Life-saving strategies, life-changing partnerships

Join the harm reduction movement

As a Save Lives Oregon partner, we’ll support you in connecting people who use drugs with life-saving supplies and services. We’re here every step of the way.

Every life is worth saving. Partner with us and we can work together to develop or expand harm reduction activities or programs for your community.

Support and resources for partners

Harm Reduction Clearinghouse

The Harm Reduction Clearinghouse provides life-saving supplies at no cost to partner organizations that qualify. Supplies may include:

Overdose prevention supplies such as naloxone
Wound care supplies
Safer use supplies
Personal sharps containers

Communications Resources & Materials

Harm reduction is proven to save lives and benefit people and communities, but some people may have questions about what it is and how it helps. We create and distribute tools and materials to help our partners explain and share about harm reduction in their communities.

Training & Education

We know that every organization is unique, and so is every community. To help our partners add harm reduction strategies to their services, we offer ongoing support like monthly Learning Collaboratives and easy-to-follow training guides.

Who can become a partner?

Organizations that directly serve people who use drugs can become a Save Lives Oregon partner.

All partners can access our communications resources and materials to grow their harm reduction programs and receive access to our educational trainings, including our monthly Learning Collaboratives.

To qualify for state-funded supplies through the Harm Reduction Clearinghouse, your organization must fall into one of the following categories:

Category 1:

Your organization must directly serve people who use drugs in Oregon and be one of the following types of organizations:

Community-based organizations with 501(c)(3) status or 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsorship
Harm reduction and syringe service programs within community health clinics, federally qualified health centers or local public health authorities
Jails providing release packets that include naloxone and/or other harm reduction supplies to people who may be at risk of overdose when they are released
Uniformed first responder agencies implementing ‘Leave Behind’ naloxone distribution programs
Tribal community and health care programs that serve people who use drugs
Withdrawal management or residential substance use disorder treatment programs for clients that leave AMA or are turned away

Category 2:

Schools, colleges, universities and school-based health centers (SBHCs) are now eligible to order state-funded overdose reversal kits through the Save Lives Oregon Harm Reduction Clearinghouse. Click here to learn more about eligibility requirements and how to apply.

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

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.

NW Instituto Latino

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

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. That includes methods of harm reduction and medication-assisted recovery.

Painted Horse Recovery

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

Multnomah County Public Health

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 Public Health

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.

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