Our outreach team brings a unique blend of skills and life experience designed to support marginalized drug users in our community. 365 days every year SOLID sends boots out to help people in the streets and in parks across Victoria. With a primary goal of keeping people alive through their darkest times, we do whatever it takes to offer a continuum of care, supporting people as needed through the day to day . The outreach team offers supports to the most marginalized members of our community including services such as:
- Overdose response as well as training and education
- Harm reduction supplies, needle exchange, and safer use education
- Assistance to find sheltering and a place to wash and eat
- Housing applications and assistance finding housing options
- Access to employment opportunities and professional development
- Assistance and referrals to secure an income through disability or social assistance benefits
- Assistance obtaining identification
- First-aid, basic wound care, education, and referrals to health care
- Referrals to detox, counseling, peer support, treatment and addictions services
If you are concerned about someone slipping through the cracks in Victoria, don’t hesitate to connect them to our resources.