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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
SAMHSA’s mission is to lead public health and service delivery efforts that promote mental health, prevent substance misuse, and provide treatments and supports to foster recovery while ensuring equitable access and better outcomes.
https://www.samhsa.gov/

Smoke Works
​Smoke Works promotes injection alternatives by streamlining procurement, ensuring all harm reduction agencies have access to pipes for the people they serve. Our needs based pricing allows your purchase to underwrite discounts and donations of safer-use supplies to underfunded harm reduction programs.
https://smokeworkspipes.com

​Bronx Móvil 
​Bronx Móvil is a mobile ham reduction organization that provides bilingual (Spanish/English) harm reduction and related  health promotion to people who use drugs, including injecting drugs, and who are unhoused and experiencing housing insecurity in The Bronx and neighboring areas. In the city that never sleeps, harm reduction must be 24/7 and culturally and linguistically centered.
Hours of operation: variable by season; in general, Saturday evenings and nights, Sunday days and Holidays, including federal ones. 
[email protected]
Instagram: @bronxmovil
917-200-0358

Curing your Patients from Hepatitis C: Addressing Complex Needs with Simplified Treatment Approaches : Episode 4
 https://www.hcplive.com/view/baseline-lab-test-to-initiate-hcv-treatment
Candidates for HCV Treatment
https://www.contagionlive.com/view/candidates-for-hcv-treatment
Baseline Lab Test to initiate HCV treatment
https://www.hcplive.com/view/baseline-lab-test-to-initiate-hcv-treatment

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National Harm Reduction Technical Assistance Center
CDC released a new communication resource for Syringe Service Programs (SSPs). The SSP communication toolkit
https://harmreductionhelp.cdc.gov/s/

International Networks on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users (INHSU)
global network dedicated to improving the health of people who use drugs, with a specific focus on hepatitis C, infectious diseases, and harms that can occur from drug use.
www.inhsu.org

Words Matter! Language Statement & Reference Guide
Compiled by INPUD and the Asian Network of People who Use Drugs (ANPUD), this guide aims to explain our current position on the use of language and to provide clear advice on what is acceptable to us as communities of people who use drugs. 
https://inpud.net/words-matter-language-statement-reference-guide/

Language Matters: Conversations about alcohol and other drugs
In this short film, we delve into the topic of stigma and discrimination and discuss the important role of language. Thank you to Matthew Bonn, Louise Hansford, and Annie Madden for taking part in this project.
https://youtu.be/F-YdkqjPals
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NEXT Distro
An online and mail-based harm reduction platform designed to reduce opioid overdose death, prevent injection-related disease transmission, and improve the lives of people who use drugs. NEXT distributes all the supplies one would find at a in-person syringe access program including syringes, hazardous waste disposal tools, fentanyl test strips, as well as safer injection, safer smoking, and safer sex supplies. NEXT also operates an online and mail-based naloxone distribution program which can be found at www.nextdistro.org/naloxone
https://nextdistro.org

IDUHA
The Injection Drug Users Health Alliance is a coalition of harm reduction providers across the five boroughs of New York City. IDUHA works to promote and implement strategies that prevent the spread of diseases such as HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis C, prevent death by overdose and disease, support healthy behaviors, and facilitate participants into medical care, mental health care, and drug treatment.
https://iduha.org/nyc-sep-map

BUPRENORPHINE 
Buprenorphine treatment via telemedicine is available. H+H is initiating treatment via telemedicine, learn more. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6650403775284555776

NORTH AMERICA SYRINGE EXCHANGE NETWORK​ (NASEN)
Saving lives by connecting people and programs with the resources they need to reduce harm
https://www.nasen.org/
LGbTQ+ resources

The National LGBT Health Education Center
Educational programs, resources, and consultation to health care organizations with the goal of optimizing quality, cost-effective health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and all sexual and gender minority (LGBTQIA+) people.
www.lgbthealtheducation.org

TransGender/ Non-Conforming Identities Resources Packet
Presentation by Shira Helena Gitlin on the History of transgender and non conforming identities, the importance of inclusive and respectful language, as well as other resources regarding continued learning.
​TGNC Identities

