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Syringe Service and Harm Reduction Program Practices and Activities that Help Prevent and Decrease Syringe Litter | November 1, 2022

Date of Presentation: November 1, 2022

Type: Past Presentation  

Program: Harm Reduction  

In this presentation, Blue Valentine, CHW, Harm Reduction Peer Specialist, Sabrina Garcia, Peer Recovery Specialist, and Hannah Roy, Health Promotion Supervisor, share their experiences starting a harm reduction program, how they provide syringe services and what methods they use to promote safe disposal of used syringes and decrease syringe litter in their communities.

Recording:

Presented by:

Blue Valentine, CHW, Harm Reduction Peer Specialist; Sabrina Garcia, Peer Recovery Specialist; Hannah Roy, Health Promotion Supervisor

Blue Valentine, CHW, is a Harm Reduction Peer Specialist that currently works as part of a cross-program team of communicable disease, health navigation, and harm reduction staff at the Benton County Health Department, as part of the End HIV Oregon Project. Her work includes street and camp outreach, rapid testing, syringe services, client advocacy, naloxone distribution, and HIV and STI education. She coordinates a regional harm reduction group for the Linn, Benton, Lincoln, and Siletz region that has a focus on overdose prevention and naloxone access. Blue is also a member of the Measure 110 Accountability and Oversight Council. She started working in harm reduction in Los Angeles in 1992, and has extensive experience providing HIV/STI prevention and testing and syringe services to diverse communities, including people who use drugs, people experiencing homelessness, sex workers, LGBTQ+ individuals, and people living with HIV.

Sabrina Garcia, Peer Recovery Specialist, is a peer specialist with PRIME + in Klamath County, Oregon.

Hannah Roy, Health Promotion Supervisor, oversees the harm reduction program in Malheur County, Oregon for the past 2 years. She also has 2 years experience working as a Peer Recovery Mentor/ Health Specialist with PRIME +. Prior to these roles, she has 8 years experience working as an EMT.

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Date added: November 2, 2022