AGENCY TESTIMONY
Street Health Outreach and Wellness (SHOW) vans program
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Dr. Schatz details the Street Health Outreach and Wellness (SHOW) vans program, a mobile harm reduction initiative supported by opioid settlement funding. The program offers a new model of care for unsheltered New Yorkers, providing various health services and harm reduction supplies.
- Approximately $2,200,000 of settlement funding supports the SHOW vans program
- Services include testing, vaccinations, wound care, and provision of harm reduction supplies
- In 2024, the SHOW vans had nearly 13,000 encounters for services
- There are currently 5 operational vans associated with different NYC Health + Hospitals facilities
Dr. Daniel Schatz
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Approximately $2,200,000 has supported our mobile harm reduction teams known as our street health outreach and wellness or show vans, which offers a new model of care that includes testing and vaccinations, wound care, and provision of basic material necessities and harm reduction services to New Yorkers who are unsheltered.
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Our show vans are equipped with harm reduction services, including the provision of overdose prevention supplies such as naloxone, fentanyl test strips, and xylazine test strips, as well as staff who specialize in treatment of substance use disorder.
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Behavioral health staff, including social workers, addiction counselors, and peers, canvass the streets in high need areas of the city providing direct concrete needs, brief counseling and referral to treatment, and help street homeless patients to access shelter, housing, and benefits.
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Importantly, these staff engage patients where they are, earn their trust by showing empathy and respect, while helping to connect individual to ongoing treatment when the patient is ready.
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In 2024, the show vans had nearly 13,000 encounters for services.
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There are currently 5 operational vans that are part of New York City Health and Hospitals Bellevue, Lincoln, Woodhall, and Elmhurst.