This free service provides clean injecting equipment for people who inject drugs, together with health information and referral to other services. This service also provides naloxone, which reverses the effects of opioid overdose.
It is available to people who inject drugs in northern Melbourne. The service comes to you every night of the week, all year round, between 7.30pm and 11.30pm.
To book call 0418 545 789 between 7.30pm and 11.15pm.
Clean injecting equipment and health information is also available at our three health centres in East Reservoir, Northcote and Preston (PANCH) from 9am-5pm Monday to Friday.
There are no fees or waiting lists for this service.
We also offer pharmacotherapy and steroid education services. This is all part of our commitment to reduce the potential harm caused by alcohol and drug use.
Program Refresh of Your Community Health’s Needle Syringe Programs
Your Community Health recently reviewed its Needle and Syringe Outreach Program across Melbourne’s North. The review highlighted a range of strengths and development areas for the program, including:
- Strong support from clients and staff for the current outreach service models.
- Cost-effective distribution of injecting equipment, well under the NSP average cost.
- Positive feedback from clients with 100 percent agreeing that staff treated them with respect and dignity.
- Difficulties for night outreach staff to effectively engage with stakeholders.
- Opportunities to develop and implement lived and living experience models of support.
- Opportunities to trial new models of harm reduction delivery, including secure dispensing units and low threshold pick-ups at fixed sites
- Consider restructuring program including increasing resources for stakeholder engagement and client referrals
We’re committed to implementing all thirteen recommendations from this review and are currently developing an implementation plan.
You can read the full report, including the Executive Summary, here.
Thank you to our clients, staff and stakeholders who provided their valuable feedback and insights.