harm reduction services center

The Harm Reduction Services Center provides a safe and welcoming space where drug users and sex workers can access health care and social services and take a break from life on the street.

From Monday through Friday, people can drop in to get a hot meal, clean clothes or condoms, talk to a counselor, take an HIV test or get a referral to drug treatment, medical care, housing, job training and other social services. The Center provides primary medical care through an on-site medical clinic and offers legal help through its new on-site legal clinic. It also offers education, support and activity groups, including:

• Life Management Group: Active substance users meet weekly with a health professional and a peer to discuss health concerns, accessing social services, HIV prevention, and other strategies for reducing the harm associated with substance use.

• Community Day: Syringe exchange participants and community members gather weekly at the Center to prepare safer-sex materials and bleach kits for the syringe exchange sites and street outreach.
  
  
• Health Education Group: This weekly group is open to all consumers as an HIV/AIDS and general ducation and treatment group.
  
  
• Women's Support Group: This group meets weekly and features speakers and discussion on women's health, HIV prevention and access to social services, childcare and employment.