Synthetic Opioid key responses
- Mapping evidence-based key responses to synthetic opioids and their implementation strategies
- Field-tested Toolkit with seven implementation guides
Street Support - National Report Spain
For the Street Support project, each partner organization complied a Country Report with relevant information regarding the situation on homelessness, alcohol, and drug use in their countries. Complementing this overview, these reports offer an overview of current interventions on national level targeting alcohol and drug-related nuisance, and the impact of those policies, programmes and approaches. Building upon this research, recommendations are offered for the implementation – or further development – or inclusive strategies with the capacity to reduce the so-called public nuisances.
Street Support - Local Pilot Intervention Czech Republic
In their local intervention, Společnost Podané Ruce focused on the involvement and meaningful participation of people who use drugs with health and social services. Specifically, they supported the creation of a peer group that nowadays counts with six employed participants and a variable number of volunteers. Examples of the activities they implemented are needle patrols, the development and distribution of a city guide for rough sleepers, the organization of leisure programs for other people who use drugs, or the co-creation of new social and health service in the area, such as the “Wet Day Center”.
Street Support - Local Pilot Intervention Germany
Fixpunkt, a local NGO in Berlin, developed its local action plan at the Görlitzer Park, a well-known area in which gentrification processes overlap with those of migration, and drug use in public space. As an organization with expertise in community-oriented harm reduction, they developed an intervention that was able to respond to the needs for health and safety of all of the community members in the park: newer and older property owners, migrants experiencing homeless, those who also sell drugs, and the ones who purchase them.
Street Support - Local Pilot Intervention Ireland
In recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of people experiencing homeless that engage in problematic drug use in Cork. Aiming at supporting this community, Cork Simon’s implemented ‘Safer Saturdays’, a low-threshold initiative offering a range of services which were currently not available, such as needle exchange service, First Aid & Naloxone administration training, or referrals to Housing First, training and employment programmes.
Street Support - Local Pilot Intervention Spain
With their local intervention plan, Fundació Salut i Comunitat implemented the first Housing First program in the municipality of Castelló de la Plana. Through this intervention, the Street Support Partner not only was able to support and to contribute to the overall well-being of people experiencing homelessness and/or use drugs or alcohol in public space. As a consequence of this project, the public nuisance was tackled, and the organization could raise awareness of the need to promote social and housing policies for people experiencing residential exclusion.
Street Support - Good Practice Collection
Street Support’s Good Practice Collection makes a substantial contribution to improve current service provision for people experiencing homelessness who use drugs and/or alcohol in public spaces. The good practice examples aim at inspiring professionals and policy makers by offering concrete examples which promote social inclusion.
Street Support - Tool Box
This document provides tools and guidance to develop and implement participatory and inclusive interventions, addressing people consuming alcohol and/or drugs in public space. These interventions aim to improve the overall health and social situation of the target group, provide adult learning and work integration opportunities and contribute at the same time to the social inclusion of marginalised groups and the reduction of alcohol and drug related nuisance in the public space.
Prison needle and syringe programmes (PNSP)
This course aims to provide information and practical guidance to support the implementation of NSP in prisons and other closed settings. The course presents models of PNSP that have been tried and evaluated around the world, and provides recommendations and practical advice on advocating, starting, scaling up and monitoring PNSP. The intended audience for this course includes prison governors, administrators and staff, health-care managers and programme coordinators at all levels across all types of custodial institutions, prison administrations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and trade union officials.
Needle Exchange in Berlin - in prison and in society
Short video showing safe needle exchange machine in a prison in Berlin, and a syringe & needle dispenser on a street.
Exercise "Needle sharing and drug-sharing"
In these exercises, the risks of sharing drugs, needles, syringes and paraphernalia are tackled. Different techniques of sharing drugs –hazardous or non-hazardous ones are examined
