Areas of Interest:
• Aboriginal Health
• Access and Resources to Health Care
• Addictions
• Cultural Safety
• Food Security
• Health Education and Advocacy
• Health of Sex Workers
• Health Technology
• Health, Human Rights, and Liberation Medicine
• Housing
• LGBT
• Prison Medicine
• Women's Health Inequity
• Youth and Children's Health Inequity
• Customers of sex workers, Trauma Informed Care
Description:
The Street Nurse Program (SNP) works to create an environment where individuals and communities can make and sustain healthier choices that reduce vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections and HIV. The program provides STI/HIV prevention services to people who do not access mainstream health care. The nursing services offered encompass clinical care, education and training, project development and implementation, research and advocacy. The registered nurses work in a combination of traditional clinic settings and non-traditional settings such as streets, shelters, hotels, parks and alleys. Services are also provided in provincial and federal corrections facilities, and detox centres, and STI/HIV prevention education is offered on First Nations reserves throughout British Columbia. The program also works with the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community, with sex workers, men and women who use drugs and street youth. The principles of harm reduction, health promotion and population health are fundamental to the program.
Website:
http://www.bccdc.ca/SexualHealth/Programs/StreetOutreachNurseProgram/default.htm
Address:
Outreach / Street Nurse Program
#200 - 687 Powell Street
Vancouver BC V6A 1H3
Phone: 604-707-2790
Fax: 604-707-2794
Outreach / Street Nurse Program Leader
Glenn Doupe
E-mail: glenn.doupe@bccdc.ca
Phone: 604-707-2793
Cell: 604-315-7721
Opportunities for Involvement:
Students interested in helping out with research projects at the SNP may contact glenn.doupe@bccdc.ca