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Rock Users Group #1 Newsletter

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
Date: 
2004
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
A pamphlet produced by the Rock Users Group (RUG) providing information about crack cocaine; harm reduction; and the goals and demands of RUG.
Keywords: 
crack; crack cocaine; drugs; drug safety; harm reduction; Rock Users Group (RUG); Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)

Endocarditis

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
A poster providing information about symptoms and treatment for bacterial endocarditis.
Keywords: 
endocarditis; harm reduction; needles; treatment; Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)

A Guide for Community Development

Publication type: 
Research Paper / Project Report
Agency: 
Community Directions
Pages: 
59
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
The document is a guide produced in collaboration with residents and organizations of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside Strathcona community to describe how these diverse groups work together and how they would like "outside" organizations to work with them in the future. The document includes: an overview of the guide; description of the Downtown Eastside Strathcona community; explanation of the principles of community-based development; particular issues of concern to the community; and specific ways the community works together.
Keywords: 
community; community development; Community Directions; community services; downtown eastside; DTES; poverty; Strathcona

What We Heard: Compilation of Feedback to the Draft Alcohol and Drug Action Plan

Publication type: 
Policy Paper / Action Plan
Agency: 
Community Directions
Date: 
2001
Pages: 
23
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
The document provides a summary of the findings from 29 discussions held at 21 different locations in the Downtown Eastside/Strathcona neighbourhoods from May to September 2001. The discussions were designed to gather feedback on a number of issues related to the Alcohol and Drug Action Plan being put together by Community Directions, a collective of organizations seeking solutions to the problems of drug and alcohol abuse in the downtown eastside of Vancouver. The document includes: participant demographics; summary of discussion; summary of individual feedback forms; summary of the community's priorities and recommendations for task groups to follow-up in specific areas.
Keywords: 
action plan; alcohol; community supports; Community Directions; downtown eastside; DTES; drugs; drug use; Vancouver

An Alcohol and Drug Action Plan for the Downtown Eastside/Strathcona: Draft Plan for Community Discussion

Publication type: 
Policy Paper / Action Plan
Agency: 
Community Directions
Date: 
2001
Pages: 
46
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
The document is a draft of an action plan developed by the organization Community Directions to address problems associated with drug and alcohol addiction in the downtown eastside of Vancouver. The document is based on a four pillar approach and includes background information about the action plan, an overall framework for action, and an explanation of 22 priority issues grouped into prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and enforcement. The purpose of the draft action plan is to use it as a tool to generate and gather feedback from the community through discussion groups.
Keywords: 
action plan; alcohol; community supports; Community Directions; downtown eastside; DTES; drugs; drug use; harm reduction; prevention; treatment; Vancouver

Funding Allocation for the DTES HIV/AIDS/IDU Action Plan

Publication type: 
Policy Paper / Action Plan
Agency: 
DTES HIV/AIDS Consumer Board
Date: 
1998
Pages: 
9
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
The document is produced in response to the DTES HIV/AIDS/IDU Action Plan proposal and the author offers philosophical considerations and a number of specific recommendations for to address funding issues in the downtown eastside of Vancouver. The author emphasizes the public nature of funding, a cooperative community approach, and recommendations related to: grant applications; accountability; proposal writing and development.
Keywords: 
action plan; community; DTES; downtown eastside; HIV/AIDS; grants; IDU; project proposal

No Further Harm: TASC Report on Narcotics Harm Reduction

Publication type: 
Research Paper / Project Report
Agency: 
British Columbia Medical Association
Date: 
1996
Pages: 
26
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
The document is a report prepared by the Temporary Advisory Sub-Committee (TASC) on Narcotics Harm Reduction established by the Professional Advisory Committee (PAC) of the B.C. Medical Association in 1996 to study problems associated with injection drug use (IDU) in British Columbia. The report outlines the terms of reference for TASC, provides an analysis of existing systems and processes in place to deal with addictions in BC, and includes recommendations designed to reduce the harm associated with IDU in B.C.
Keywords: 
addictions; British Columbia; British Columbia Medical Association (BCMA); drug addiction; drug use; harm reduction; injection drug use; public health

Let Me Go

Publication type: 
Poetry / Prose
Pages: 
5
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
The document is written in prose and recounts a mother's experience of her daughter's heroin addiction and death.
Keywords: 
addiction; families; sex trade; women

Hope Village Proposal on Tent Cities

Publication type: 
Position Paper
Agency: 
Hope Village Council
Date: 
2004
Pages: 
7
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
The document is a proposal produced by the Hope Village Council (HVC), a group of homeless people and people at risk of becoming homeless, to help address the problem of homelessness in Vancouver. The authors propose a tent city modeled on the Dignity Village tent city in Portland, Oregon; draw on data collected by the City of Vancouver about the capacity and efficacy of the existing shelter system to support their argument; included a rationale for how a tent city will successfully deal with homelessness issues; and conclude with a list of resolutions passed by the Hope Village Council.
Keywords: 
downtown eastside; DTES; homelessness; homeless shelters; Hope Village Council (HVC); housing; housing needs; poverty; tent city; Vancouver

CopWatch Coalition Proposal

Publication type: 
Policy Paper / Action Plan
Agency: 
CopWatch Coalition
Pages: 
4
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
The document provides information about a coalition of groups and individuals organizing against targeted police violence in Vancouver. The authors include information about why the CopWatch coalition is necessary, what strategies and organizational structures the group will use, and the possible benefits of CopWatch Coalition to the community.
Keywords: 
activism; action plan; CopWatch Coaltion; empowerment; police; Vancouver; violence

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