Ann:

I recognized that your e-mail address was an Alberta one, and wondered
whether you worked with Marliss Taylor in Edmonton's Streetworks project.

An article she wrote about Streetworks and the role of natural helpers in
the project was in the latest issue of Canadian AIDS News.

For those who don't receive this newsletter, the article is on line at:
http://www.cpha.ca/cpha/canews/IX_4/health.html. Her contact info is at the
end. (If people want to read it who don't have web access, let me know --
this morning, before I leave for vacation! --; I could cut and paste it as
a posting here.)

Cheers,

Shelley


>Does anyone have access to ideas/models for supporting "natural helpers" who
>access needle exchange sites or similar programs?  The context: many of the
>individuals coming to needle exchange sites in this city are, in turn,
>providing support to people who will always remain underground but rely on
>the skills and knowledge of people they trust, eg. in relation to safe
>injecting, remedies for serious cuts, bruises, burns and the like.
>
{snip}
>
>Ann Goldblatt

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