Safer Consumption Site

Thank you for supporting us on BlueSky. However, we've decided to merge the Safer Consumption Site social media with Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre social media. As of today, we'll no longer be posting on the SCS socials. We hope
you will continue to follow us here @ahwc.bsky.social

29.07.2025 18:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Join us from 1-4 PM today @181 Higgins to celebrate the 1st anniversary of our Mobile Healthcare Clinic!

The event features Pow Wow dancers & giveaways! A light lunch will follow. Everybody is welcome!

To learn about the Mobile Healthcare & Wellness Clinic, visit: ahwc.ca/mobilehealth...

25.07.2025 17:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Join us tomorrow as we celebrate the first anniversary of the Mobile Healthcare & Wellness Clinic! The event will take place in the rotunda at 181 Higgins Avenue. There will be a mini demo Pow Wow and giveaways, followed by a light lunch. Everyone is welcome! Bring your friends and relatives!

24.07.2025 20:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Illicit drugs are unregulated, so there’s no guarantee that a consumer is actually getting what they intended to buy.

#HarmReduction advocates are calling for a safe supply of drugs to be made available so people can be sure that substances have not been adulterated with stronger additives

22.07.2025 15:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Aboriginal Health & Wellness Centre of Winnipeg is accepting applications from qualified persons for the Registered Nurse 0.4 EFT TERM position.

Details here: ahwc.ca/now-hiring-r...

#NowHiring #Nurses

15.07.2025 18:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What do People Who Use Drugs want in a Supervised Consumption Site?

People who use drugs in Winnipeg were surveyed about a potential supervised consumption site (SCS)

This post is part of a series talking about harm reduction — what it is and why we do it. Follow @safersitesca for more.

15.07.2025 15:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Supervised Consumption Site (SCS) is a place where people can use drugs in a supervised and hygienic environment to reduce the harm from substance use while offering additional services such as counselling, social work, and substance use treatment referrals.

Learn more: www.safersites.ca

10.07.2025 18:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This survey found that illicit drug use was most prevalent among youth ages 15-24 (more on that later).

This post is part of a series talking about harm reduction — what it is and why we do it. Follow @safersitesca to see upcoming posts, and like, comment and share to spread the word!

25.06.2025 17:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Charlotte This is "Charlotte" by We Are Allies on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Métis woman, Kookum Charlotte Nolin, (Stands Strong Eagle Woman) has 7 children & 9 Grandchildren. She’s a Sixties Scoop survivor and Indian Day School survivor—she attended the Day School in Roseau River and lived in various foster homes and a group home.
Watch: vimeo.com/943415277?&l...

#NIHM

18.06.2025 17:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Most supervised consumption sites that were set to close won’t offer service despite injunction. Here’s why Despite an injunction on Friday, provincial funding is contingent on transition to new model.

As a healthcare provider in Regent Park, I joined the community yesterday in mourning and rage as the supervised consumption site Bevel Up had its last day of service. It’s truly hard to express the cruelty this represents for people who use drugs. /1 #onpoli #medsky #topoli #cdnpoli

01.04.2025 14:46 — 👍 27    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 0

One of the many ways #PWUD keep each other safe, #Naloxone kits hanging throughout an encampment.
#HarmReduction
#HarmReductionSavesLives
#onpoli
#cdnpoli
#MSTH
#DrugSky

01.04.2025 15:13 — 👍 21    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0