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 750+ unique program participants in Madison, St. Clair, & Jersey Counties in the Greater STL Metro East area & beyond. Our service model includes: mobile & mail-based delivery of all safer use supplies (safer smoking, safer injecting, safer snorting, and other alternative routes of consumption), naloxone (Narcan), stimulant use supplies (PNP/chemsex gear + worx), confidential drug checking services by request, safer sex supplies and connection to reproductive health service providers, peer centered harm reduction guidance and overdose reversal education, point-of-care wound care services, and participant-initiated referrals to service providers with connection to other community resources.
Our program services are ALWAYS FREE.
We aim to empower people who use drugs with holistic wellness education and accessible options for safer drug use supplies and overdose reversal education by creating authentic relationships built with safety and trust. We actualize our deeply held principles and advocate relentlessly for compassionate and progressive evidence-based drug policy reform on local, state, and national levels to promote health equity and work to reduce the impact of systemic harms weaponized against people who use drugs that disproportionately affect the lives of individuals with multiple marginalized intersectional identities within our communities. We intentionally practice radical hospitality to engage PWUD and meet them where they are, just as they are, without judgement or implied expectation to change.
We sustain equity by blending individual autonomy and self-advocacy with a collective community mindset. We utilize a mutual aid model hybrid framework for supply distro that cultivates our participants' trust, organic community care, & autonomy, allowing true low-barrier access to our drug user health services that prioritizes the safety and well-being of marginalized drug users disenfranchised by oppressive systems that rely on punishment and surveillance that harm folx that as having multiple intersectional marginalized identities.
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.
