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Health unit and community partners receive Health Canada Grant

The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit and its community partners are recipients of a three year Health Canada Substance Use and Addictions Program grant.

The health unit says this grant provides the opportunity to apply for funding in:

  • Harm Reduction, Community-Led and Front-line Initiatives
  • Increasing Access to Pharmaceutical – Grade Medications
  • New Approaches to Address Methamphetamine Use

The health unit has hired two  Harm Reduction Community Support Navigators (CSNs) because of the grant. The CSNs provide outreach peer to peer support to people who use substances, distribute harm reduction supplies, help link health care providers/community partners and people who use substances, and engage with community partners around harm reduction and substance use, according to the health unit. The secondary role of the CSNs is to engage with people who use substances as well as service providers from across LGL to identify challenges, barriers and areas for improvement in accessing and retaining people who use substances  in LGL services.  The health  unit adds the overall goal of the project is to decrease community stigma and discrimination towards people who use substances, and improve navigation of local resources and increase access to services by people who use substances as well as their families and friends.

For more information on the Harm Reduction Community Support Navigators or the Health Canada Substance Use and Addictions grant contact Jennifer Adams RN, Harm Reduction Coordinator,  at 613 283-2740 extension 2415 or [email protected].

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