Public Health and harm reduction share the following overlapping principles, (usually in the presence of limited financial resources):
Health protection - protection against infectious diseases and environmental threats
Health improvement - target individual behavior or promote health by education and/or policy change
Healthcare services - provide, analyze and improve/optimize healthcare services; "meet people where they’re at"
ROPES
Opportunities for better health. Stigma-free health services for people who use drugs.
Ropes are tiny strands of different materials, bound together, more and more, getting thicker, intertwined, becoming stronger. There is a beginning and an end which can twist, knot, form a link, carry a heavy load, cut some slack or be stretched to the limit.
The Rural Opioid Prevention Education and Support (ROPES) project is a federally and locally funded grant program using evidence-based practices to better serve people affected by Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and the disease of addiction.
Project Goals:
Prevent and reduce the progression of substance abuse and infectious disease
Reduce the stigma surrounding addiction
Strengthen harm reduction, treatment, and recovery capacity/infrastructure at the community level
Project Services:
Recovery/Peer Support
Medication Assisted Treatment
Syringe Exchange
Overdose Prevention Education
Rapid Testing for Infectious Disease
Safer Sex Education
Referral to Treatment
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