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Advocates urge council to keep budget amendment funding for harm-reduction drop-in center
Summary
Community advocates told the Austin Public Health Committee that a budget amendment intended to fund a harm-reduction drop-in center is being redirected to Integral Care; they asked committee members to help ensure funds go to the drop-in center as originally intended.
Community advocates who pushed for a budget amendment last summer told the Austin Public Health Committee that the funds intended to support Austin’s only harm-reduction drop-in center are being redirected to Integral Care and asked council members to restore the original intent.
Kate Graziani of Vocal said the amendment originated with the community and the Community Investment Budget Coalition and “was intended to be an investment into our harm reduction drop in center, our one and only harm reduction drop in center, as part of our overdose prevention efforts.” She told the committee the drop-in center’s peer-based model fills…
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