Community Outreach Intervention Projects

01/12/2025

01/12/2025

Learn how to respond to an overdose with Narcan and save a life.

12/20/2024

Happy holidays to all! COIP offices and mobile services will be closed from 12/24-1/1, and will resume on 1/2/24. See you all in the new year!

If you need supplies, we are open today and Monday.

Stay safe!

11/07/2024

If you can, please donate to the amazing Chicago Recovery Alliance!

11/07/2024

COIP is proud to have been featured in UIC's Alumni Magazine. Special shout out to our community based staff for the work that they do to assist participants! Check out the full article here:

https://stories.uic.edu/all-stories/from-addiction-to-advocacy/index.html

10/28/2024

Join us next Wednesday 11/6 for an outreach event with the South Side Heroin/Opioid Task Force! We hope to see you there!

10/28/2024

An article published by Chicago Reader, written by Katie Prout, highlights the ongoing fight to open an overdose prevention center (OPC) in Illinois. Despite evidence showing that OPCs save lives and reduce overdose deaths, Illinois remains without one. These centers provide a safe space where people can access sterile equipment and receive vital support services. Advocates continue to push for a pilot site in Chicago, where opioid overdoses have hit marginalized communities the hardest.

State Representative La Shawn Ford, who has sponsored a bill to open a pilot OPC on Chicago’s west side, emphasizes that ‘this is a spot where people could come get help...with homelessness, with behavioral health... That’s what this is about.’

Prout writes: ‘The truth, backed up by decades of global data, is that these sites are part of an evidence-based harm reduction strategy that reduces deaths and other dangers associated with drug use.’

You can find the full article at the Chicago Reader website: https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/overdose-prevention-site-illinois/“

09/21/2024

Coming up this October, join us for "Safer Injecting 101," one of our free Foundational Fridays sessions! The webinar will focus on life-saving ways to reduce the risk of overdose and how safer injecting can reduce abscesses, other injection-related wounds, and transmission of bloodborne viruses including HIV and hepatitis C.

The training will provide an overview of how to engage program participants in conversations about how they can stay safer while using, utilizing harm reduction methods to better understand their experiences. Attendees will learn how supplies and injection equipment are used for disease prevention and how to share life-saving information tailored to unique experiences of people who inject drugs.

Sign up for the session here: bit.ly/SaferInjecting101

09/18/2024

BIG NEWS! We are moving!

COIP's west side field site location will be moving just west on Madison and will reopen on Thursday 9/19/24.

We are excited to share this new space and the opportunities it will bring with our participants and the community.

Look out for more information about our grand opening celebration!

08/05/2024

If you're in need of support today, or any day, free and confidential help is available if you or someone you know needs support with mental health or use of substances.

💛 Help yourself and share to help others: http://samhsa.gov/find-help