Save The Spot!
Sudbury Ontario's
Supervised Consumption Site
Sudbury Ontario's
Supervised Consumption Site
Toronto Star Article
By Amber Fritz Contributor
The date is approaching fast and lives will be lost when this life saving service closes! We need the province to provide essencial funding for this vital service!
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In the middle of an overdose epidemic, Sudbury’s Supervised Consumption Site Minoogawbi, La Place, The Spot will close unless provincial funding is approved by the Ministry of Addictions and Mental Health. An application was submitted over two years ago, and no response has been given.
We can't wait anymore. Help us #SaveTheSpot by emailing city council and signing the provincial petition below. Your email and signature will automatically send the letter below to key elected officials and help us put pressure for change. The Spot saves lives. Help us keep it alive.
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January 16th, 2024
Dear Community Members,
My name is Heidi Eisenhauer, and I am the Executive Director of Réseau ACCESS Network. I am writing to ask that you consider donating temporary bridge funding for the supervised consumption site (hereafter The Spot) to extend supervised consumption services beyond its proposed closing date. As you may know, the province is pausing funding for any pending Consumption and Treatment Services applications.
Unfortunately, that means The Spot, Sudbury’s only supervised consumption site, is scheduled to close as temporary funding from the City of Greater Sudbury expired on December 31st, 2023.
The supervised consumption site (SCS) is a life saving service that connects some of our community’s most vulnerable members to care, support, and safety. During an unprecedented drug poisoning crisis that has affected every town and city in this country, Sudbury needs a fully operational site to reduce preventable deaths, reduce HIV and Hepatitis C transmission, and connect people who use drugs to wraparound services.
While permanent provincial funding remains on pause, The Spot will require donations to continue operating until The Spot can secure long term funding from either the federal or provincial governments.
Thanks to Vale Base Metals, a generous supporter of ‘The Spot’, the SCS will be able to continue to provide a life saving service throughout January 2024.
Join Vale Base Metals in supporting those in our community who rely on the life saving services The Spot provides during this time of emergency. Your donation will directly impact the lives of community members by providing services to people whose behaviours are often stigmatized, help reduce public consumption, save lives by enabling the medical team to reverse overdoses, and enable emergency services to reallocate funds to other types of emergencies.
Réseau ACCESS Network and the team at The Spot recognize the need for a permanent building located in the downtown core. When this becomes a reality, donors will be recognized for making a difference in our community though their support of evidence-based programming for people who use drugs. Attached you will find a table outlining giving options to help support The Spot until permanent funding can be secured.
The drug poisoning crisis shows no sign of abating, nor plateauing. Help The Spot do what it does best; build community, provide dignity, connect people to care, and save lives. Your support will make a remarkable difference in the lives of people who utilize it.
If you have any questions or need clarification. Please reach out to me at my cell phone (705)618-0111 or email me at heidie@reseauaccessnetwork.com.
Thank you, Miigwetch, Merci,
Heidi Eisenhauer
Executive Director
Réseau ACCESS Network
Since 2018 there has been a 346 per cent increase in opioid overdose deaths in Sudbury compared to 60 per cent in Ontario. 112 Sudbury and Manitoulin residents died from an opioid-related overdose in 2022, an average of 9 people a month, and we have already had 78 fatalities this year.
In the middle of a drug poisoning epidemic The Spot has been essential for Sudbury, reducing overdose deaths, reducing the transmission of infectious diseases, reducing risk and connecting individuals with essential social and healthcare services. In 2023 alone, The Spot had almost 1,000 visits and reversed all 15 overdoses that happened on site, saving lives and drug checking services to prevent the risk of overdose.
Each overdose is a person, and when we reverse an overdose that is a person who is still alive.
If this funding application is approved, we can keep our doors open, move to a more central location, stay open longer and ultimately help more people.
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E-Mail: scs@reseauaccessnetwork.com
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