About - Save Lives Oregon

A healthier community begins with saving lives

About Save Lives Oregon

We are dedicated to preventing overdose and restoring hope.

Save Lives Oregon began in 2020, as fentanyl flooded the illicit market. Since then, we have grown to become a network of more than 420 community organizations working together across the state and Tribal communities to reduce overdose, prevent infections, and creating healthier communities.

Our impact

Download the April 2026 Impact Brief

Naloxone doses distributed

Opioid overdose reversals reporte

Schools equipped with opioid overdose reversal kits

Community agencies receiving life saving supplies

Meet Our Leadership Team

Our leadership team has decades of experience working together to build healthier communities.

Oregon Health Authority

Oregon Health Authority is committed to supporting people and communities to achieve physical, mental and social well-being.

HIV Alliance

HIV Alliance was formed in Eugene in 1994 to support people living with HIV/AIDS and prevent new HIV infections. Our offerings seek to empower individuals, remove barriers to accessing support, and supply pragmatic, compassionate approaches to reducing risk. At the core of our programs and services are core values, including collaboration, empowerment, adaptability and innovation, continuous improvement, and non-judgment.

Max’s Mission

Max’s Mission is devoted to saving lives that might otherwise be lost to opioid overdose. We meet people where they are with supplies, overdose education and free naloxone distribution. We are also a link to services that center love, respect and support.

Outside In

Since 1968, Outside In has transformed thousands of lives by helping break the cycles of chronic homelessness, poverty, and poor health among Portland’s LGBTQIA+ community, people of color, those experiencing homelessness, and the underserved. Our health clinic and young adult programs strive to meet people where they are and provide safe, affirming spaces for our community to receive judgment-free care and support.

El Jardín

El Jardín believes that the roots of recovery grow in the soil of community, are nurtured by the light of culture and are watered with the transformational power of a radical compassion that seeks to meet people wherever they may be on their journey. We are committed to educating the Latinx community on life saving practices to save lives in Oregon. Our culturally and linguistically specific recovery drop-in center provides no cost, low barrier mentoring, outreach and support to the Hispanic/Latino/Latinx and Spanish speaking communities in the Portland area.

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Community Health

The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Community Health aims to provide quality outreach, health care and disease prevention services to the Siletz community through the use of well-trained representatives. We provide confidential and compassionate health services. We are here to help the Siletz community make healthier decisions to improve their quality of life.

Miracles Club

Miracles Club is a community recovery center that offers addiction peer services to the African American Community, a fellowship hall, events and meeting space for community recovery meetings. Founded in 1993 by three men in recovery wishing to create a safe and sober environment to sustain the African American Community has evolved into today's Miracles Club.

4D Recovery

4D Recovery's goal is to honor each young person’s recovery journey and support them in finding a pathway that suits their unique needs through peer-based support, community centers, and supportive housing. We believe that each individual is an expert on their own life and that any pathway of recovery they choose is valid.

Painted Horse Recovery

Painted Horse Recovery provides peer mentorship in a culturally specific safe space for Native Americans.

Multnomah County Public Health

Clatsop County Public Health

Clatsop County is committed to helping people who use drugs. We provide resources including prevention and recovery supplies and support. We also strive to create partnerships with the community and build a program that supports community health.

Meet Our Leadership Team

Our leadership team has decades of experience with harm reduction in Oregon and tribal communities. We are here to support you as you integrate harm reduction strategies into your existing work.

Oregon Health Authority

Oregon Health Authority is committed to supporting people and communities to achieve physical, mental and social well-being. That includes promoting the health and dignity of people who use drugs, especially those impacted by injustice, oppression and trauma. From prevention and recovery support to harm reduction, care and treatment — we strive to ensure all paths to hope, healing and health remain open.

HIV Alliance

HIV Alliance was formed in Eugene in 1994 to support people living with HIV/AIDS and prevent new HIV infections. Today, we also provide harm reduction services including naloxone, naloxone training and syringe exchanges. Our harm reduction offerings seek to empower individuals, remove barriers to accessing support, and supply pragmatic, compassionate approaches to reducing risk. At the core of our programs and services are core values, including collaboration, empowerment, adaptability and innovation, continuous improvement, and non-judgment.

Max's Mission

Max’s Mission is devoted to saving lives that might otherwise be lost to opioid overdose. We meet people where they are with harm reduction supplies, overdose education and free naloxone distribution. We are also a link to services that center love, respect and support. We engage communities throughout Oregon to eradicate the stigma of drug use.

Outside In

NW Instituto Latino

The NW Instituto Latino believes that the roots of recovery grow in the soil of community, are nurtured by the light of culture and are watered with the transformational power of a radical compassion that seeks to meet people wherever they may be on their journey. We are committed to educating the Latinx community on life saving harm reduction practices to save lives in Oregon. Our culturally and linguistically specific recovery drop-in center provides no cost, low barrier mentoring, outreach and support to the Hispanic/Latino/Latinx and Spanish speaking communities in the Portland area.

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Community Health

Miracles Club

4D Recovery

Painted Horse Recovery

Painted Horse Recovery provides peer mentorship in a culturally specific safe space for Native Americans.

Multnomah County Health Department

Multnomah County Health Department works with communities to advance health equity, protect the most vulnerable, and promote health and wellness for everyone. Our vision is thriving communities that nurture the health and resilience of all. Our harm reduction program promotes the health and dignity of people who use drugs by meeting immediate healthcare needs and advocating for systemic changes that reduce health inequities, oppression and trauma.

Clatsop County

Clatsop County Harm Reduction Program is committed to helping people who use drugs. We provide resources including prevention and recovery supplies and support. We also strive to create partnerships with the community and build a program that supports community health as well as the people using our harm reduction program.

Connected communities save lives

Nearly one third of adults in the US have lost someone they know to a drug overdose – but together, we can do something about it.

When we share knowledge, tools, supplies, and compassion, we can keep people connected to care. Each of us has a role to play in creating healthier Oregon where we are all valued and supported.

Evidence based strategies that work

Prevent and reverse overdoses

What it is: Provide overdose reversal medication such as naloxone to people who use drugs.

How it helps: People who use drugs perform the most bystander overdose reversals. Providing them with naloxone and information about how to use it is an effective way to save lives.

Distribute personal care supplies

What it is: Give out supplies like toothpaste, toothbrushes, tampons and foot care supplies.

How it works: People who use drugs may face challenges accessing items that are important for health and comfort. Making personal care items easily available supports quality of life, and improves health.

Support safe disposal of syringes

What it is: Give out collection boxes for disposing syringes safely.

How it works: When syringes end up in the garbage or on the ground, they can create an injury hazard. Collection boxes make it easier for people to dispose of syringes.

Increased use of medical and social services

What it is: Connecting people with safer use supplies and services can lead them to access other needed supports.

How it works: Organizations that provide safer use supplies are often closely connected with those offering medical care, recovery support, and other services. By meeting people where they are and building trust, these organizations can help connect individuals to additional care and support—creating pathways toward healing and recovery when people are ready.