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class="breadcrumbs"><li class="first"><a href="/health/hivstdtb/">Home</a></li><li>Harm Reduction Centers</li></ol>  <div class="col-md-3">  <div class="panel green"> <div class="panel-heading"> <h3 class="panel-title">Syringe Access Saves Lives</h3> </div> <div class="panel-body"> <p>Watch the manager of a Harm Reduction Center explain how access to clean syringes empowers members of the community and protects public health from HIV, hepatitis and other bloodborne pathogens.</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/NJGov/status/1068990979766665222"><img src="/health/hivstdtb/images/SAP_video_still.PNG" alt="" width="175" /></a></p> </div> </div> <div class="panel blue"> <div class="panel-heading"> <h3 class="panel-title">ARCH Nurse Program</h3> </div> <div class="panel-body"> <p>The Access to Reproductive Care and HIV Services (ARCH) is a comprehensive initiative that embeds a licensed registered nurse at each of the Harm Reduction Centers (HRCs). The primary mission of the program is to identify pregnant clients at high risk for HIV infection and engage them in prenatal care.</p> <p>ARCH nurses counsel about reproductive health and reducing HIV transmission, conduct pregnancy and STD testing, offer adult vaccines, teach safer injection practices, provide wound care consultations and arrange referrals for preconception, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/prep/">PrEP</a>, prenatal and HIV specialty care.</p> <p>To navigate to the ARCH Directory please <a href="/health/hivstdtb/documents/w disclaimer_ARCH-DirectoryMar2022.pdf">click here</a>.</p> <p><a class="blue button" href="https://sites.google.com/view/arch-nurse-program/home">Learn More</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="panel darkblue"> <div class="panel-heading"> <h3 class="panel-title">Contact the Program</h3> </div> <div class="panel-body"> <p><strong>Harm Reduction Centers</strong><br /><strong>Division of HIV, STD and TB Services</strong><br />55 N. Willow Street, 3rd Floor<br />Trenton, NJ 08625-0363</p> <p><a href="mailto:HRC@doh.nj.gov">HRC@doh.nj.gov</a> <br /><a href="mailto:charla.cousar@doh.nj.gov">Charla.Cousar@doh.nj.gov</a><br /><br />Phone: <a href="tel:6099846050">609-984-6050</a><br />Fax: 609-292-6009</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-9 bodycopy">  <h2>Harm Reduction Centers</h2> <div class="clearA"></div>  <div class="wrap has-sidebar" id="contentCell">  <div class="mainText" id="introSection"> <p><strong>NOTICE: The COVID-19 emergency has significantly curtailed the hours of Harm Reduction Centers. Please call ahead for the most current hours of operation.</strong></p> <p>Harm Reduction Centers (HRCs), also known as Syringe Access Programs, are community-based programs that provide a safe, trauma-informed, non-stigmatizing space for people who use drugs to access sterile syringes, needles, injection equipment and the life-saving drug naloxone (also known as Narcan), along with education on safer use, overdose prevention and safe disposal of used equipment. Clients can bring used syringes to HRCs and leave with new sterile syringes. HRCs provide a comprehensive approach to harm reduction by integrating behavioral interventions and access to services to prevent and reduce the transmission of HIV, viral hepatitis, and other blood-borne diseases, and risk of overdose deaths. HRCs offer services via mobile sites and fixed sites. Some HRCs are housed in Drop-In Centers that provide clients with access to food, telephone, laundry services, restrooms, showers, and computer services.<br /><br /></p> <p><a class="button blue" href="/health/hivstdtb/documents/Public-Registered-Harm-Reduction-Centers.pdf">List of Authorized Harm Reduction Centers in New Jersey (PDF)</a><br /><br /></p> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hfmvZEeyXRg" width="448" height="252" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> </div>  <a name="1"></a>  <div class="sectionTitle"> About HRCs </div>  <div class="mainText" id=""> <p>Each Harm Reduction Center is staffed by an Access to Reproductive Care and HIV (ARCH) Nurse who provides services to prevent transmission of HIV and Hepatitis C from mother to child through the early identification of high-risk women (i.e., females of reproductive age who injects drugs). The New Jersey Harm Reduction Centers have served to bridge major health gaps in services for people who inject drugs (PWID) by providing services such as health screenings, pregnancy testing and linkage to prenatal care, nutritional counseling, reproductive counseling for women of child bearing age, vaccinations, condom distribution, safe sex education, safe injection practices, wound care, drug overdose prevention and reversal.</p> <p>The <a href="/health/hivstdtb/documents/w disclaimer_ARCH-DirectoryMar2022.pdf">ARCH nurses</a> located at Harm Reduction Centers offer the following:</p> <ul> <li>HIV and viral hepatitis testing and counseling with linkage to medical care</li> <li>Condoms</li> <li>Referral and linkage to medical care, mental health and social services, including drug treatment</li> <li>Overdose prevention education and access to Naloxone</li> <li>Safe disposal of injection equipment education</li> <li>Safe injection practices and wound care.