Harm Reduction services
Nova Scotia Take Home Naloxone Project
A hub of information related to Naloxone, a medication that can temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid overdose and allow time for medical help to arrive. They offer educational material on opioid overdose, the risk factors, prevention measures, and common myths.
1-833-347-2142 (toll free)
nsnaloxone@nshealth.ca
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Mainline Needle Exchange
A program of the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre, Mainline is a health promotion organization dedicated to supporting people who use drugs (PWUD) through harm reduction programs. They offer free safer use supplies including needles, syringes, sterile water, cookers, matches, filters, ties, condoms, stems, and meth pipes. Their services include safe disposal of used needles, fentanyl test strips and naloxone kits, awareness and education, peer support, resource navigation related to legal, social services, employment, and housing issues, and more.
5367 Cogswell Street, Halifax
1-902-423-9991
1-877-904-4555 (toll free)
Direction 180
A program is the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre, Direction 180 is a non-profit community-based opioid treatment program located in the Halifax’s North End. Services include but are not limited to addition medical assessment and follow-up medical care, Hepatitis C care and treatment, wound care, Hepatitis A and B immunizations, peer support, recovery support programs, skills building and peer development programs, harm reduction education including Overdose Prevention training and take home naloxone, and advocacy services.
2151 Gottingen Street, Halifax
1-902-420-0566
Stepping Stone
A charitable organization that provides services and support to current and former sex workers, people at risk of entering the sex trade, and people who identify as being trafficked. Services include a community drop-in, court support, the Active Bodies Active Lives & Healthy Bodies Healthy Lives programs, a network of community workers from all sectors of the sex industry across the country, and more. They offer a street outreach program 3 nights a week and offer information, condoms, lube, food, and the bad date list to folks working.
9 Ferguson Road, Dartmouth
1-902-420-0103
1-902-448-3733 (outreach)
Kathleen.pyke@steppingstonens.ca
Provincial Mental Health and Addictions Crisis Line
Also known as “Mobile Crisis Team” in Central Nova Scotia, this line provides crisis intervention for children, youth and adults experiencing a mental health crisis or mental distress. The service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to support callers who present with suicidal thoughts, self-harming thoughts or behaviours, overwhelming anxiety, difficulty coping with distress, psychotic or distorted thinking, depression, substance use difficulties or any other self-identified mental health concerns. The Mobile Crisis Team can make home visits in the Halifax area, please note police will always accompany the team to every home visit.
Provincial Mental Health and Addictions Crisis Line:
1-902-429-8167
1-888-429-8167 (toll free)
Mental Health and Addictions Intake Service:
1-855-922-1122
Mobile Outreach Street Health (MOSH)
MOSH provides accessible primary health care services to people who are experiencing homelessness, insecurely housed, street involved and underserved in our community. The MOSH team is a collaborative primary health care team of registered nurses, nurse practitioners, an occupational therapist, physicians and administrative support.
500-2131 Gottingen Street, Halifax
1-902-830-3853 (main line)
1-902-429-0859 (reception)
moshlead@nechc.com
Nova Scotia Transition & Advocacy for Youth (NSTAY)
NSTAY is a program which provides exploited/trafficked youth with wraparound support and connects them with the services they need. NSTAY has been developed with a trauma-informed lens and takes a harm-reduction approach. Services include peer support, housing support, court support, employment and education counselling, a emergency transitional housing program for victims of sexual exploitation and human trafficking, and more.
Halifax Regional Municipality Region
NSTAY@YWCAHalifax.com
Healing Our Nations
“We are here to teach and support our people in the prevention of HIV/AIDS and related issues such as; healthy Sexuality, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Hepatitis ABC, and co-infections, in a manner that is respectful to our Aboriginal ways of life. We are guided on this mission by the people we help”. Services include workshops on cultural competence/awareness, sexual health education, substance misuse, how to talk to your kids about sex & sexuality, Inter-generational trauma and Residential Schools, Aboriginal Women and Addictions, and so much more.
31 Gloster Court, Dartmouth
1-902-492-4255|
1-800-565-4255 (toll free)
healingournationsed@outlook.com
UNtoxicated Queers
Part-support group, part-sober events, part-harm reduction initiative, and 100% queer. They come together to support, connect and hold space for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks to chat about problematic substance use and addictive behaviours of all kinds.
Peer Outreach Support Services & Education (POSSE)
A youth-driven, harm reduction and human rights training and peer outreach project, for youth between the ages of 15-30. POSSE educates youth to become peer outreach workers within their community. Trained youth then assist and educate their peers, reaching youth where they’re at, during street-level outreach, regarding violence, homelessness, harm reduction, substance use, sexual health, exploitation, human trafficking, human rights, and sexualized violence.
10 King Street, Windsor
1-902-799-0752
info@posseproject.ca