Weekly action items and updates from GHC #FairShare4Harlem
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| STRIVING FOR A HARLEM WHERE ALL PEOPLE CAN THRIVE
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| SIGN OUR PETITION Supervised Injection Sites Need Guardrails to Protect Communities of Color |
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| We've just launched a petition on Change.org: www.Change.org/CommunityHarmReduction New York State's Assembly and Senate Members should reject The Safer Consumption Act, bill s399/a338, unless the following 6 Safety Guardrails are added to the bill. - Open many supervised injection sites (SISs) or none at all
- Keep injection sites 500 feet from schools and playgrounds
- Allocate more funding to arrest drug dealers and end open-air drug scenes
- Establish a formal community engagement plan with local residents
- Hold SIS's providers accountable for referring users to treatment
- Add addiction programs to NYC's 36 Assembly Districts that are treatment deserts
Harlem's supervised injection site is located two blocks away from 9 schools with +4250 students and nearly 4000 residents - most of whom are people of color. Before adding more harm reduction services in this area, New York City and New York State should reduce the number of existing services in Harlem.
Please sign the Change.org petition. When you sign the petition, please make sure to add why you are signing and how this issue has affected you. |
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| "OUR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY WAS A LITTLE MORE AFTER THE FACT" A OnPoint Executive Confesses to Establishing Injection Site With No Community Engagement |
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| At a Bloomberg Philanthropies conference Kalin See smiles while admitting that OnPoint secretly setup and then opened their East Harlem injection site without engaging with the East Harlem community. OnPoint's failure to work with the community led to the disastrous decision to locate an injection site across from an East Harlem school. |
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| PRE-K INSTALLS BULLET-PROOF GLASS
Early Childhood Education Site Across From OnPoint's Harlem Site Fearful for Staff and Children
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| For over a year now, Harlem has been deeply concerned that the Department of Health and OnPoint chose to establish the nations first supervised injection site (SIS) directly across from an East Harlem school. OnPoint's location has caused incredible stress on low-income East Harlem children who are admitted to the A.B.C. school. Given the incredibly difficult circumstances already facing the families that attend ABC School, it is unconscionable that they are forced to weave around the drug dealers and users who flock to the sidewalk outside OnPoint. See the image below for an example of what A.B.C. children have to navigate to just to get to their school: |
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| By purposefully not engaging with our community before opening, the Department of Health and OnPoint place Harlem's children at risk every day they attend school. In response to parent's and employees' concern regarding the increase in crime and violence around OnPoint's injection site, A.B.C. School has had to install thick bullet-proof glass to protect the children inside. |
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| OnPoint's unconscionably location is situated in the midst of an East Harlem education hub. 7 schools in the immediate vacinty serve over 4,250 Harlem students:
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| OnPoint's 126th Street facility needs to move. No Harlem family should have to navigate around drug dealers and drug users attracted to OnPoint's injection facility, just to take their child to school.
@_OnPointNYC and @NYCHealthy are guilty of systemic oversaturation |
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| WELCOME NEW COALITION MEMBER The Urban Garden Center Joins GHC |
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| Welcome to the Urban Garden Center - nestled under the MetroNorth tracks between East 116th and 118th Streets. |
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