Updated: July 2, 2024
Initiative
Expansion of NYS Drug User Health Hubs and Syringe Service Programs
Award Period
10/1/2023 to 9/30/2025
Total Amount for Initiative
$12,590,000 over two years
Number of Awards
25
NYS Department Of Health Drug User Health/Syringe Service Programs
Overview
The New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute contracts with 25 community-based organizations designated as Syringe Exchange Programs in New York State to provide additional drug user health services.
Syringe Exchange Programs were established in 1992 to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in injection drug users, provide comprehensive harm reduction prevention services. To become a Syringe Exchange Program, an organization must complete a lengthy process to be authorized by the New York State Department of Health Commissioner in order to distribute syringes to, and collect from, those who inject drugs. These new contracts expanded Syringe Exchange Program/Drug User Health Hub coverage areas and services provided, including adding mental health, medications for opioid use disorder and reproductive health care education/counseling, to the array of services being provided.
Below is a table of agencies and their annual award amount:
| Priority Area | NYS Region | Agency | Award Amount |
| Harm Reduction & Priority Population | Southern Tier | Addiction Center of Broome County, Inc. | $150,100 |
| Harm Reduction & Priority Population | New York City | AIDS Center of Queens County, Inc. | $150,100 |
| Harm Reduction, Priority Populations & Across the Service Continuum | Central | AIDS Community Resources, Inc. | $325,000 |
| Harm Reduction, Priority Populations & Across the Service Continuum | Capital District | AIDS Council of Northeastern New York, Inc./ Alliance for Positive Health | $250,100 |
| Harm Reduction & Priority Populations | New York City | AIDS Service Center of Lower Manhattan, Inc. | $225,000 |
| Harm Reduction & Priority Populations | New York City | BOOM! Health | $266,000 |
| Harm Reduction, Priority Populations & Across the Service Continuum | Capital District | Catholic Charities AIDS Services | $325,000 |
| Harm Reduction, Priority Populations & Across the Service Continuum | Long Island | Community Action for Social Justice, Inc. | $325,000 |
| Harm Reduction & Priority Populations | New York City | Community Health Action of Staten Island, Inc. | $190,500 |
| Harm Reduction, Priority Populations & Across the Service Continuum | Hudson Region | Cornerstone Family Healthcare | $290,500 |
| Harm Reduction, Priority Populations & Across the Service Continuum | Western | EHS, Inc. | $366,000 |
| Harm Reduction & Priority Populations | New York City | Family Services Network of New York, Inc. | $225,000 |
| Harm Reduction & Priority Populations | New York City | Harlem United Community AIDS Center, Inc. | $190,500 |
| Harm Reduction & Priority Populations | New York City | Housing Works, Inc. | $190,500 |
| Harm Reduction & Priority Populations | New York City | National Harm Reduction Coalition (on behalf of Bronx Móvil) | $190,500 |
| Harm Reduction, Priority Populations & Across the Service Continuum | New York City | NEXT Harm Reduction, Inc. | $250,100 |
| Harm Reduction & Priority Populations | New York City | OnPoint NYC, Inc. | $532,000 |
| Harm Reduction & Priority Populations | New York City | Positive Health Project, Inc. | $190,500 |
| Harm Reduction & Priority Populations | New York City | Safe Horizon, Inc. | $150,100 |
| Harm Reduction, Priority Populations & Across the Service Continuum | Southern Tier | Southern Tier AIDS Program, Inc. | $366,000 |
| Harm Reduction, Priority Populations & Across the Service Continuum | New York City | St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction, Inc. | $225,000 |
| Harm Reduction & Priority Populations | New York City | The After Hours Project, Inc. | $190,500 |
| Harm Reduction, Priority Populations & Across the Service Continuum | Rochester | Trillium Health, Inc. | $290,500 |
| Harm Reduction, Priority Populations & Across the Service Continuum | Lower Hudson | Urban League of Westchester County, Inc. | $250,100 |
| Harm Reduction & Priority Populations | New York City | Voices of Community Activists & Leaders | $190,500 |