Harm Reduction Satellite Sites Program Guide LaunchExpanding high-impact, low-barrier responses to the overdose crisis in residential and community settings.
This is a recording of the webinar held on October 26, 2020 launching the Harm Reduction Satellite Sites Program Guide.
The term “Satellite sites” is used to refer to informal harm reduction hubs operating out of the homes of people who use drugs. Informally operating in Toronto for over 20 years, these sites offer, at a minimum, access to sterile drug use supplies outside of more formal settings like health centres. Many Satellite sites offer much more than this – including naloxone and overdose response training, safe needle disposal, and referrals to health care services
In this webinar providers shared their experiences in the hope that it will be helpful for community-based service providers who would like to develop similar programming, or explore other models of providing health and harm reduction services to people who use drugs, particularly in residential and other community settings.
This webinar was co-hosted with the Ontario Harm Reduction Network and moderated by Dr. Gillian Kolla.
Additional Resources:
- Harm Reduction Satellite Sites Program Guide
- Blog: Satellite Sites: Providing harm reduction from the homes of people who use drugs
- Evaluation of the Parkdale Peer Satellite Program
- Research paper- Practices of care among people who buy, use, and sell drugs in community settings
- Research paper- ‘It's too much, I'm getting really tired of it’: Overdose response and structural vulnerabilities among harm reduction workers in community settings