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Methadone/Bupe Clinic Outreach & Syringe Exchange Program Based Fixed Site Outreach

• Enroll SSP participants
• Provide legal information on harm reduction laws
• Distribute naloxone kits
• Distribute syringes and other sterile supplies and collect used syringes in biohazard bins
• Refer people to harm reduction programs and other health/legal/housing programs

Street Outreach

• Participate in a mix of street and fixed site based harm reduction outreach
• Make sure outreach work meets program deliverables set by the supervisor
• Report on outreach deliverables to supervisor
• Provide access to syringe exchange supplies
• Provide access to overdose prevention materials + naloxone
• Provide legal information on harm reduction laws
• Advertise outreach activities to directly impacted people
• Be culturally aware of people who use drugs and respect their decisions
• Provide community-based STI/HIV/viral hepatitis prevention education, MSM, drug users, sex workers, and those at high risk of getting a sexually transmitted infection
• Provide safer drug use and safer sexual health education
• Provide detox and substance abuse referrals
• Distribute STI/HIV/HCV prevention materials
• Document every contact and item distributed
• Provide information about HIV/STI care and treatment services

Drug User Organizing

• We are a chapter of Urban Survivors Union, the national drug user union. Refer interested people to drug user organizers and drug user unions ( Urban Survivors Union).

If approved by supervisor and outreach worker has appropriate training

• Council, test, and refer HIV positive individuals to local ASO
• Council, test and refer HCV positive individuals to a local viral hepatitis service provider
• Council, test and refer STI positive individuals to the local health department for care

If approved by supervisor and outreach worker has appropriate training

• To provide STI/HIV/HCV and other health-related information and education on a one-to-one basis and in group sessions

If approved by supervisor and outreach worker has appropriate training

• Assist agency with social media outreach
• Attend in-house workshops and training seminars for staff as well as external training as assigned

Attend any and all coalition, advisory, and/or training meetings assigned.

• Attend coalition meetings
• Center for Popular Democracy
• NCSU training meetings

• Knowledge about STIs, HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis and drug use is required.
• Must maintain professional boundaries while working with sensitive issues and must be comfortable working with diverse groups of people using a harm reduction framework.
• Must demonstrate strong communication skills.
• Must be able to work flexible hours.
• Applicant must be comfortable with a harm reduction framework.
• Must be interested in ongoing learning of Harm Reduction.