Overdose Prevention Day
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Overdose prevention Site
Public/Private: Public
Individual/Organisation: Organisation
Name of Organisation: Squamish Helping Hands Society
Contact: Michelle Balch
Phone: 604-567-9220
Email: mbalch@shhs.ca
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There will be a memorial event from 1:00-2:00pm outside the OPS. Squamish Nation will be there to offer a welcome and opening prayer, there will be a memorial space to write a note or lay a flower for those lost, and the peer advocacy group will be there to talk with people and offer naloxone training.
There will also be a BBQ lunch from 12-1.
Separately from the afternoon event, there will be a film showing in the library community room at 4:45pm of ‘Love in the Time of Fentanyl”, which you can RSVP to me about if you want to come.
“As deaths in Vancouver, Canada reach an all-time high, the Overdose Prevention Society opens its doors – a renegade supervised drug consumption site that employs active and former drug users. It’s staff and volunteers do whatever it takes to save lives and give hope to a marginalized community in this intimate documentary that looks beyond the stigma or people who use fentanyl and other drugs.”