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• Safe Use Supplies - distributes naloxone, safe injection, smoking kits, and snorting kits
• Needle Exchange - allows individuals to exchange used needles for sterile ones
• Peer Support - Peer Recovery Specialists always travel as part of the outreach team
• Treatment Navigation - connects individuals with resources for jobs, housing, legal assistance, social service registration, etc. Provides transportation to appointments when available.
• Snacks and personal care items
• Printed resources - informational materials with recovery resources

Provides syringes for safe injection practices, education, counseling, and support to overall health and reduction of the spread of disease. Needles are typically 27-29 gauge, but 18-20 gauge may be available from time to time. Trans persons are welcome to use this exchange for Hormone Replacement Therapy purposes. Also offers drug testing strips for Fentanyl and Xylazine, and sharps containers so that used needles may be safely disposed of. Narcan (Naloxone) is also available upon request and after individual completes a brief training on how to use it.

Other harm reduction services include:

-- Safer injection materials, including: syringes, cottons, cookers, alcohol pads, waters, and band-aids

-- Safer smoking materials, including: pipe covers, copper filters, and alcohol pads

-- Wound care counseling, provides education to recognize and prevent abscesses, cellulitis, and other wounds

-- Hepatitis C and HIV rapid testing (results within minutes)

-- Overdose Prevention: Narcan kits and education

-- Drug testing strips for both Fentanyl and Xylazine

If supplies are needed after hours, they can be accessed through the vending option on the south side of the building.  If supplies need to be delivered, clients must fill out the Harm Reduction Supply Delivery form (deliveries are limited to Champaign and Vermilion Counties).

Provides the following, infectious disease investigation, patient education, and limited follow-up tests, information on international travel, STD/STI education, testing, treatment, referral, and partner notification for specific STD's (including gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, HIV), Tuberculosis (TB) testing, initial chest x-rays, laboratory tests, and medical evaluations for positive TB reactors, Tuberculosis medications and follow up testing may be provided as medically indicated, Hepatitis C testing, harm reduction services (including access to sterile syringes, safe disposal of syringes, other injection supplies, education, and referrals), Naloxone (Narcan) education and distribution, Fentanyl test strips and male and receptive partner condoms.

Offers supportive services to individual dealing with substance abuse disorders. Services include narcan and fentanyl test strips (with training on how to use them), group education (overdose prevention, substance use, and harm reduction), free harm reduction supplies, recovery coaching and support groups, transportation, information and referral for treatment, recovery, and other services.

• HIV testing, counseling, and care
• Hepatitis C screening, counseling, and care
• Hepatitis A/B and HPV vaccinations
• STI testing, counseling, and treatment
• LGBTQ+ and gender health services
• PrEP and nPEP medication
• Support groups
• Needle exchange
• Safe sex supplies
• Referrals for related medical and behavioral health services

Provides HIV, Hepatitis C, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydia counseling and mobile testing services during evening and late-night hours in locations where high-risk behavior (drug activity, sexual activity, etc.) is known to occur. The program also aims to reduce harm by offering sterile injection supplies and equipment to prevent the transmission of blood-borne infectious diseases and other health complications. Supplies may include sterile needles, syringes, alcohol swabs, and sharps disposal containers, among others, and are available to support safe injection practices, including hormone injection for trans, gender-diverse, and two-spirited individuals.