Community-centric harm reduction services by and for people who use drugs in the Greater STL Metro East area and beyond.
Community-centric harm reduction services by and for people who use drugs in the Greater STL Metro East area and beyond.
Seeing a need for low-barrier harm reduction services in our community, we began our grassroots harm reduction work in the STL Metro East area in 2017.
Today we serve over 850+ unique program participants in the Greater STL Metro East area of IL & beyond.
Our hybrid service model includes:
ALL program services are ALWAYS FREE.
We support people who use drugs by building authentic relationships rooted in safety and trust.
We provide practical, evidence-based tools and holistic wellness education that empowers people who use drugs with options to make informed decisions about their personal wellness goals, the drugs they decide to use, and how they consume them.
We mobilize our deeply held principles and advocate relentlessly for compassionate and progressive evidence-based drug policy reform at the local, state, and national level.
We work to reduce the negative impacts of deeply rooted social stigma, drug related myths and misinformation, increasing criminalization, and other systemic harms experienced by people who use drugs.
We support people who use drugs & meet them where they are without judgement or an implied expectation to change.
Our approach to sustain equitable safer use supply access promotes individual autonomy and self-advocacy with a collective community mindset. We utilize a mutual aid model framework for supply distribution that builds our participants' trust, cultivates community care, & centers bodily autonomy. This approach empowers true low-barrier access to our drug user health services. Above all, we prioritize the safety, autonomy, and well-being of people who use drugs that are disproportionately harmed by systems that default to control, punishment, and surveillance over self-directed wellness options for care.
Please contact us 2-3 days in advance before you are expected to run out of safer use supplies. Thank you!
Test before you ingest! Participants can access our confidential community-based drug checking services free of charge. If you need more information or have questions about how drug checking works, please message us here or text 618.882.2452 for info about alternative messaging platforms.
