety planning, documentation, family systems, and community-based support.
Cultural Safety, Indigenous Wellness & Community Practice
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Kapaapako Miikiwaap / The Butterfly Lodge Training
Training connected to culturally grounded wellness, healing, community support, and Indigenous approaches to helping. -
Inclusive Diversity Training — 2022
Training focused on inclusion, diversity, respectful practice, and awareness of different lived experiences within service settings. -
Cultural Safety and Anti-Indigenous Racism Professional Development
Ongoing professional development and applied experience related to anti-Indigenous racism, cultural safety, Indigenous rights, community wellness, and systems accountability. -
Community Engagement and Facilitation Practice
Applied training and professional experience in community cafés, participatory action research, facilitated dialogue, group process, community wellness planning, and report writing.
Legal Information, Systems Navigation & Advocacy
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Legal Information Workshop
Training related to legal information, systems navigation, rights awareness, and support for individuals and families interacting with service systems. -
Frontline Advocacy and Systems Navigation Experience
Professional experience supporting individuals, families, and communities navigating systems such as health, mental health, child and family services, justice, shelters, income support, and community programs.
Ongoing Professional Development
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Lisa continues to participate in professional learning that strengthens her work in consulting, facilitation, Indigenous harm reduction, trauma-informed practice, community wellness, crisis response, family violence prevention, grief support, leadership training, and frontline capacity-building.
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Her training is strengthened by extensive frontline, supervisory, leadership, and consulting experience across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and remote First Nations communities.
