Kentucky Harm Reduction Coalition

Reduced substance addiction overdoses and deaths by providing medical kits containing drugs that block the effects of opiates; educating and training users and providers, and consulting on distribution programs.

Offer naloxone overdose reversal training online and mail-based naloxone distribution to reduce opioid overdose deaths, prevent injection-related disease transmission, and improve the lives of people who use drugs who reside in counties outside of jefferson county and in the outskirts of jefferson county.

Mobile outreach supporting the community by providing Harm Reduction services such as increased access to naloxone, Harm Reduction supplies, education and supplies, syringe service programs, and access to onsite medication for opioid use disorder (moud) telehealth. The moud services including psychiatric care, case management, access to treatment for substance use disorder (sud), family support services, and education. The Kentucky Harm Reduction coalition works in conjuction with the Louisville recovery community connection, seven counties services, and the university of Louisville school of medicine department of psychiatry.

Syringe services programs help stop the spread of infectious diseases such as hcv and hiv in a community by providing new, sterile syringes and clean injection equipment