ACLU-NJ was founded in 1960 and operates as a non-partisan organization on political, legal, and cultural fronts to advocate for systemic change and a more equitable society.
Creative Change Counseling’s Peer Recovery Center offers solution-focused, evidence-based, and culturally sensitive support. Peer Recovery at Creative Change Counseling is a welcoming and supportive haven for those in recovery and individuals on their journey to recovery.
This page offers information, including an instructional video to help provide emergency assistance to those experiencing an opioid overdose using intranasal naloxone, also know as narcan.
The Newark Community Street Team was founded by Mayor Ras J. Baraka as Newark’s community-based violence reduction strategy. NCST draws upon an evidence-based, trauma informed approach to violence reduction by hiring, training, and deploying Outreach Workers and High Risk Interventionists in the South and West Wards of Newark, New Jersey.
New Jersey Harm Reduction Coalition (NJHRC) was formed in 2019 by people who use drugs, people who used to use drugs, people in recovery, people who have lost loved ones to overdose, people harmed by the drug war, faith leaders, and concerned community members. They will mail naloxone for free and confidentially throughout New Jersey. You can request naloxone by visiting their website, or by calling/texting 1-877-4NARCAN.
New Jersey Policy Perspective is a nonpartisan organization which drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.
OnPoint NYC opened in November 2021 and became the first organization in the United States to launch two Overdose Prevention Centers in New York City. Their efforts improve the health, safety, and well-being of marginalized communities who use drugs or engage in sex work.
Salvation and Social Justice seeks to liberate public policy theologically by modeling the hope and resiliency of Black faith; where historically marginalized people move from lament to liberation by envisioning and creating their own community led solutions to a structurally racist society.
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) Published an Opioid Response Toolkit in February 2024. This comprehensive resource provides insight on the following topics: Harm Reduction Basics, Treatment as Prevention, Overdose Reversal Medications, and Policy Considerations.
Song for Charlie is a national family-run nonprofit charity dedicated to raising awareness about fake pills made of fentanyl, known as “fentapills.” They partner with experts, educators, parents and other influencers to reach the most vulnerable group: young people between the ages of 13-24.
The South Jersey AIDS Alliance provides multi-regional direct services to support and assist any and all persons living with HIV/AIDS, their families, and their caregivers regardless of age, race, religious beliefs, national origin, gender affiliation, sexual preference, sexual orientation and criminal and/or addictive behavior.
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