LEAF

LEAF Harm Reduction is dedicated to enhancing public health and safety through our comprehensive Harm Reduction Program including Drug Checking Services and community engagement efforts. By reducing infections, preventing overdoses, and providing critical health education, we strive to create a healthier, safer community for all. Through our compassionate and innovative approach, LEAF Harm Reduction is not only supporting individuals who use drugs, but also fostering a more informed and engaged community. Harm reduction improves quality of life, through dignity, autonomy, and compassion. It’s the missing link that can be applied to all levels of  are – it is not an alternative to care.

LEAF is a harm reduction program that expands upon a range of services through a culturally humble, stigma-free, compassionate approach to health and education.

LEAF’s Programming includes:

1. Risk Reduction Supply Distribution: Provision of sterile syringes, safer use equipment, and safer sex supplies such as condoms to prevent the transmission of bloodborne pathogens such as HIV and Hepatitis B and C.
2. Drug Checking Services: On-site drug testing to identify harmful substances and contaminants, providing users with critical information to make safer choices.
3. Overdose Prevention and Response: Providing training on overdose prevention and response, distribution of naloxone and CPR education and safety planning.
4. Health & Wellness Supply Distribution: General and menstrual hygiene kits, wound care kits as well as survival supplies such as tents, hotel fees, sleeping bags and more.
5. Substance Use Management Services: Screening and promoting any positive change through engagements to substance use management, safety planning, and connections and providing active referrals to substance use disorder treatment and recovery services.
6. Additional Referral Services: Connecting individuals with various SUD, housing, mental health, employment, legal, healthcare, and social service systems and supports.
7. HIV/HCV & STI Testing, Treatment, and Care: Providing referrals for testing and treatment for individuals to reduce individual and communicable disease outbreaks.

Community Engagement Services:

1. Outreach Programs: Engaging with the community through street outreach, mobile units, and pop-up clinics to reach individuals where they are.
2. Partnerships with Local Organizations: DCS empower communities through access to real-time information relative to supply adulteration and variance, and can alert public-health, healthcare, and law-enforcement personnel as to emerging supply trends within communities.
3. Educational Workshops and Training: Hosting workshops and training sessions for community members, healthcare professionals, and first responders on harm reduction and overdose response.
4. Advocacy and Awareness Campaigns: Promoting public health policies and increasing awareness about the benefits of harm reduction through media campaigns, public speaking, and community events.
5. Volunteer and Peer Support Programs: Encouraging community members to get involved through volunteering and peer support, fostering a sense of community and shared responsibility.