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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.
Broken No More was formed by families and friends of those living with substance use disorder, and advocates for drug policies that will reduce stigma and prevent overdose deaths.
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 Domestic Violence Awareness Project supports the rights of all individuals, especially women and girls against violence and other forms of oppression. They promote national, tribal, territorial, state, and local advocacy networks in their ongoing public education efforts through public awareness, strategies, materials, resources, capacity-building, and technical assistance.
Faces & Voices of Recovery is the nation’s leading non-profit recovery advocacy organization, mobilizing organizations, peer support specialists, communities, and leaders all over the country to advocate for normalizing recovery and de-stigmatizing addiction.
Legal Action Center and Opioid Settlement Tracker have created a resource that community-based organizations across the United States can use to determine how they can utilize opioid settlement funds for addiction treatment, overdose prevention, harm reduction, and other related services.
The Mental Health Association in New Jersey (MHANJ) is a statewide non-profit organization whose mission is to strive for children and adults to achieve victory over mental illness and substance use disorders through advocacy, education, training and services.
Mercer Council is a private, non-profit agency dedicated to the prevention of substance abuse and its harmful consequences. They provide quality alcohol, tobacco and other substance use prevention and early intervention programs and services in partnership with individuals, families, schools, communities, businesses and professionals throughout the Greater Mercer County area.
Purchase Narcan nasal spray direct from Emergent Devices Inc.
1-844-4-NARCAN (1-844-462-7226)
If you are experiencing Domestic Violence, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is free, confidential, and available 24/7 at 1-800-799-SAFE (7223)
The National Network to End Domestic Violence is a social change organization, dedicated to creating a social, political, and economic environment in which domestic violence no longer exists.
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.
The New Jersey Coalition for Addiction Recovery Support (NJ-CARS) provides a platform to celebrate the hope of recovery, promote the value of individuals with lived experience, and incorporates recovery support services across the continuum of care for substance use disorders throughout New Jersey.
The mission of the New Jersey Coalition to End Domestic Violence is to lead collaborative community and systemic responses to domestic violence by providing public awareness, training, advocacy, policy development, technical assistance and supportive services.
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.
Prevention Links connects people in New Jersey to life-changing resources that combat the negative impacts of drugs, violence, and inadequate educational and health institutions in our communities.
The RWJBarnabas Health Institute for Prevention and Recovery (IFPR) provides substance use disorder prevention programs, nicotine and tobacco treatment and innovative recovery support and social care services, taking a systems change approach to address social determinants of health and enhance care delivery systems throughout New Jersey.
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.
The Opioid Settlement funds are designed to support State and local responses to combating the opioid epidemic. The Opioid Abatement Reports highlight the annual spending by county.
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