In episode four of our minisode miniseries, we sit down with Haley Coles from ACLU from Sonoran Prevention Works (SPW). SPW received a $125,000 grant to support advocacy and education for syringe access programs – a proven harm reduction strategy in response to the opioid crisis and rising hepatitis-C and HIV infection rates.
Specifically, Sonoran Prevention Works is working to transform the response to the opioid crisis away from a perspective of pure criminalization to a framework focused on public health – and they are doing so by partnering with the University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, Creosote Partners and Shot in the Dark to destigmatize syringe access programs and understand the comprehensive needs of people who inject drugs. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is also working with Sonoran Prevention Works to implement a needle stick prevention program and to educate law enforcement on injection drug use.
Listen today and learn what Haley means when she says “…it’s not about overdose. At the end of the day what kills people is stigma.”
Sonoran Prevention Works website: https://spwaz.org/
Sonoran Prevention Works Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sonoranpreventionworks/
2018 Innovation Grants web page: http://vitalysthealth.org/grants-2018/
Previous Innovation Grants minisodes:
E17: Community Wealth Partners - Part 1
E16: The Live Well Arizona Incubator - Part 4: Better Together Southern Arizona Coalition
E15: The Live Well Arizona Incubator - Part 3: Cobre Valley Collaborative
E14: The Live Well Arizona Incubator - Part 2: Coffee Pot Farms
E13: The Live Well Arizona Incubator - Part 1: South Mountain WORKS Coalition
E12: The Continuum of Housing and Health - Part 2
E11: The Continuum of Housing and Health - Part 1
E9: Meet Demand to Learn (2018 Innovation Grants Minisode Miniseries Episode 3)
E8: Meet Ndee Bikiyaa (2018 Innovation Grants Minisode Miniseries Episode 2)
E7: Meet Flowers & Bullets Collective (2018 Innovation Grants Minisode Miniseries Episode 1)
E6: In Conversation: The Farm at Los Olivos Park
E5: Minisode! Year of Healthy Communities Wrap-Up, The Good Life, Northern Arizona University, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, Obamacare Results
E4: Cover Arizona: Meet the People Behind the Connector
E3: Minisode! Obamacare, Piper Trust, Health Affairs, City of Tempe, City of Bisbee
E2: Transportation in Our Daily Lives
E1: Vitalyst Spark Teaser
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