About
Since 2020, CID CO team has provided regular outreach and rapid response aid for COVID-19, smoke, and heat to over 300 residents living across 6 encampments in the CID.
The majority of people who are unhoused identify as BIPOC, elders, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, veterans, sex workers, and have low English proficiency.
We uplift community stories and experiences on impacts by addressing the urgent need for community-driven solutions, resources, and interventions, that are effective for reducing harmful impacts. We bridge community-level and governmental responses and build preparedness. We believe that those who are most affected have the solutions and should have their voices heard.
Advocacy
Overcoming societal stigmas around being unhoused, queer or a sex worker requires support and access to resources. We invite you to reach out if we can collaborate and aid you.
Harm reduction
To borrow from National Harm reduction Coalition “Harm reduction incorporates a spectrum of strategies that includes safer use, managed use, abstinence, meeting people who use drugs “where they’re at,” and addressing conditions of use along with the use itself. Because harm reduction demands that interventions and policies designed to serve people who use drugs reflect specific individual and community needs, there is no universal definition of or formula for implementing harm reduction.”