Faith-Based Harm Reduction: Radical Acts of Love
We are about one mission:
Extending Hope.
Extending Life.
Faith-Based Harm Reduction: Radical Acts of Love
We are about one mission:
Extending Hope.
Extending Life.
We are about one mission:
Extending Hope.
Extending Life.
We are about one mission:
Extending Hope.
Extending Life.
Olive Branch Ministry is a faith-based harm reduction outreach organization, based in the Foothills of NC and was founded in 2009 by Michelle Mathis and Karen Lowe becoming a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 2015.
Olive Branch partners with local human service organizations, faith communities, hospitals, mental and public health agencies, and private corporations and citizens to work with those in need of harm reduction services.
Our desire is to extend hope and extend life through non judgmental interactions with those we are called to serve.
The following information is cited from Harm Reduction Coalition:
Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use. Harm Reduction is also a movement for social justice built on a belief in, and respect for, the rights of people who use drugs.
Harm reduction incorporates a spectrum of strategies from safer use, to managed use to abstinence to meet drug users “where they’re at,” addressing conditions of use along with the use itself. Because harm reduction demands that interventions and policies designed to serve drug users reflect specific individual and community needs, there is no universal definition of or formula for implementing harm reduction.
However, HRC considers the following principles central to harm reduction practice:
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Olive Branch Ministry partnered with the Gaston Substance Controlled Coalition and Faith Fighting Addiction to host an International Overdose Awareness Day Event (IOAD) for 2019 in Gaston County, N.C. People at the event were given index cards to write encouraging words and affirmations to give to those who experience overdose and have been resuscitated by Narcan/Naloxone. Once the participants wrote on their cards, they were asked to come forward and hang them on the Tree of HOPE. The Gaston County Opioid Overdose Response Team (OORT) is responsible for getting the cards to the individuals.
Check out this video to get a glimpse of our community honoring somebody's someone!
Just recently, the OORT mailed some of the purple index cards with encouraging letters to the folks who have been resuscitated by Narcan/Naloxone in our community.
Your support and contributions will enable us to extend hope and extend life. Your generous donation will fund our mission.
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