New Sanctuary Movement’s Accompaniment and Immigrant Leadership Development Programs support immigrants of color to meet their holistic needs while creating systems of healing, resiliency, and resistance. NSM’s Accompaniment Program recognizes that immigrants of color face interlocking systems of oppression and require an antiracist casework model that is culturally sensitive, all-encompassing, and empowers immigrants to collectively […]
Project Type: Support Project
Bienstar
The promoter program at Centro de Apoyo Comunitario equips community leaders with enhanced skills in assessment, community navigation, and referrals, while also providing the necessary support to manage the intricate task of assisting new immigrants. Leveraging local community leaders, Centro’s program is adept at identifying issues promptly and intervening swiftly to deliver culturally pertinent services. […]
Immigrant Family Wellness Program
SEAMAAC’s mission is to support and serve immigrants, refugees, and other marginalized communities, as they seek to advance the condition of their lives in the United States. Funding from the Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness will support SEAMAAC’s Immigrant Family Wellness Program. The Immigrant Family Wellness Program celebrates community connections, resiliency, and empowerment within immigrant […]
Getting from Point A to Point C
Womxn Beyond Borders’ objective is to provide harm reduction services to marginalized communities. Much of their work is in implementing alternative practices in the community, such as yoga and breathing techniques to decrease anger, self defense classes for womxn and, providing crisis packages for persons experiencing domestic violence. They also opened a crisis intervention house […]
Prosperity Path Project on the Rolling Engagement Van
Why Not Prosper’s Prosperity Path Project (PPP) will provide a targeted harm reduction component distributing naloxone, safer sex kits, hygiene kits and menstruation kits, wound care kits, and fentanyl test strips to BIPOC people who use drugs (PWUD) to their new Rolling Engagement Van (REV) – an innovative program that is part of Why Not […]
Unidos4Safety Prevention 101
Unidos4Safety Prevention 101: The Prevention 101 kits are pocket-sized safety kits that provide prevention information and material, as well as harm reduction items for individuals with OUD, IV use, and those at risk for Hepatitis C, STI, and HIV infections. Their purpose? Saving lives, reducing overdoses, and increasing chances of achieving recovery by providing local […]
Black Overdose Resilience Project
The Black Overdose Resilience Project plans to conduct a survey with Black people who use drugs to develop a plan for engaging Black PWUDs who are not currently using any harm reduction services and those who do not identify as drug users even though they consume drugs. With the information gained from the survey, Project […]
Harm Reduction Initiative
The Harm Reduction Initiative integrates harm reduction principles into the Philadelphia Black Women’s Health Alliance’s existing curricula and program offerings for both teens and adults. This initiative represents a holistic approach to healing and wellness, aiming to mitigate the harm caused by substance use while empowering individuals with the knowledge, tools, and support needed for […]
Targeted Street Outreach
The objective of Men of the Community (MOC) Targeted Street Outreach is to decrease the number of fatal overdoses in neighborhoods with the highest rate of overdoses in Erie, PA. These neighborhoods are disproportionately made up of BIPOC families. MOC Targeted Street Outreach will distribute Narcan, Fentanyl Testing Strips, and Xylazine Testing Strips door-to-door in […]
Nourish and Shield
AIDS Care Group (ACG) was formed in 1998 and funded primarily by HRSA’s Ryan White grants to fill the gaps in medical services for Chester and surrounding disadvantaged communities. Their mission is “Working for and within populations adversely affected by stigma, poor access to care, discrimination, and poverty, AIDS Care Group (ACG) is dedicated to […]