Our theme for International Overdose Awareness Day 2024 is #TogetherWeCan – because no one should stand alone in our fight to end overdose. Share this video to show your support and lean into the power of our global community. #IOAD2024 #EndOverdose #OverdosePrevention

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🌟 Join us for our Annual General Meeting! 🌟 We're excited to invite all community members to come together for our AGM this evening. Let's connect, share ideas, and celebrate our successes. Together, we can make a difference!🤝 🎉 #AGM #CommunityEvent #GetInvolved

We’re hiring an Office Administrator! 📝 Bookkeeping, payroll, database management, mailings, supporting the Board 🤝🏻 $58,000 - $60,000/year, 4 weeks vacation, extended benefits package 💻 Mostly remote, with some in-person meetings 📩 Apply by August 9! endhomelessnessottawa.ca/hiring_office_…

Ottawa! We’re hiring an Office Administrator to support bookkeeping, payroll, membership database management, mailings, support to the Board of Directors, and other administrative duties.

Friday August 9th is the deadline to apply for our Office Administrator role! ✍🏻 Bookkeeping, payroll, database management, mailings, supporting the Board 🤝🏻$58,000 - $60,000/year, 4 wks vacation, benefits 💻Mostly remote, with some in-person meetings endhomelessnessottawa.ca/hiring_office_…

After a year and a half living on the streets in Ottawa, Thomas Cavasos is still trying to find permanent housing. From Bruce Deachman, a thoughtful profile showing the human impacts of Ottawa's shortage of permanent affordable housing: ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new…

The mayors of some of Ontario's largest cities are calling on the province to create a ministry and a cohesive strategy to take on homelessness and help cities move people out of encampments: globalnews.ca/news/10688535/…

In Hamilton, an anti-renoviction bylaw will oblige landlords to complete proposed renovations & prove it was necessary for tenants to leave while the work is underway. We'll release a brief this fall with a scan of renoviction legislation across Canada.

Please share: We need volunteers to support the Empathy Project, an experiential learning exercise lead by people with experience of homelessness, now being offered to uOttawa | Faculté de médecine, Faculty of Medicine students. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Bénévoles recherché.e.s, surtout celleux qui parlent français !💜Soutenez le Projet Empathie, un exercice d'apprentissage expérientiel dirigé par des personnes ayant vécu l'itinérance, maintenant offert aux étudiant.e.s de uOttawa | Faculté de médecine, Faculty of Medicine docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

There are two meaningful events happening in Ottawa to recognize International Overdose Awareness Day: 🟣 - 'End The Stigma', Friday, Aug 30th 11AM-1PM at 220 Elgin St. 🟣 - Candlelight vigil, Saturday Aug 31st 8PM-10PM in Dundonald Park, 516 Somerset St W. #IOAD2024

One of the 10 supervised consumption sites that Ontario will close is at Alliance member Somerset West CHC. In 2023, their staff reversed 487 overdoses. #TogetherWeCan #IOAD2024 #EndOverdose endhomelessnessottawa.ca/august_31_inte…

International Overdose Awareness Day is underway. People with lived experience, harm reduction workers, and government leaders are gathering to remember those we lost too soon and the people who support them.

🌍💜 This International Overdose Awareness Day, let’s come together to honor those lost, support their families, and work towards ending overdose. Started in Melbourne in 2001 and now led by Penington Institute, this day reminds us to remember without stigma and push for change.

Solving Ottawa’s homelessness crisis will take help from provincial and federal governments: why Mark Sutcliffe and other Ontario mayors are calling for more support. endhomelessnessottawa.ca/fairness_for_o…

📢 Étudiant(e)s de première année à uOttawa | Faculté de médecine, Faculty of Medicine et étudiant(e)s de deuxième année à PharmD uOttawa ! Rejoignez-nous pour une expérience d'apprentissage où vous vous mettrez dans la peau de ceux qui font face à la pauvreté et à l'itinérance.

📢 First-year uOttawa | Faculté de médecine, Faculty of Medicine and second-year PharmD uOttawa students! Join us for an experiential learning opportunity where you’ll step into the shoes of those facing poverty and homelessness.