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The Gender Health Center’s Harm Reduction Program, The Point, is built on the foundation of liberatory harm reduction, an approach that centers dignity, autonomy, and safety. We meet people where they are with compassion, non-judgment, and practical support while also working to dismantle the structural violence that makes harm reduction necessary in the first place.
Our approach is deeply informed by the leadership and lived experiences of Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPOC), sex workers, and people who use drugs who are the visionaries and frontline defenders who have always driven this work forward.
Harm reduction is sacred work; it is ancestral work. Harm reduction is a compassionate model for those who are left to grapple with coloniality-induced grief and the multigenerational maladaptive skills that were developed to survive unutterable compounded destruction and dysfunctionality.
- Shira Hassan | Saving Our Own Lives
Mobile Services & Home Delivery
The Point Program offers mobile harm reduction services and a home delivery program. Community members can access our harm reduction services along our mobile route Tuesday & Thursday 10am - 4pm.
The harm reduction team is also offering home delivery of gender affirming supplies on Wednesdays. Please see the link below for more information on ordering and delivery timeline:
Harm reduction happens in the pockets of exquisite care we show our love ones, without questioning or judging their life choices, or imagining that we know better than they do.
- Shira Hassan | Saving Our Own Lives
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Photo credit: National Harm Reduction Coalition (first image), Rooted Diaspora Consulting LLC (second image) & Art by Katie Kaplan (third image)
OVERDOSE PREVENTION & RESPONSE TRAINING (Nasal Narcan)
Training opiate users, their friends and family on how to avoid an overdose, how to recognize one, and how to respond with calling 911, rescue breathing, and use of Nasal Narcan. Addressing the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S. – opioid overdose.
To arrange a training, please email hrs@ghcmail.org
EDUCATION, RESPONSE, AND ACCESS (ERA)
Targeted education and services. Overdose prevention & response, HIV/STI testing, medical and mental health information, MAT (medication assisted treatment) referrals and assistance in accessing services.
ADDITIONAL SERVICES OFFERED
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Distribution of Survival Supplies (Food, Hygiene, Water, Blankets, non-prescription medications)
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Risk reduction education and referrals
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Condom & Lube Distribution
