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Service

Outreach

Provided by Lake Country Health
2 other services offered by this agency.

Outreach

Provides essential items like tents and outdoor clothing for those experiencing homelessness. Also offers referrals to help with sheltering, navigating financial resources, and accessing emergency food. Offers gas, pet gift cards, and bus tickets for travel from Lake Country to Kelowna or Vernon. Provides harm reduction supplies, along with harm reduction education and referrals to health services, addictions services, and other social supports. Needle exchange services include distribution of clean needles, sterile water, and alcohol wipes; disposal of used needles; and health information to encourage safer injection practices. Provides safer drug use supplies such as crack pipe mouthpiece and screens, and injection supplies. Also provides safer sex supplies, including condoms. Offers take home fentanyl test strips to detect drug contaminants. Provides free Take Home Naloxone Kits (Narcan) that can be used to reverse the effects of overdoses from opioids like fentanyl, heroin, methadone, morphine, and oxycodone; training can be provided. Serves residents of Lake Country, which includes Okanagan Centre, Carr's Landing, Oyama, and Winfield. Office hours are 9 am to 4 pm Mondays and 9:30 am to 4:30 pm Tuesday to Thursday.

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