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Available in Kitchener-Waterloo
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Consumption & Treatment Services (CTS)</h2>
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<p>Looking for a safe space to use?  Afraid to use alone?  Need new supplies?</p>
<p>Come to the CTS in downtown Kitchener.  Hours of operation are 9 am to 9 pm, 7 days a week</p>
<p><strong>What is available at the CTS?</strong></p>
<p>Services that are available include:</p>
<ul>
  <li>Supervised consumption (You will not be able to smoke your drugs but you can inject, snort, or swallow them)</li>
  <li>A supportive and calm environment</li>
  <li>A judgment-free space with supportive staff, including a registered nurse, a social service worker and a peer worker</li>
  <li>If you start to overdose, staff can give you oxygen, you may not need naloxone</li>
  <li>Supports and referrals</li>
  <li>Safer substance use education</li>
  <li>Harm reduction supplies, sharps containers, returns accepted</li>
  <li>You can pick up a naloxone kit</li>
  <li>Wound care</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Why do we have a CTS in our community?</strong></p>
<ul>
  <li>CTS saves lives by reducing the number of fatal and non-fatal drug overdoses</li>
  <li>Reduces the spread of infectious diseases like HIV and Hepatitis C </li>
  <li>Connects people with community supports</li>
  <li>Creates a safer community by reducing drug use in public spaces and providing options for proper needle disposal</li>
</ul>
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  <a href="https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/health-and-wellness/resources/Documents/CTS_HarmReductionProgram.pdf" target="_blank" title="Open new window to view Consumption and Treatment Services - A Harm Reduction Program" rel="noopener">Consumption and Treatment Services - A Harm Reduction Program (pdf link)</a>
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<p><strong>Looking for more information about Consumption and Treatment Services?</strong></p>
<p>Visit: <a href="http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/CTS">www.regionofwaterloo.ca/CTS</a>
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<p>Email:   <a href="mailto:CTS@regionofwaterloo.ca">CTS@regionofwaterloo.ca</a>
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<p>Phone:  519-575-4400 Ext 5613 or TTY:  519-575-4608</p>
<p>Phone (CTS):  519-514-1467   </p>

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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Safer Supply Program</h3>
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<p>The Safer Supply Program is an extension of the traditional harm reduction supports and services being offered through Sanguen Health Centre. In partnership with the Inner City Health Alliance and The Working Centre, Sanguen Health Centre received funding from Health Canada to address the devastating impacts of the opioid crisis in the Region of Waterloo. </p>


<p>Through this program, health practitioners prescribe legal, pharmaceutical opioids to clients to replace the illicit and toxic street supply. Safer Supply focuses on a team-based, person-centred approach within a community-based model of care. Our program offers stability for clients by providing support around a client's substance use and other key social determinants of health. </p>

<h4>Who can participate in the program? </h4>

<p>This program is offered to high-risk individuals who use unregulated, street-level substances and are at high risk of overdose and overdose related death. Criteria is determined once the referral form is processed. Once a referral form is accepted, individuals will meet with team members working in the Safer Supply Program to complete an Information Session and an assessment of an individual’s eligibility. In order to be eligible for this program, you must be currently residing in the Region of Waterloo. </p>


<h4>What is expected of the program participants? </h4>

<p>Each client is required to adhere to a set of guidelines in order to participate in the program. The guidelines are reviewed during the Information Session and in the Program Agreement and include but are not limited to: </p>

<ul>
<li>Clients will be expected to attend weekly appointments with their doctor/nurse practitioner, submit weekly urine samples and pick up their medication as directed at their specified pharmacy.</li>
<li>Clients will be honest with their doctor regarding drug use outside of their Safer Supply prescription. </li>
<li>Clients will be expected to engage with Community Navigators, Care Facilitators and Nurses on social and health related goals. </li>
<li>Clients will not sell or otherwise divert their Safer Supply medication. Diversion represents a reason for removal from the Safer Supply program. 
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<h4>How can I submit a referral to this program for myself or another person? </h4>

<p>Referrals can be submitted independently or by a service provider on behalf of somebody interested in the program. Submission of referrals opens on the 1st Tuesday of each month (see calendar below). Referrals can be submitted online through the referral link below or in person at 115 Water Street North, Kitchener. In person drop off is only open on the 1st Tuesday of the month between 09:00 am and 4:00 pm. </p>


<p>We will only be accepting 20 referrals per month at this time. Once we receive 20 referral forms the window to submit referral forms will be closed until the 1st Tuesday of the following month. Due to capacity we will not be holding a wait list. </p>

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<h4>Referral Opening Dates: </h4>

<ul>
<li>Tuesday, September 7, 2021 </li>

<li>Tuesday, October 5, 2021 </li>

<li>Tuesday, November 2, 2021 </li>

<li>Tuesday, December 7, 2021 </li>
</ul>

<h4>Safer Supply Referral Form</h4>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfG3uED1KYtPujZQOcTNBC2erPceLti8LNxbKpn73UavwFU-w/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Access referral form</a></p>
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<p>For more information about the Safer Supply Program, please email <a href="mailto:safersupply@sanguen.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">safersupply@sanguen.com</a>. </p>

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<p>The Safer Supply Program received support from the Government of Canada’s Substance Use and Addictions Program. </p>


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