SAFER TOGETHER
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Mission Statement
To improve safety, health outcomes and well-being in our environments by uplifting community members as leaders and working together to increase equitable access and use of free tools and resources by San Francisco community members.
About This Cause
Safer Together was established in November 2020 in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on low-income families of color in San Francisco. From 2021-2022 we mobilized COVID-19 resources toward low-income communities of color in the San Francisco Bay Area at a time where rapid tests could only be accessed by the affluent and privileged. From this time up to the present, we have evolved our focus from surveillance testing to comprehensive community care, wherein we combine community outreach, education initiatives, and leadership development so that all community members have agency over their respective health journeys. Across all our programs we build leaders from within the community rather than outside of it, and we commit to the distribution of free resources to individuals who would otherwise not have access to care due to lack of insurance, low-income status, precarious immigration standing, and other barriers. Our specific programs include Safer Air, a clean air initiative that provides families and organizations with no-cost air filters, and Safer Care, a harm reduction movement that synthesizes peer support with the distribution of overdose prevention tools. To date we have administered over 85,000 COVID-19 rapid tests, distributed over 230 clean air filters, and through overdose antidote distribution have saved over 81 lives and counting. Our efforts have earned us recognition from the Governor of California as a Trusted Community Messenger - one of three organizations in the region to be bestowed this honor.