Activities 2020

Grampians Community Health are hanging purple lights aorund all of their sites.

They have also relased their first Podcast – Community Is Our Middle Name. The first episode focuses on International Overdose Awareness day and the importance of having this conversation. The host speaks with Emma our Non Residential Withdrawal Nurse.

The plan for the event will be:
• An introduction to International Overdose Awareness Day including its history and this year’s theme “A time to remember a time to act”
• A naloxone training Session
• Staff stories
• Reflective song

Health Works will this year be promoting and providing naloxone training and access for all PWID’s, family and friends.
We will have the silber badges and purple wrist bands to hand out, and cardboard purple stars for people to write either the name of a loved one who has passed from a drug overdose, or a memorial message.These will be displayed in our courtyard outside the NSP on a perspex board.

These activities will take place ALL WEEK from the Monday 30th.

We are also promoting both the HRVic on-line training this Friday 27th @ 4pm and the First Step on-line training on Monday 30th @ 5pm to our clients.
As a special treat on Tuesday 31st and Wednesday 1st Sept. we will have cupcakes and muffins to give out to clients that will have edible messages on top about overdose prevention.

Join us for this event online Monday 6 September commencing at 7.30pm www.ydhf.org.au

What International Overdose Awareness Day means to me – hear personal accounts from family and friends of people who have died of overdose, politicians, peer workers and others about what this day means to them.

For more information about International Overdose Awareness Day visit

International Overdose Awareness Day

Social media campaign

Virtual morning tea, memorials, information sharing re safe use and OD prevention, candle lighting for staff in ACSOs AOD intake, assessment and treatment teams.

For International Overdose Awareness Day 2021 Access Health and 24/7 NSP will be handing out small care packages to the community to acknowledge those who have lost a loved one to overdose and to say thank you to those who have engaged in harm reduction, to those who have reversed an overdose and to those who have engaged in conversations/education to prevent and reduce drug-related harm.

Access Health and 24/7 NSP stand in remembrance of those who have died due to overdose and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind.

SHARC invites you to join us virtually to share in memory, reflection, education and community.
We also ask that all attendees bring a candle which you will be invited to light during the event.

The 5th Annual World’s Largest Overdose Prevention Training will include a deep dive into overdose: who is vulnerable, how it happens, what to look out for. We will then walk you through what to do in the event of an overdose and finish with some words from the folks at SHARC (Self Help Addiction Resource Centre)

Who is it for? Suitable for anyone likely to witness an overdose: family, friends, people living in areas of high drug use, sector workers, students of AOD etc.

Supported by: First Step, Penington Institute, Star Health, Launch Housing, Salvation Army/Access Health, St.Kilda Gatehouse, Windana, Alfred Health (South City Clinic), Whitelion, Harm Reduction Victoria and SHARC (Family Drug Help)

The Women’s Leadership Group is holding a vigil on International Overdose Awareness Day for the many we’ve lost, and continue to lose, to drug overdose.

Jazzy, one of the group’s original members, is one of those, and died within days of exiting custody.

This event will:

• Focus on women. They are underrepresented in this conversation. Due to criminalisation, stigma and shame, our women are dying in the shadows and often their stories are either whitewashed or not told.

• Memorialise their deaths and celebrate their lives – they are not just how their story ended.

• Speak to the necessity of drug decriminalisation – Government policy neglects women’s health in favour of criminalising them.

• Pay tribute to the costs this exacts on partners, children, family members, friends, acquaintances, and community.

Speakers to be announced.

The Women’s Leadership Group

The Women’s Leadership Group is an advocacy group composed of women with expert experience of incarceration and criminalisation. The group’s mandate is to undertake systemic advocacy aimed at challenging the inherent harms of the criminal justice system and connected social sector, as it relates to incarcerated and criminalised women.

Fitzroy Legal Service

We work towards a fairer and more just Victorian community, one in which the legal and broader social system supports equity and justice.

Home

peer based, online session covering when and how to administer naloxone. Free naloxone kits for those who participate.

-Albury, Wodonga and Wangaratta council are lighting a monument purple in each city center.
-Media campaign (local news, radio and new paper’s)
-social media release- via gateway health website, Facebook and Instagram pages

Melbourne Town Hall will be lit purple, in honour and remembrance of those who have died due to overdose and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind.

Bolte Bridge will be lit purple, in honour and remembrance of those who have died due to overdose and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind.

Flinders St Station will be lit purple, in honour and remembrance of those who have died due to overdose and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind.

AAMI Park will be lit purple, in honour and remembrance of those who have died due to overdose and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind.