SCS announced for Victoria - and what's next
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 November 2016 12:15
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Today's the day: we finally have a commitment from the Island Health Authority that they will be implementing supervised injection services in Victoria next year. So much has brought us to this place.
▪ ▪ We want to honour the lives of people who have been fighting for these services and who are no longer with us. We know their names, we loved them and cared about them, and they were a part of our community. In so many ways, they were failed by a system that criminalizes, dehumanizes, stigmatizes and shuts out.▪ ▪ We want to reaffirm today that harm reduction is about love, inclusion, intersectionality, justice, empathy and revolution.
▪ ▪ We want to reaffirm that the leadership of people who use currently illicit drugs and particularly those isolated and shunned through systems of race, class and gender, must be at the centre of all our efforts to increase access to care, to continue building resilient and loving communities, and to ending the War on People Who Use Drugs.
Things you can do:
▪ ▪ Please fill out Island Health's online survey and voice your support for SCS in our community. Survey is live until December 2.▪ ▪ Please attend Island Health's public feedback open houses: show up to support the highest quality services possible for people who use drugs in our community.
▪ ▪ Please visit the SOLID Society of Living Illicit Drug Users webpage to read more about what people who use drugs want from health services in our community. This includes a list of pragmatic demands for what immediate interim measures to address the current overdose crisis should include.
Finally thank you to all of you for your steadfast support of this campaign. In some ways, our collective work is just beginning. We're going to need your voices to make sure that these services are implemented in OUR community as soon as possible.
Stay tuned for upcoming events and more pressure for the types of quality health services we need for our communities.
yes2scs is a community campaign to ensure SCS are established and operating in Victoria in 2016. Our commitments include:
* facilitating a process to ensure adequate funding, appropriate services and locations, and a service provider who makes certain these services are trauma informed and culturally safe.
* continuing our work on the Federal Exemption process.
* continuing to work with all levels of government and key stakeholders on this goal and timeframe.
* ensuring people who use illicit drugs and organizations of people who use drugs are fully involved in these processes.
* recognizing the limits of SCS to prevent all OD deaths by continuing to respond to the harm caused by the criminalization of people who use drugs.
Support the implementation of supervised consumption services in Victoria
* Send letters to provincial officials to call for a clear funding commitment for this service
* Join our growing list of supportive organizations
* Show your individual support by uploading a 'I support' photo
* Visit our website for resources about SCS
* Like and share content from our Facebook Page
* Follow us and re-tweet us on Twitter
* Email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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