🪩 Sonic Forage Harm Reduction Community Kit

Open-source harm-reduction education framework for rave/nightlife/community builders.

This repo is a forkable starter kit for communities that want public-safe, source-backed, nonjudgmental education around safer dance spaces, nightlife, festival culture, and care teams.

Important: This project is educational and community-organizing material. It is not medical advice, legal advice, emergency response training, or permission to use illegal substances. In an emergency, call local emergency services. In the U.S., SAMHSA’s National Helpline is 1-800-662-HELP (4357) and FindTreatment.gov can locate services.

🚦 Closed-gate rule

This repo is designed to be safe for autonomous/community building:

• ✅ write docs, templates, public education, source-backed checklists
• ✅ create local/private demo copies and GitHub issues
• ✅ make source-backed corrections
• ⛔ do not claim medical authority
• ⛔ do not publish event-specific private logistics or locations
• ⛔ do not distribute substances or controlled materials
• ⛔ do not run outreach, public posting, fundraising, training, or field operations without a human organizer’s explicit approval

🧬 What this gives the community

• docs/harm-reduction/HARM_REDUCTION_FIELD_GUIDE.md — source-backed starter guide
• docs/harm-reduction/RAVE_CARE_TEAM_PLAYBOOK.md — nightlife care-team structure
• docs/harm-reduction/OVERDOSE_RESPONSE_EDUCATION.md — education-forward overdose response concepts
• docs/harm-reduction/SAFE_DANCE_SPACE_CHECKLIST.md — venue/event care checklist
• docs/lessons/FORK_THIS_LESSON.md — how a city/crew forks this into their own local guide
• framework/prompts/harm-reduction-prompts.md — AI/GitHub prompts for safe docs work
• framework/payloads/harm-reduction-city.payload.example.json — reusable city payload
• framework/tags/harm-reduction-tags.json — labels/tags taxonomy
• framework/ui/HARM_REDUCTION_UNICODE_UI.md — badass but serious Unicode UI cards
• .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/ — issue forms for source corrections, city guides, care-team ideas
• docs/index.html — lightweight GitHub Pages proof deck

🧭 Fast path

git clone https://github.com/Sonic-Forage/rave-harm-reduction-community-kit.git
cd rave-harm-reduction-community-kit
python3 scripts/verify.py

Then read:

1. docs/lessons/FORK_THIS_LESSON.md
2. docs/harm-reduction/HARM_REDUCTION_FIELD_GUIDE.md
3. docs/harm-reduction/SAFE_DANCE_SPACE_CHECKLIST.md
4. framework/prompts/harm-reduction-prompts.md

🪄 Demo fork

A finished “what a fork could become” demo is published separately:

https://github.com/Sonic-Forage/rave-harm-reduction-demo-fork

That repo shows the lesson: fork the framework → choose a community lane → fill a payload → generate source-backed docs → verify → keep external action closed until humans approve.

Sources

See docs/sources/SOURCES.md. Core sources include National Harm Reduction Coalition, SAMHSA, DanceSafe, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

License

MIT — fork it, remix it, improve it, and keep it source-backed.