Essential Tools and Training
This episode promises to equip you with the knowledge and tools that are saving lives every day.
Join us as we sit down with Jessica Sorbello, project director of Project COPE, to uncover the groundbreaking work being done to support New York State's most vulnerable populations, including those in domestic violence shelters.
From distributing naloxone kits and test strips to providing essential hygiene products, Jessica shares the comprehensive approach Project COPE takes to make crucial addiction services accessible. Learn how collaboration between OASAS and other state agencies is breaking down barriers and ensuring help is available without needing to explicitly ask for it.
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We've really spent the last two years of the project working to collaborate with Office of Prevention for Domestic Violence and then Office of Children and Family Services, and we're collaborating between the three state agencies to be able to put overdose rescue kits oftentimes referred to as Nalox boxes in all state licensed domestic violence shelters, and these boxes are unlocked and they're wall mounted and it allows folks who need or would benefit from having Naloxone to take it free of charge, free of judgment and free of having to ask. Because we also know in some of these marginalized communities, the need to ask in itself is sometimes the biggest barrier.
Project COPE Director Jessica Sorbello