About Life-Saving Naloxone

Naloxone (sometimes referred to by the brand name, Narcan) is a medication that reverses overdoses from opioids such as heroin and prescription painkillers. Opioids repress the urge to breathe – when someone is overdosing on opioids, they stop breathing and may die.
In New York, residents can get naloxone at participating pharmacies and some community-based organizations. For a list of participating pharmacies, view this PDF by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

To learn more about naloxone from the NYC Department of Health click here.

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Where To Get Naloxone

Community-based organizations and hospitals
Local Pharmacy
- You can get naloxone at most pharmacies on Staten Island by prescription. Visit your local pharmacy for more information.
- Select pharmacies can provide naloxone no prescription required and free of charge. Ask about naloxone during your next visit.

How to Administer Naloxone

About TYSA

The TYSA coalition is a data-driven collaboration aimed at leveraging the power of collective impact to improve behavioral health outcomes for Staten Island’s youth. Through the lens of equity and inclusion, this project seeks to drive major improvements in youth substance use and mental health prevention, treatment, and recovery on Staten Island. TYSA seeks to:

Engage diverse communities and constituencies, inclusive of lived experience, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability status and all of the other rich diversity on Staten Island
Achieve major gains, not minor improvements
Use clear metrics, at the youth, organization, and system-levels
Support the success of partner implementers
Align and improve efforts to achieve greater collective impact
Avoid reinventing the wheel or duplicating existing existing programs
Identify and address disparities
Identify root causes such as adverse childhood experiences, and support community level change
Create a culture of equity in systems and partnerships

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Mission & Vision

SIPCW seeks to create a healthier Staten Island by bringing together partner organizations and community members to address pressing wellness needs and give all Staten Islanders a chance to live their best lives. The focus of our efforts is in communities and populations with the greatest health inequities such as BIPOC and LGBTQ+ identifying.

Our vision is that our entire community has a shared understanding of the systemic conditions such as racism, classism, and heterosexism, contributing to wellness and the resources to ensure that all individuals and families have the knowledge and access to what they need to live their healthiest lives.

Recognizing the Indigenous History of SI

The Staten Island Partnership for Community Wellness is located on Munsee Lenape land. Native communities called present-day Staten Island Aquehonga Manacknong. The Lenape sold the land we now call Staten Island to European colonizers under duress in 1670. To learn more about this transaction, see Andrew Lipman’s article, “A Hard Bargain.” Today, roughly 300 Ramapough Lunaape tribal members live on Staten Island.

To learn more about land acknowledgement and the Indigenous lands where you reside, view this map of Native lands or text your zip code to 1-855-917-5263