Operation In My Back Yard (OPIMBY) provides street-based harm reduction outreach, hot meals, basic wound care, and overdose prevention supplies—such as Naloxone and test strips—to individuals struggling with homelessness and substance use disorders
Grants Awarded
Capacity Building Support
- Year Awarded:
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2026
- Grant Program:
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Community Health Capacity Initiative
- Grant Amount:
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$30,000
Operation in My Backyard provides outreach, education, and advocacy for people impacted by substance use disorders, including weekly outreach in Kensington offering safer-use supplies, meals, hygiene products, basic necessities, and connections to health care and treatment. OPIMBY was funded to participate in the Community Health Capacity Initiative, which pairs unrestricted grant funding with tailored technical assistance and coaching through the Public Health Impact Hub at the University of Pennsylvania.
Harm Reduction Outreach
- Year Awarded:
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2023
- Grant Program:
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Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund
- Grant Amount:
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$100,000
Operation In My Back Yard was funded to provide harm reduction outreach, naloxone and safer-use supplies, meals, wound care, benefits navigation, referrals to health care, housing and treatment, drug-trend education, and community cleanups in Kensington.
