Our Community Champions in Action

Stories of partnership and impact.

Meet the agencies and communities that bring Our Healthbox to life.
All Provinces
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New Brunswick
Monarch Landing Shelter
Our Healthbox can supply naloxone in a low barrier, stigma free-way while connecting vulnerable populations to life saving services.”
Chantale Bourque, Our Healthbox Coordinator Ensemble Moncton
New Brunswick
Woodstock First Nation Health Centre
Access without barriers is key. Feeling stigmatized can reduce the willingness of people who use substances to seek treatment. Our Healthbox has allowed us to integrate the value of two-eyed seeing that is aligned with the principles of harm reduction.”
Melanie Madore, Community Health Nurse
New Brunswick
Sackville United Church
...by providing harm reduction supplies, we meet a person in their lived experience and love them in that moment – so that we can love them again tomorrow when they might be in the space to make a difference choice.”
Bruce Lloyd, Minister
New Brunswick
Kent Drugs - Guardian Pharmacy
Our Healthbox is a game changer - low barrier, stigma free way to access harm reduction supplies while connecting people to healthcare services.”
Abbey Visser, Pharmacist
Ontario
Carlington Community Health Centre
Our Healthbox contains more than just health and harm reduction supplies as impressive as that is. This box contains compassion."
Miriam Gartland, Director of Corporate Services
Manitoba
Norwest Co-op Community Health
I wish Our Healthbox was in every community, it would be a great thing for health for everyone for things like harm reduction, family planning and self-care... helpful in every way for the community.”
Inuk Elder Martha Peet
Ontario
One City Peterborough
Increasing access to resources and supplies the community needs, when they need them, feels like an important step in empowering people to define what safety means to them.”
Christian Harvey, Co-Executive Director
Ontario
SOAR Community Services
"We are proud to be part of this collaborative effort that we hope will have a positive impact on overdose rates in Brantford. By making harm reduction supplies more accessible, we hope to save lives and improve outcomes of those in need."
Kim Baker, Executive Director of Services
New Brunswick
Neqotkuk (Tobique) Mental Health and Addictions Outreach
Our Healthbox is another tool in our harm reduction program that allows clients access not only to clean supplies and other life-saving items such as naloxone and HIV self-test kits, but also cultural supports such as smudge kits.
Roxanne Sappier, Former Health Director
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We respect the history, languages and cultures of the First Nations, Métis, Inuit and all First Peoples of Canada, whose presence continue to enrich our lives and work. We gratefully acknowledge that in our collaborative networks across Canada we work in many of the traditional territories of Indigenous peoples. We strive for respectful partnerships with Indigenous peoples as we search for collective healing and true reconciliation.