The People's Harm Reduction Alliance

The People’s Harm Reduction Alliance (PHRA) is a community-based peer-centered organization that has provided harm reduction and health services to our communities since 2007.  PHRA is passionate about supporting people who use drugs to live their own best possible lives – however they envision and define that, and on their own terms.  Every day for the nearly 17 years, we have supported folks on their individual paths to stability, independence, and wellbeing. PHRA chooses to accept the reality of drug use and to humanize people who use drugs by treating them with love and support, not anger and condescension.  In our view, people who use drugs are better served by compassion and respect than by criticism and punishment. PHRA strives to serve the needs of our communities by distributing vital harm reduction supplies and related healthcare services within a respectful, non-judgmental context. We also provide our communities with safe syringe disposal, as well as overdose prevention and reversal training.

In 2023, PHRA logged 63,850 participant encounters through our physical Seattle locations, our multiple outreach van routes throughout King and Kitsap Counties, and our mail-order naloxone program serving all of Washington State. Through those 63,850 encounters, our programs distributed:

• 997,000 sterile syringes
• 41,050 injection alternatives kits
• 11,000 fentanyl test strips
• 61,000 naloxone (a.k.a Narcan) kits

All this is in addition to the many other supplies and services we offer: a variety of other health and hygiene supplies, used syringe disposal, overdose prevention and reversal training, HIV & Hep C testing and treatment, low-barrier suboxone treatment for those who want to change their relationship with opioids, reproductive health supplies and services, outdoor survival supplies, and much more! We have already seen significant increases in the need for our services this year and anticipate that to only continue.

Our work is fueled in part by community members like you who share our passion for harm reduction. Whether you have a lot or a little to share, your support enables us to engage, educate, and provide services for people who use drugs and many others in our communities. Please join us in our life-changing and life-saving work by making a donation today!