TLDEF's Trans Health Project 
The Trans Health Project takes a comprehensive, systematic approach to expanding access to transgender-related health care by educating affected individuals about their legal rights; cultivating a robust movement to achieve health care equity; expanding enforcement of existing legal protections; and driving clinical policy changes among insurance carriers.
Trans Health Care Providers
https://transhealthproject.org/resources/trans-health-care-providers/

Trans Lifeline
The first ever Transgender suicide hotline in the U.S.
(877)565-8860

Taking a Sexual History: Best Practices
Taking a Sexual History: Best Practices - PubMed (nih.gov)

GENDER AFFIRMING HARM REDUCTION; A Toolkit for SSP's
The purpose of this living document is to assist service providers in better understanding the needs of the TGNCNB community when utilizing Syringe Service Programs (SSPs). (Trans Equity Consulting, Harm Reduction Coalition, Lighthouse Learning Collective)
https://lighthousetoolkit.my.canva.site/#purpose-and-objective 

(GAHT) - Gender-affirming hormone therapy
Gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) is something many transgender people use as a tool for medical transition. Not all
trans people use hormones or have medical procedures. GAHT is a more accurate and inclusive term, but many trans people
use hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as shorthand.
Authors: Sam Armbruster & Leslie-Marie Buer
https://www.hepatitiscmsg.org/ghat.html ​

LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory
It is a free, searchable database of all kinds of doctors, medical professionals and healthcare providers who are knowledgeable and sensitive to the unique health needs of LGBTQ+ people in the USA and Canada.
https://gbtqhealthcaredirectory.org/

Drug Interaction Checker Tool
University of Liverpool Hep Drug Interaction tool provides a clinically useful, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date, evidence-based drug-drug interaction resource, freely available to healthcare workers, patients and researchers.
https://hep-druginteractions.org/checker 

Inclusive+
inclusive+ is a network of providers committed to culturally and medically competent LGBTQIA+ care. All providers are thoroughly vetted by our team so you can feel confident in the care you receive.
www.inclusiveplus.co

The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1998. Focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth, they offer a toll-free telephone number where confidential assistance is provided by trained counselors.
www.thetrevorproject.org/

The Gender Equality Law Center
The Gender Equality Law Center advances laws and policies that promote gender justice and racial equity in all aspects of public and private life. Using an intersectional lens, we break down barriers that limit opportunities for low-income women, LGBTQ, and gender non-conforming individuals on the basis of gender and/or sexual orientation as well those created by institutionalized discrimination and stereotyping.
https://www.genderequalitylaw.org/

Provider resources
Healthcare Provider Training
​Anyone can get Hep C Provider Poster
HCV Care Considerations for LGBTQ+ Clients Brochure 
Links
children, adolescents, young adults & pregnant people
MeetTheExperts Webinar
Check out a pre recorded Live Webinar Round Table to discuss Hepatitis C screening and treatment for an often overlooked population. This webinar was held in a Q&A format where the experts in their field provided key facts and information about addressing the very real risk issue of Hepatitis C in children, adolescents, young adults, and pregnant people.
​https://www.hepatitiscmsg.org/mte06162022.html
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Resources & Links
Pregnancy Justice
Pregnancy Justice is dedicated to defending the rights of pregnant people against criminalization and other rights violations because of pregnancy and all pregnancy outcomes. 
https://www.pregnancyjusticeus.org

Drug Interaction Checker Tool
University of Liverpool Hep Drug Interaction tool provides a clinically useful, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date, evidence-based drug-drug interaction resource, freely available to healthcare workers, patients and researchers.
https://hep-druginteractions.org/checker 

​Academy for Perinatal Harm Reduction
Our mission is to improve the lives of pregnant and parenting people who use substances. We envision a community where all families are safe, intact, and informed – regardless of what they choose to put in their bodies. In order to realize this vision, we must celebrate the expertise, honor the courage, and center the voices of members of our community who have lived experience.
https://www.perinatalharmreduction.org/
Materials
Order ​Materials Here! 
Hepatitis C for 2025 Brochure English, Spanish
What's New in Pediatric Hepatitis C​ Poster English
Hep C Can Affect Anyone Poster English
Hep C Can Affect Anyone Brochure English, Spanish
Pregnancy, Harm Reduction, and Hepatitis C Brochure English, Spanish
HCV Care Considerations for LGBTQ+ Clients Brochure English
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WEBINARS