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Overdose Reversal Kits

$1,443.13

Raised

Donations

$1,000

Goal

As many of you know, in 2021, we opened the Johnson Health Center. This is a 501c3 nonprofit medical practice that offers low barrier access to to addiction services and primary care. Our philosophy has been one of radical acceptance, easy access to care and harm reduction. We started very small and I worked out of a single office that a community partner generously donated. This was a leap of faith and one that included my husband, Geoff, moving back to construction to keep us afloat.

Last November, we moved into our new space in downtown Johnson. Again, we had incredible support from our community partners to make this happen. At the time of our move, we had a total of 36 patients. Since this time, we have grown our team and our the group of patients- we now have 280 patients, and have added key players to our own team. (Including promoting Geoff from our #1 volunteer to Executive Director). We have worked (pretty much 24/7) to make our practice different. We strive to be accessible, nonjudgmental and work to help people move towards "safer", all while knowing that every person makes those steps on their own path and at their own pace. The idea is that each step toward safer is an incremental step towards being the person who you really are and having unconditional support along the journey.

Earlier this year we were given the chance to gave a matching grant of $50,000. This has been huge as most of what we have done with the JHC has been funded by our own contributions.

In all that we have done over the last few years, fundraising has felt the most daunting for me personally. It taps into many insecurities and feels like I am a kid waiting to see if anyone will show up at my birthday party. For this reason, fundraising has been something I keep thinking I will "start tomorrow". And tomorrow, is today.

One of our missions at the JHC has been to normalize naloxone (the reversal agent for opioid overdose). Our hope is that we can decrease fatal and nonfatal overdoses by increasing access to naloxone and encouraging everyone to carry it. Naloxone is safe, easy to use and and saves lives.

At the JHC we offer handy overdose reversal kits that contain 2 doses of naloxone (given in the nose), information about how to recognize an overdose, and easy, picture guided instructions on how to use naloxone, gloves, a rescue breathing mask, and information about where to get help. All of this comes in an easy to carry "to go" box.

The naloxone is donated by UVM CORA (Center on Rural Addiction) but the rest of the supplies are provided by us and have a total cost of about $10 each.

My ask is a to consider a small donation that will help us reach our big goal of $50,000 and allow us to continue to normalize naloxone with our overdose reversal kits. Each Kit we can supply is a potential life saved and incredibly important to us so we can continue to offer these services.

Thank you for your consideration and generosity.