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REDUCING OVERDOSE | ABBOTSFORD RESPONSE
Join us for International Overdose Awareness Day!
We invite organizations, community groups, and service providers to join our International Overdose Awareness Day Resource Fair and help create a welcoming space for connection, education, and support. Together, we can showcase the many services, programs, and people working to build a healthier, safer, and more compassionate community for everyone.
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Join us in recognizing the people who
make our community stronger.
This International Overdose Awareness Day, ROAR (Reducing Overdose Abbotsford Response) is proud to present "Compassion in Action: The People Behind the Response," a community initiative honouring the individuals whose kindness, dedication, and commitment support people affected by the toxic drug crisis. We invite you to nominate a peer, first responder, outreach worker, healthcare provider, volunteer, family member, advocate, or community member whose compassion has made a meaningful impact. Selected nominees will be honoured during a special Compassion in Action Recognition Celebration in early Fall 2026. Submit a nomination by August 15th at the link below and help us celebrate the people who make Abbotsford a more caring, connected, and compassionate community.
Inspiring Change
Collaborating for Compassionate Communities: Community Action Tables
Addressing the toxic drug crisis requires intervention at many levels - from treatment, to harm reduction, to health promotion. Community Action Tables (CATs) were formed as a way to mobilize communities to target local resources where they are most needed. They are multi-sector partnerships that include people with lived and living experience and a broad range of community stakeholders.
ROAR was established to support and facilitate local partnerships, coordinate programs and services, address gaps, and plan for a collaborative, caring, creative community response to the overdose crisis caused by a toxic illicit drug supply.
Members include representatives of non-profit organizations, faith-based organizations, health authorities, the City of Abbotsford, pharmacies, peers (people with lived or living experience with substance use) & family members. The overdose public health emergency is complex and has no single one-size-fits-all solution.
How to Get Involved
One of the ways you can take part in this vital work is by volunteering. Spread the word about all that Reducing Overdose, Abbotsford Response is doing, and build community awareness. Contact us for more information.
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Advocate
Contact local officials to advocate for policies, strategies, and services, which aim to assist people who use legal and illegal drugs to live safer and healthier lives. Host discussions and help us educate others while supporting us in providing low-barrier resources to those who need them.
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Stay in Touch
Use social media and email to stay in touch with us and the work we are doing. Be sure to follow us at the links below and share, share share! It takes many hands and minds to do this work, so we appreciate you introducing others to our efforts and the work of everyone in harm reduction.
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