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GLIDE supports overdose prevention programs, as harm reduction, because they are a compassionate, effective, and rigorously proven approach to improving the health and safety of people who use drugs. Their implementation, city wide and to scale, are essential to creating a healthier San Francisco.
Overdose prevention programs allow people who use drugs to do so in a sanctioned, safe space under the supervision of trained staff, be treated with dignity and respect, and access supportive services and treatment options that can open pathways to health, while reducing the traumas associated with public use. They have been in successful operation around the world for several decades, and there has never been a death from overdose in any such site.
GLIDE works at the local and state levels of policy advocacy to push for overdose prevention programs and is a proud co-sponsor and active supporter of State Senate Bill 57. The bill, authored by Senator Scott Wiener, would allow the pilot of overdose prevention programs in San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles.
The two-year bill is awaiting an Assembly floor vote, before returning to the Senate for concurrence, and the Governor’s desk for signature. GLIDE is deeply grateful for Senator Wiener’s leadership on this issue, and we look forward to further supporting the bill as it moves through the Legislature.
Voice your support for SB 57! Share our video about the benefits of overdose prevention programs, below, and reach out to your Assemblymember to let them know we need overdose prevention programs!
For more information about overdose prevention programs, visit: www.saferinside.org
The Key to Transforming the Homeless Crisis
GLIDE assists people who are homeless or on the brink of homelessness every day, and we have witnessed the effects of the housing crisis on everyone from working families to retirees to disabled trying to access shelter. As a community that values unconditional love and radical inclusivity, we are compelled by our faith and our love to act.
Led by a coalition that included GLIDE and the Coalition on Homelessness, this initiative was crafted with input from dozens of stakeholders, including homeless people, business leaders, homeless service providers, tenant groups, religious organizations, city department heads and a host of concerned San Franciscans.
We thank the voters of San Francisco, our partners and Justice Warriors for passing this initiative.
Why?
Passed by the voters of San Francisco in November 2018 with 61% of the vote
Legal challenges and victory
What Prop C will achieve
Permanent solutions:
Transforming our severely underfunded mental health and substance abuse system:
Preventing homelessness:
Shelter and hygiene programs:
Prioritizing services:
How will this be paid for?