New York Harm Reduction Educators, Inc.

New York Harm Reduction Educators, known as NYHRE, is the largest syringe exchange program on the east coast and possibly in the country. Yet syringe exchange represents only one part of the services provided by this agency. With a budget of close to $2.7 million, NYHRE provides a seamless continuum of care to 7,218 individuals. During 2006, over 850,000 clean syringes were distributed to injection drug users in the South-Central Bronx and East Harlem. NYHRE serves adults, primarily from communities of color: approximately 67% of the participants are Latino/a 25% are African-American and 5% are White; two-thirds are male. Currently, NYHRE provides services to 469 HIV+ clients.

NYHRE’s continuum of street-side services was developed as follows:

Program	Date of Initiation	Services
Syringe Exchange Program	1990	Collects used syringes in exchange for sterile syringes, teaches harm reduction, and provides a gateway to all of NYHRE’s services
Street Outreach	1990	Locates, engages, and enrolls un(der)connected drug users in NYHRE services
Stress Reduction, Supportive, and Recovery Readiness	1994	Prepares high risk clients to move in the direction of treatment and care by providing them with a variety of psycho-educational support groups, referrals to life stabilizing services, support groups to reduce isolation and holistic health services including acupuncture.
Access to Early Intervention	1998-2007	Assists high risk un(der)connected drug users in connecting to the AIDS related service delivery system, learn self-advocacy skills, and overcome barriers to access
Access to Care	1999-2007	Teaches high risk HIV+ drug users how to prepare for, gain access to, and succeed in HIV primary care
1-800 Get-Connected Program	1999-2004	Provides telephone-based transitional case management
Multi Module Prevention Program	2001-2007	Provides HIV prevention through individual counseling and group level intervention
Mental Health Services	2002	Provides prevention and health promotion services to mentally ill and dually diagnosed clients
Access to Drug Treatment Program	2002	Provides recovery readiness and case management for drug treatment
Peer Training Program	2002	Develops volunteers into employable harm reduction workers
Counseling, Testing and Treatment Program	2004	Provides community-based rapid HIV testing and the implementation of the evidence-based Safety Counts group intervention
Viral Hepatitis Integration Project	2005	Provides screening and vaccinations for Hepatitis
Expanded HIV Testing and Access to Care	2006-2007	Provides increased access to rapid HIV testing at street-side delivery sites in the Bronx
Get Connected!	2007	Provides mental health and substance misuse screenings and referrals/connections to care.
Protect Our Partners	2007	Implements the evidence-based Healthy Relationships group intervention for HIV+ substance users
Project ANIMO	2007	Provides Spanish-speaking motivational enhancement counseling and case management services to Latino/a substance users and their sexual partners
Sharperware Program	2007	Peer referral program for overdose prevention, safer injection education and registration for syringe exchange
YO HOMIE!	2007	Motivational enhancement groups and counseling, case management and comprehensive risk counseling services

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