Resource Number: 200591
Alternate name: Baltimore City Needle Exchange Program, Community Risk Reduction Services; Baltimore City Health Department, Needle Exchange & Staying Alive Program;BCHD-Community Risk Reduction Services

Description
SYRINGE SERVICES PROGRAM: Deploys mobile health vehicles throughout the City of Baltimore in order to provide community-based outreach, which includes onsite: counseling, testing and referral services (HIV, Syphilis screenings); Vaccines (Influenza, Hepatitis A, and COVID); health education and information on safe injection practices, risk and harm reduction, HIV and STD prevention, tuberculosis, and other health disparities; Care linkage services for substance use disorders treatment, sexually health and reproductive health services. Individuals can bring in used syringes for proper disposal and receive new ones or pick up new syringes as needed.

STAYING ALIVE PROGRAM: Provides training to community stakeholders, individuals, and organizations on how to recognize an opioid-related overdose and properly respond calling 911, administering rescue breathing and Naloxone (also known as Narcan). The program provides Naloxone to anyone in the community, free of charge. Also provides referrals to medication assisted treatment and other services for individuals with substance use disorders.

Baltimore City Health Department provides a Naloxone resource information page and a map that shows a list of pharmacies where individuals can get Narcan Nasal Spray (a formulation of naloxone): https://dontdie.org/get-naloxone/.

Program Phones: 410-396-3733 Main 410-371-2596 East Van Mobile Unit 1 410-371-2547 West Van Mobile Unit 2 410-233-3602 Fax

Senior Administrator Derrick Hunt Director

Website: health.baltimorecity.gov/hiv-std-services/community-risk-reduction Email: [email protected]

 

Attachments

Volunteer Application (.pdf)