Our Services

VOCAL-NY offers harm reduction services to people who use drugs in New York City, based out of our Brooklyn office.

Harm reduction is a person-centered, trauma-informed approach to working with people who use drugs. To accomplish VOCAL-NY’s broader mission, we offer resources and education to minimize the social and health harms associated with drug use.

Drop-In Center

We connect people who use drugs to health and wellness services that they deserve.

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Peer Delivered Syringe Exchange Outreach

Peer-Delivered Syringe Exchange (PDSE) is a program that was created to help reach injecting drug users (IDUs) who are, due to different factors, unable to visit a syringe exchange program (SEP) to collect their necessary materials, as well as dispose of their used syringes safely.

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LOUD: Peer Job Training Program

LOUD (Leaders, Organizers, Users of Drugs) VOCAL-NY’s innovative peer training program. It is a multi-session educational program that blends traditional peer training with community organizing.

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Healthcare and Wellness Programs

VOCAL-NY and Mount Sinai Hospital in collaboration to find and treat people with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) who use drugs.

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Care Coordination

We connect people who use drugs to health and wellness services that they deserve.

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Overdose Prevention

Learn how to save a life!

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Syringe Exchange

VOCAL-NY is a New York State-licensed Syringe Exchange Program (SEP).

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Meet Our Street Outreach Team

You can also find our street outreach team providing syringe exchange services in various locations across Brooklyn, including:

  • Downtown Brooklyn
  • Sunset Park
  • Downtown Brooklyn
  • East New York
  • Crown Heights
  • Coney Island & Brighton Beach (summers only)

To learn more about our outreach services, please contact Paula Santiago, Outreach & Peer Education Manager.

Nate Taylor
PDSE Outreach Worker
Tara Fedele
PDSE Outreach Worker
Louis Winslow
Peer Educator
Hector Barbosa
PDSE Outreach Worker

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