Prevention Point Philadelphia

PPP staff are working hard to keep our participants safe and warm this winter, and we need your help! Our Drop-in Center requests the following: -NEW socks and thermals (in packaging) -Sweatpants -Winter coats -Mylar blankets Consider collecting these items for PPP at your workplace! Please contact [email protected] to coordinate delivery. Thank you for thinking of our unhoused community members as the temperatures drop.

Thanks South Philly Punks With Lunch for inviting Carlos and Liba to give an overdose reversal training at your monthly meeting! To schedule a training for your workplace, organization, or group please email [email protected] AND [email protected] More info on our Overdose Prevention Services: https://lnkd.in/gQmsxc86

Excited for the new PPP overdose surge response bus site! We'll be at N Front St & E Tusculum St on Wednesdays, 12-4pm, for the foreseeable future. The bus staff and providers offer overdose response training and supplies, medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) prescriptions and navigation, and more! Learn about the bus: https://lnkd.in/eX4mpDGj #harmreduction #meetingyouwhereyouare #treatmentoptions #substanceusedisorder

Congratulations to Om Gandhi of University of Pennsylvania on his Rhodes Scholarship to continue cancer immunotherapy research at University of Oxford. We are proud that your experience volunteering at PPP influenced you so profoundly. Every person has a story as to why they use substances. "While a freshman at Penn, Gandhi was handing out food to families outside of Prevention Point, a Kensington nonprofit that provides services to people experiencing addiction, when he met a couple who had turned to narcotics after a personal tragedy. Their son, he learned after befriending them, had died from neuroblastoma, an aggressive cancer targeting nerve cells. Suddenly, his mission in life shifted. He switched majors to neuroscience and health and societies, and dedicated the rest of his time at Penn to researching ways to holistically fighting cancer." https://lnkd.in/e6fc-Dez

PPP is hiring! We have positions open including in case management, medical reception, and shelter support staff. Check out our available roles on Indeed and apply today! https://lnkd.in/ehpP_mD9

In our latest newsletter, we highlighted our specialized medical services, operating alongside our syringe services program in a community-based setting. Dr. Monika Van Sant is our fantastic Medical Services Director, ensuring that our team is treating "the whole person." "It's not just about MOUD or substance use. For our patients it's also about, 'Where are you going to sleep tonight? Did you eat something? What's the next step in the plan to be able to see your kids? Do you need clothing?'" Read all about Dr. Van Sant: https://lnkd.in/eFgWDrDZ

We just sent out our November issue of To the Point, PPP's enewsletter! Check it out and sign up to receive it once every two months on our website. This issue highlights our specialty medical services, tailored to our patient population, which operate alongside our syringe services program in a community-based setting. https://lnkd.in/e2gvdqs5

Happy to help and thank you for leading this important event! Everyone should know how to identify and reverse an opioid overdose.

It's been a big week for HIV services at PPP! Dr. Jessica Meisner, Sana Clinic physician, co-authored an article in Open Forum Infectious Diseases (Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) on the success of long-acting injectable HIV medication with our patients: https://lnkd.in/eSF_RrNE Among the initial 15 participants, all achieved viral suppression after starting this treatment at our clinic. Since the article was written, an additional 15 patients have begun the treatment — they, too, have reached viral suppression. Once someone is virally suppressed, they can no longer pass HIV to another person, helping our community and all of Philadelphia stay healthier. Cheers to Dr. Meisner, our patients, and the whole Sana Clinic team!