Our Mission:
We are a non-profit organization run by volunteers dedicated to building community by providing life-saving services, along with harm reduction resources to underserved and marginalized individuals.
What Do
We Do?
Syringe Access Services to one fixed site and mobile outreach to multiple curbside communities in West Oakland.
Food & Basic Necessities are provided at each Needle Exchange and mobile outreach.
Narcan Trainings free or sliding scale based for businesses, nonprofits, and community members.
Tabling at shows and community events where we provide safer drug use supplies, fentanyl drug testing, safer sex supplies, and Narcan.
Community Cleanups around the neighborhoods we serve.
Outreach Counselors can help unhoused folks offer one-on-one support and direct linkages and referrals to resources in Oakland.
Advocacy and uplift voices of people who use drugs and people experiencing homelessness in Oakland.
How to Support
Look out for shows we book to help fund our programs.
Some of our past fundraisers:
There are many ways that you can donate and support us.
Where to Find Us
Sundays
Fixed Site: 3:30-5:30pm at 35th and Peralta
Rain, Shine, Covid-19, or Smoke — We will always be there
Grab some food, narcan, syringes, hygiene (basic & menstrual), dog food, masks, and hand sanitizer!
Every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month, Curbside Care Clinic will be providing herbal wound care for abscesses or whatever your wound needs are and self care kits.
Mobile Outreach: 3:30-5:30 — 35th and Telegraph, 35th and MLK, 45th and Telegraph
We operate on a needs based model. Whatever you need is what we will give you.
We ask that all participants practice physical distancing and wear masks when engagin with us.
Tuesdays
MLK & West Grand, St. Vincent de Paul, MLK & 23rd st. — 10am-12:30pm
We walk up and down MLK and down toward St. Vincent de Paul. You will see us walking with big bags and two carts
We provide snacks, waters, syringe access and disposal, hygiene supplies, socks, first aid, Narcan and safer smoking supplies.
Wednesdays
Wood st Needle Exchange 1:30-3pm
Every 3rd Wednesday and occasionally the first Wednesday, PWL will be at W. Grand and Wood st.
We are able to do this fixed site in collaboration with HEPPAC and Berkeley NEED.
We provide snacks, waters, syringe access and disposal, first aid, Narcan and safer smoking supplies.
Thursdays
Thursdays: 5th and Filbert, West Oakland BART — 6pm-8pm
It is difficult to say when we will be there, but expect us between those times.
We provide syringe access, food, narcan, and whatever else we can fit into our cars
Follow us on social media or check back here for updates on our
distribution and outreach sites
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