Nothing But Kindness links people with community resources and then guides them, empowering them to rise above the challenges of life’s most stigmatized situations. These include:• Substance use: offering connections to harm reduction services; recovery support (ATS/CSS, support groups, and more).• Homelessness: offering connections to sheltering/housing services.• Abuse: offering connections to domestic, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse support.• Mental Health issues: offering connections for people experiencing emotional or psychiatric challenges.• Self-injurious Behaviors• Employment Issues: offering connections to vocational/employment support.• Food Insecurity• Food Restriction/Purging• LGBTQ+ issues• Gender Identity• Sex Work• Gambling Compulsion-Nothing But Kindness VisionNothing But Kindness empowers people experiencing stigmatized situations to connect with and utilize resources on their own terms, so that they can find meaningful, non-judgmental support and live happier lives, as they see fit.Nothing But Kindness ValuesIt takes great courage to ask for help. In response, rather than assume we know what a person needs and impose that upon them, Nothing But Kindness (NBK) asks “what do you need?” After listening deeply, we offer compassion, links to community resources, and non-judgmental/trauma-informed counsel, toward achieving a person’s most desired outcome.Each individual engaging NBK has 100% agency and autonomy in charting their own course, in the harm reduction tradition.They control the decision-making process, pace, and depth of engagement — and can start/stop/pause engagement whenever they see fit.NBK encourages a diverse staff with wide-ranging lived experiences, professional experiences, and perspectives. We believe that there are infinite paths to support and help others.Above all, NBK’s intention is to pay it forward — and in the process, treat each person we engage with kindness...

Supporting populations struggling with chaotic substance consumption, unstable housing, and resource insecurities. Advocacy for folx I support.Advise on trauma informed scalable infrastructure reform, and evolution, My perspectives come thru the world view and lived experience of a self-identified person in long term recovery from opiates, and once upon a time, an unsheltered person.

Trained in:-Recovery Coach-Human Rights Officer-Motivational Interviewing-Addictions 101: Recovery Framework -Intentional Peer Support (IPS)-Certified Peer Specialist (CPS)-Hearing Voices Facilitator (HVN)-Self-Injurious Supports-Opioid overdose response -Supporting Extreme Thoughts-Emotional CPR-CPR/First Aid-Homeless/Unsheltered resourcesAdoring father, musician, social justice advocate.

A collection of organizations and community members focused on supporting folks struggling with unstable sheltering.

The MCSP seeks to be a catalyst for action and a powerful voice for change. We are citizens, community leaders, advocates, legislators, public health officials, mental health leaders, survivors of suicide attempts and families who have lost loved ones to suicide — working together to stem the tide of suicide. We will only be successful in our mission to save lives if we all work in partnership.

A podcast series doing deep-dives into the harm reduction philosophies, featuring guests as subject matter experts on a diverse, broad spectrum of lived experiences and real life struggles.

I held space at the Manna Community Center (classic drop-in style presence), with radical harm reduction and peer/lived experience foundations. Facilitated linkage to community resources, Harm Reduction street outreach and post-overdose response, unsheltered street outreach and advocacy, recovery coaching, peer support specialist, facilitate the ResumeUpdate/Job Search program, Overdose Prevention/Narcan training, community engagement, public relations, social media, 3rd-party collaborative relationship management, solicitation of resources and donations

Meeting people, where they’re at, with kindness and compassion.

-Co-facilitate Substance Recovery Group-Co-facilitate Voice Hearers Support Group-Facilitate Music Group-Western Mass Hoarding Task Force-The Next Step Collaborative-Chairperson at The Northampton Recovery Center