FIRST CHURCH SHELTER

Jim Stewart,Director, First Church Shelter. Founding & Steering Committee member, @SIFMA_Now! Tweets/opinions his own

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

Contact Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery Chair Mindy Domb [phone] Tell her Massachusetts needs Overdose Prevention Centers NOW. Let her know you want her Committee to favorably report out H2196 BEFORE March 18. Ask your friends to do so, as well.

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

@lady_valor_07 Got them ALL!

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

Make sure you let the Joint Committee On Mental Health, Substance Use & Recovery know it's time for Massschusetts to make Overdose Prevention Centers available in the Commonwealth https://t.co/xXDrVvABI1 They save lives, ⬇️ IV infections and ⬆️ participation in treatment #ma4opc

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang thinks it's ok
for @CambMA to shut down the Transitional Wellness Center, ADDING to the unhoused in our community. Tell him [email protected] NOW is not the time put more people on our streets!

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

D4DPR Position Paper on "Prioritizing Opioid Settlement Funds for Overdose Prevention Centers" ⁦@RonMariano⁩ Overdose Prevention Centers (OPC)!save lives, ⬇️IV related infections and ⬆️participation in treatment! #sayyes2opc ⁦⁦@SIFMA_NOW⁩ https://t.co/TbRflIOoV9

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

Remembering Chris Alba last night.

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

First Church Shelter presents the Annual Doris Beauvais Luncheon and Mitch Snyder Awards on October 27 – First Church Cambridge~ SAVE THE DATE https://t.co/frCflhWEE1

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

Conference Committee started work on Substance Use Disorder (SUD) bill this week.Tell @adrianmadaro @SenJohnVelis @RonMariano [email protected] to include Overdose Prevention Centers (OPC) OPS, save lives, ⬇️IV related infections & ⬆️participation in treatment @SIFMA_NOW

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

SAVE THE DATE- Sunday October
27 Doris Beavais Luncheon and presentation of 2024 Mitch Snyder
Awards https://t.co/oKyyHfKcPG
1PM First Church Cambridge 11 Garden Street Cambridge

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

Ask @KateCook5 when @MassGovernor will FINALY take steps make Overdose Prevention Centers (OPC) available in #mapoli? OPC SAVES LIVES, ⬇️IV related infections and ⬆️ participation in treatment. #savelivesnow #sayyes2opc #ma4opc @SIFMA_NOW

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

Mass. lawmakers reach agreement on Boston liquor license bill-⁦@RonMariano⁩ [email protected] ⁦@MassGovernor⁩ MORE liquor licenses but STILL NO Overdose Prevention Centers (OPC)? OPCs save lives! #sayyes2opc ⁦@SIFMA_NOW⁩ https://t.co/EOUtFsXCAc

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

I was proud to be working, with my First Church Shelter co workers, and in solidarity with all those, everywhere, who were "on the job today." #LaborDay2024

[SIFMA NOW @SIFMA_NOW]

On #InternationalOverdoseAwarenessDay we honor, remember & mourn the beloved & beautiful people we've lost to PREVENTABLE #OD death

We recommit to organizing alongside PWUD for #YestoSCS in #mapoli

Show #OPCsolidarity & demand #SIFMAnow!
https://t.co/jQiCwXKAOu

#IOAD2024

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

THOUSANDS lives lost, EVERY year but elected officials in MA refuse to make Overdose Prevention Centers (OPC) legal. OPCs SAVE LIVES, ⬇️IV related infections and ⬆️participation in treatment. @maura_healey @RonMariano [email protected] #sayyes2opc @SIFMA_NOW #ma4opc

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

SAVE THE DATE: October 27 Dianne Kuzia Hill of @MyBrothersTable will be among those receiving the 2024 Mitch Snyder Award! 1PM 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

SUNDAY OCTOBER 27; save the date! Lynn Wencus @team_sharing and Chris Alves @PAACA among those receiving the 2024 Mitch Snyder Award. 1PM First Church Cambridge 11 Garden Street Cambridge

[SIFMA NOW @SIFMA_NOW]

💜TAKE ACTION💜

Today MA Senate passed a substance use bill incl #OPC!

Tomorrow's the last day of the legislative session. 14,874 people in MA died of PREVENTABLE #Overdose since first #SIFMANOW bill in 2016.

Demand #mapoli say #YestoSCS to save lives!

https://t.co/uuRxr3lkhG

[FIRST CHURCH SHELTER @ParakoiJim]

Find your state senator https://t.co/wursrpbypI. Tell to support Overdose Prevention Centers (OPC) in the Senate Substance Use Disorder bill this week. OPCs SAVE LIVES ⬇️ IV related infections & ⬆️ participation in treatment. @SIFMA_NOW #savelivesnow #ma4opc

[Tehya *support harm reduction* Johnson, NP @TehyaRJohnson]

Idk how you sleep at night moving people, in the rain, without offering alternative shelter, a day before you said youd move them, so now they have no time to pack anything up. Unfortunately tho we can’t have rich ppl seeing poor people when their kids are graduating 😐