KDFN Health Outreach and Community Services
The outreach team focuses on providing health care, support, and programming, as well as advocacy for equal healthcare services for people who are street-involved and inadequately housed.
Harm Reduction: The Kwanlin Dün Health Centre embraces the harm reduction approach for clients to use drugs as safely as possible. The Health Centre and Outreach team supply safe injection equipment, safe crack kits, condoms, and naloxone kits to dispense at clients’ request and in a non-judgmental way. There is a community needle drop box behind 24 O’Brien.
Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Kits: Naloxone kits and training are available at the Health Centre from 9 a.m. to 11:45 and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays, on the outreach van, as well as at other locations around Whitehorse. For more information, please see https://www.kwanlindun.com/health/outreach-services/ or stop by the Health Centre.
The Downtown Outreach Clinic: The downtown outreach clinic is a joint program run by the Kwanlin Dün Health Centre Outreach Program and the Government of Yukon Home Care Program. It currently operates out of the Whitehorse Emergency Shelter on Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. At this clinic, a variety of services are offered including foot care, referrals to other agencies, sexually transmitted infection testing, and adult immunizations.
The Outreach Van: The Outreach Van is a mobile community outreach program aimed at meeting the health, safety and social needs of street-involved youth and adults who cannot, or choose not to access existing health services. It is a joint program between Kwanlin Dün Health Centre, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Society of Yukon (FASSY) and Blood Ties. Currently, it operates Monday to Saturday from 5 p.m. to 10 pm, excluding statutory holidays. The Outreach Van’s nurses are employed by Kwanlin Dün Health Services. Nurses provide on-site wound management. They also advocate to doctors and other medical professionals for appropriate services on behalf of van clients.
Contacts:
Address: Natsékhi Kų̀ Health Centre, 53 McClimon Crescent
Outreach Van Phone: 867-334-1647
Outreach Van Email: outreachvan@bloodties.ca
Phone: 867-668-7289
KDFN Health Outreach Services Website: https://www.kwanlindun.com/health/outreach-services/
KDFN Health Services Website: https://www.kwanlindun.com/health/