Goals
- Ensure awareness, accountability to harm reduction best practices, and commitment to delivering on the harm reduction services prescribed by the Ontario Public Health Standards and offered in the North Bay Parry Sound District.
- Maximize opportunities for advocacy, education, and augmentation of services in the North Bay Parry Sound District in their response to the opioid crisis and the needs of people who use substances.
- Incorporate more anti-stigma initiatives related to individuals who use substances, through community education and awareness in the North Bay Parry Sound District.
Contact
For general inquiries about harm reduction at the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit, contact harm.reduction@healthunit.ca.
We thank you for your potential interest, however, this Community of Practice is specific to community partners offering an NSP service in the district of North Bay Parry Sound in collaboration with our Health Unit, and is therefore not relevant to folks outside of this area.
Check out the rest of EENet's CoIs/CoPs here: https://kmb.camh.ca/eenet/communities.
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