</li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div id="Sidebar-Wrapper"> <div class="Sidebar-2"> <div class="panel-heading"> <h3 class="panel-title">New Harm Reduction Center Rules</h3> </div> <div class="panel-body"> <p><a class="blue button" href="/health/hivstdtb/documents/HRRegulations.pdf">New Harm Reduction Center Rules - PDF</a></p> <p><em>The official versions of any departmental rulemaking activity (notices of proposal or adoption) are published in the New Jersey Register and/or the New Jersey Administrative Code. Should there be any discrepancies between this document and the official version of the proposal or adoption, the official version will govern.</em></p> <p><a class="blue button" href="https://www.nj.gov/health/forms/hrc-1.pdf">Harm Reduction Center Registration Application (Appendix A)</a></p> <p><a class="blue button" href="https://www.nj.gov/health/forms/hrc-2.pdf">Harm Reduction Center Membership Card (Appendix B)</a></p> <p>Entities interested in applying to become an NJDOH-recognized Harm Reduction Center should reference the rules above and corresponding appendices for application instructions.</p> <p>Applications should be completed using Adobe Acrobat Reader and may be submitted to <a href="mailto:HRC@doh.nj.gov">HRC@doh.nj.gov</a>. Notice of approval or denial will be provided to applicants within 30 business days of submission.</p> </div> </div> <div class="Sidebar-1"> <div class="panel-heading"> <h3 class="panel-title">Additional Resources</h3> </div> <div class="panel-body"> <ul> <li><a href="https://njharmreduction.org/">NJ Harm Reduction Coalition</a></li> <li><a href="/health/hivstdtb/documents/NEWJERSEYHARMREDUCTIONCENTERSBIENNIALREPORT20-21.pdf">New Jersey Harm Reduction Centers Biennial Report 2020-2021</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="Sidebar-2"> <div class="panel-heading"> <h3 class="panel-title">Harm Reduction Workshop</h3> </div> <div class="panel-body"> <p>The New Jersey Department of Health hosted "Fighting Stigma to End the Overdose Epidemic - A Harm Reduction Workshop" on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 in Trenton, NJ.</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IgqSbhElXs0" width="200" height="113" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clearA"></div>            <div class="md-overlay"></div> </section> </div>  <div id="footer"> <div id="footerContent"> <a href="//www.nj.gov/health/opra/"><img src="/health/assets/template-images/state/opranj_trans.png" alt="OPRA- Open Public RecordAct" width="75" height="56" border="0" align="left" id="opra"></a> <div id="translateWrapper"> <div id="google_translate_element"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> function googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en', layout: google.translate.TranslateElement.InlineLayout.HORIZONTAL}, 'google_translate_element'); } </script><script type="text/javascript" src="//translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script> <div id="translateDisclaimer"><a href="/health/translator_disclaimer.shtml">Translator Disclaimer</a></div> </div> <style> #translateWrapper{ display: inline-block; margin: 0 0 0 14px; position: relative; top: 7px; } .skiptranslate.goog-te-gadget { color: #b8d2e3; } .skiptranslate.goog-te-gadget div{ color: #000000; } </style> <div id="eweb"> <ul class="footerMenu"> <li><a href="//www.nj.gov/health/feedback.shtml" aria-label="Contact Us: NJ.gov" class="stateLinks">Contact Us</a></li> | <li><a href="//www.nj.gov/nj/privacy.html" class="stateLinks">Privacy Notice</a></li> | <li><a href="//www.nj.gov/nj/legal.html" class="stateLinks">Legal Statement</a></li> | <li><a href="//www.nj.gov/nj/accessibility.html" class="stateLinks">Accessibility Statement</a></li> | <li><a href="//www.nj.gov/"><img src="/health/assets/template-images/state/footernj.png" alt="nj state elogo" border="0"></a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="state"> <span>Statewide: </span> <ul class="footerMenu"> <li><a href="//www.nj.gov/nj/">NJ Home</a></li> | <li><a href="//www.nj.gov/nj/gov/njgov/alphaserv.html">Services A to Z</a></li> | <li><a href="//www.nj.gov/nj/gov/deptserv/">Departments/Agencies</a></li> | <li><a href="//www.nj.gov/faqs/">FAQs</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="dept"> <span>Department:</span> <ul class="footerMenu"> <li><a href="//www.nj.gov/health/">NJDOH Home</a></li> | <li><a href=" //www.nj.gov/health/commiss/contact/">TTY Relay </a></li> | <li><a href="//www.nj.gov/health/topics.shtml">Topic A to Z</a></li> | <li><a href="//www.nj.gov/health/commiss/org-chart/">Programs/Services</a></li> | <li><a href="//www.nj.gov/health/documents/notice_of_privacy_practices.pdf" target="_blank">Notice of Privacy Practices</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="copyright"> Copyright © State of New Jersey, <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> </script> <noscript>1996-2013</noscript> <br> Department of Health<br> P. 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