Video: How to Give Naloxone
Learn how to give naloxone with easy-to-understand video instructions in English and Spanish.
Partner Spotlight | Ruby Moon, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
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 taught tough love,” Moon said. “As a mom, it didn’t feel right that somehow I had to feel guilty about giving her money for a […]
Partner Spotlights | Carol Davies, Creating Housing Coalition
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.
New pamphlets for fentanyl test strip and naloxone kits
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.
Partner Spotlight | Erin Yanke, Outside the Frame
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 for a group of people who are typically invisible to society — and who have learned to use that invisibility as a shield. But first […]
Partner Spotlight | Dane Zahner, HIV Alliance
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 of HIV Alliance and deeply committed to its mission of supporting people living with HIV/AIDS and preventing new HIV infections. As a gay man and a recovering […]
Partner Spotlight | Paul Gonzales, Bay Area First Step
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 organization’s new line of work at the time — distributing safer injection kits to help reduce the spread of infections. “OK, we’re enabling people, getting […]
Join Our Monthly Learning Collaboratives
Learning Collaboratives are a new offering from the Save Lives Oregon initiative designed to foster connection and growth for people engaged in harm reduction work. The monthly sessions are a space where service providers and peers can come together to share knowledge, strategies, and support.
Save Lives Oregon Impact Report: January 2024
The Save Lives Oregon Impact Report: January 2024 provides an overview of our initiative’s collaborative work to date with partners across Oregon and Tribal communities to reduce substance use related harm. It emphasizes the importance of our collective efforts in creating communities that are both safer and healthier. The report highlights include: Engaging 881 initiative […]
Oregon schools, colleges and universities now eligible to receive no-cost overdose reversal kits through the Save Lives Oregon Harm Reduction Clearinghouse
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, universities and school-based health centers (SBHCs) overdose reversal kits through its Harm Reduction Clearinghouse. This is an important step in providing our educators and school […]
