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About Us

We are CBD residents, business owners, and workers calling on the Victorian Government to open a supervised injecting service in our city to save lives and connect people to the supports they need.

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For too long we’ve had other people speaking on our behalf, and we want our voices to be heard. We love this city and we love living here, but there is a crisis and we can’t sit by and do nothing.

 

We want our city to be a place where everyone can flourish and belong. Where everyone has somewhere to turn for support when they need it. Yet today, people dealing with a diagnosable health condition of drug addiction are dying in our laneways and public toilets.  

 

Every day without an injecting service in the CBD, we risk further loss of life, we risk leaving behind more grieving families. 

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We are heartbroken about the number of lives that continue to be lost from drug overdoses, especially because we know that if a supervised injecting service was available, a great number of those people may still be alive. We can no longer ignore the problem. The CBD community is crying out for a solution that will save lives, free-up ambulances, decrease syringe litter and connect people to the supports they need.  

 

Melbournians are compassionate at their core and we want to see an evidence-and-health based solution to the drug crisis. 

A comprehensive CBD health service that offers a range of health care, homelessness and other social supports, alongside a supervised injecting service, would help people access the health and care that they need, saving countless lives. 

 

We understand that some members of the community are unsure about supervised injecting centres as they have become a highly politicised issue, but if we take out the politics the reality is that they save lives, move drug use off the streets and connect people to care and treatment. 

 

Everyone in the community wants the same thing, and that is to find a better way to respond to public drug use that allows us to save lives, connect people with support and reduce the impact of public drug use on the broader community. 

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Email: keepourcityalive@gmail.com

Phone: 0467 816 843

Need to talk to someone?

We're a campaign, not a support service but we encourage you to no go it alone. Please reach out to the following agencies for help.

Family Drug Support: 1300 368 186 or fds.org.au

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Melbourne support service & agency guide: click here

 

Directline: 1800 888 236 or directline.org.au

 

Lifeline: 13 11 14 or lifeline.org.au

 

Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 or beyondblue.org.au

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Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 or kidshelpline.com.au

 

Headspace: 1800 650 890 or headspace.org.au

 

Resources for families who have lost a child: compassionatefriends.org

We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which this campaign is based, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin and pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.

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We acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection the Wurundjeri, Bunurong, Dja Dja Wurrung, Taungurung and Wadawurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin have to this unique place for more than 2000 generations.

© 2023 By Keep Our City Alive

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