Resources

In February 2021, a dream that so many people had worked towards finally came to fruition: El Jardín — formally Northwest Instituto Latino — opened their doors to their recovery drop-in center in Southeast Portland. The center provides a breadth of harm reduction and recovery services that are designed by and for Latinos recovering from substance use disorder in Oregon—the first and only such recovery community in the state.

English Español Joining the HIV Alliance as a prevention manager was a natural transition for Dane Zahner. His background was in retail management, but he was already on the board […]

English Español At The Miracles Club, “miracle” isn’t just in the name—it’s what they strive to achieve every day. The Miracles Club is a peer-led recovery center in Portland providing […]

Mariah Wright manages three drop-in peer support centers in Umatilla and Union counties, operated by the Community Outreach Prevention and Engagement Services (COPES). These centers provide essential resources, including access […]

In rural Benton County, overdose deaths hit the community particularly close to heart. Each death is a neighbor, a friend or the friendly worker at the local pizza joint. Janeece […]

For more than 23 years, Sgt. Colleen Altabef has dedicated her career to keeping people safe in small communities along the Mid-Willamette Valley. Over the course of her 14 years […]

Jim Wikel, a citizen of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, doesn’t hesitate to point out the tension he navigates around harm reduction in his line of work in peer recovery […]

Haven Wheelock has been a self-described nerd for infectious disease since she was as young as 13 years old. She wanted to help stop novel viruses such as HIV from […]

Learn how to give naloxone with easy-to-understand video instructions in English and Spanish.

For Ruby Moon, harm reduction is deeply personal. Her daughter was struggling with addiction, and nothing she had been taught about helping people with addiction felt right. “I’d only been […]

When Carol first started supporting the Mid-Willamette Valley’s unhoused community, she quickly realized the importance of harm reduction supplies in building trust. “By handing out naloxone, it tells people that we’re not here to judge them. We’re just here to help,” she said. Through this trust, Carol’s team has connected dozens of people to housing, detox and treatment.

Knowing if drugs contain fentanyl can help people reduce their risk of overdose. Save Lives Oregon has created easy-to-use BTNX fentanyl test strip instructions and naloxone instructions for our partners to share in English and Spanish.

Outside the Frame serves young people experiencing houselessness or housing insecurity, teaching them to produce narrative and documentary films on issues they care about.   The experience can be deeply profound […]

Like many people, Paul Gonzales was a skeptic of harm reduction. As someone in recovery, his personal journey followed a strict 12-step abstinence model. That experience didn’t align with his […]

Students deserve to be safe and healthy at school. Recognizing the critical need for immediate response tools in emergencies, the Save Lives Oregon initiative will now offer eligible schools, colleges, […]

Eric Dotson’s favorite part of his job at a correctional facility in Clatsop County was getting to know the people there. “The benefit of working in a correctional facility is […]