TRIP Project

Repost from 🙌 ALL WELCOME: Do you want to know what’s in your drugs in real time? Come to our onsite drug checking pop-up this Thursday!
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and test strips will be used to check samples onsite

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IN B4 MIDNIGHT! 😅😬😅
Sometimes, in it do be like that. Happy to all our sisters (and not just cis-ters) in !!
Remember, YOU ARE LOVED! 😍

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone from all of us at Trip! Project! 😍 We hope you are all having a fun and safe day in celebration of love, whatever form that may take. However you choose to celebrate today (or maybe this weekend), swipe through for tons of important info and resources for having safer, more fun, and more informed s*x! 🥰😘❤️

Trip! is recruiting for the upcoming party season! Volunteer trainings start on February 22nd, so be sure to apply ASAP if you're interested in getting involved. Our volunteer trainings are quite in-depth and we cover all things harm reduction. From OD prevention and naloxone administration, to compassionate care, to s*xual health and consent, to actually learning the hands on skills and personal boundaries awareness required for peer support work! If you have ever been interested in learning more about harm reduction, or want to be a leading voice for harm reduction in your own community, then click on the link in the comments! We're super excited to meet you all! 🥰

To all of our friends, followers, and supporters, please share widely across all your socials! We so appreciate your continued support! 💜

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SNAP tickets are on sale now, and prices increase after Valentine's Day.

Get yours today and join us on March 8th for a night to remember, all in support of people living with and at-risk of HIV.

www.actoronto.org/SNAP

Happy Lunar New Year from us at the Trip! Project! 🧧🎉🏮🐲

Our volunteer applications are still open, link in our linktree! Trainings will be Thursday evenings in Toronto starting Feb 22nd!

Volunteer appreciation post! Here at TRIP! Project, we are a very small team, and we could not do all that we do without the support of our incredible volunteers. They all help us and each other serve our collective communities in ways that we simply couldn't do alone, and we love and appreciate our volunteers INFINITELY for everything that they contribute to the project. Thank you for your time, your energy, your care, and your support! TRIP! loves you! ❤️😍❤️
If you're 16-29 and interested in becoming a member of our incredible team and community, and being a leader and voice for harm reduction in your own social circles, please go to the volunteer application link that can be found via our Linktree in our Insta bio! Trainings start in a few weeks, and we are so excited to meet you all and make new lasting connections and friendships. DM if you have any questions! 🥰

We're having another Kandi Jam, but this time with a twist! If you're planning to attend, send us 3-5 of your favourite songs, and we will use them to build a playlist we can all listen to while we craft! Song choices definitely don't have to be limited to "rave appropriate" genres or electronic music specifically, so lets get EXTRA creative with our kandi-making and have a musical "jam" session at the same time! January 25th, 168 Bathurst St., 5-7pm. Looking forward to seeing everyone there! 🥰

Happy 2024 from Trip! We hope your entry into this new year has had some fun and some restful moments so far! 🥳🛌

We’re jazzed to be starting up our NEW volunteer trainings this winter, apply to join our dope team of harm reduction youth warriors by scanning the QR code or following the link in our linktree! 💓

We are also jazzed to welcome you to our January Kandi Jam on Thurs Jan 25 @ 5-7pm at 168 Bathurst St 🫶

If you want harm reduction supplies or info for your upcoming event or just your own friend group, get in touch! 💖🫓💉🎱💊🍹

Today is World AIDS Day. The first ever World AIDS Day was observed on December 1, 1988. This year, World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNAIDS have said that the theme is ‘let communities lead’. The theme recognizes and celebrates that communities play an important role in the fight against AIDS, but it’s also a call to action to the decision makers to fully support the work of communities and to clear away the barriers that stand in the way. AIDS-related deaths have fallen significantly, and HIV infections are at the lowest point since the 1980s. Even with a huge change in numbers, there is still lots of work to do and support needed.
Here at Trip! we advocate for safe s*x and safe partying, and can provide support and resources to those who want or are in need. Please feel free to reach out for any questions or support! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Trip! Presents: Drug Checking in Toronto Webinar! 🔬💊🫓
Thurs Nov 23 @ 6-8pm

Join Trip! & members of the Toronto Drug Checking Service as we discuss the ins and outs of getting your drugs checked in Toronto! Find out about recent trends, latest technologies, hours and locations of checking services and take a walk through what the user experience is like! For youth who use drugs or those connected to youth who use drugs - this is aimed to be a comfortable space to discuss harm reduction and drugs!

Use the QR code to register, or click the link in our bio, DM us or email us :) webinar link will be shared with registrants shortly before it begins 🩷

Hey all! Have you ever been interested in learning more about dialectical behaviour therapy skills? And learning how those skills can be used as harm reduction? Then please join us for an amazing in-person workshop at 168 Bathurst St, facilitated by our Trip! peers, about DBT and harm reduction! We’ll be teaching mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills, and how those can be integrated with harm reduction. We’ll have lots of items and toys to self soothe with and fidget with. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. We look forward to seeing you there!

We’re doing another kandi jam!

When: Nov 2, 4 - 5:45pm
Where: Parkdale queen west health centre (168 Bathurst Street)

We will have harm reduction supplies available (naloxone kits, party packs, etc!), peer workers to talk to, and light snacks. Bring your own kandi making supplies, we’ll also have some available!

The transition into colder weather can be hard for us all! Whether you’re stressed because of school, have seasonal depression, missing the parties/events from the summer and the socializing that comes with it, or stressing about dealing with family stuff during holidays, here are a few tips to help you embrace the seasonal changes!

Join Trip! for a youth Halloween bonfire at Dufferin Grove Park Thurs Oct 26, 6-8pm! (Weather dependent). Are you a young person who parties? Come hang out with us and chat about drugs, drug checking, harm reduction & what’s going on in our scenes & lives while we hang out by a cozy fire and snack!

We’ll provide a ton of snacks 🍿, veggie dogs🌭, s’more making supplies🍡, naloxone (& training if you need it) and other harm reduction supplies for you to take and the fire🔥, you bring yourselves, your friends, your friendly dogs 🐾& a costume 🦹if you want to get in the spooky spirit! 👻🎃

Trip! Project and Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre partnered with the Centre for Community Based Research to co-design and conduct a community-based evaluation in order to explore the extent to which the current Trip! project model is aligned with: current drug using trends amongst diverse youth in the community; and PQWCHC’s values, vision, and mission of providing “for people where, when, and how they need it.”

We value the community’s opinions, so please join us at Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre (168 Bathurst St) on October 23rd, 4pm to 6pm, for a discussion and to come connect

There’s still a few weeks of warm weather left, and that means a few more weeks of rave season! Come chill in the park with us possibly our last in the park Kandi Jam of the year! 🍂🍁

Where?: Alexandra Park (check our Instagram story day of for exact location details)

When?: 3-5pm

Other details:

- Some supplies will be provided but feel free to bring your own! You can even bring art you want to work on if you don’t feel like making Kandi!
- Free naloxone and harm reduction kits will be given out
- Light snacks provided!

Hope to see everyone there! 🌻🌙

We know today can be a difficult day for many. We hope you’re taking care of yourself and those close to you and remembering good times with those we’ve lost 💜 If you feel like joining in community today for International Overdose Awareness Day here are a few things going on:

• Trip! will be doing some Kandi making in Alexandra Park 2-5pm today with harm reduction supplies, naloxone training & snacks (check our stories for a pin this aft)

• and others are doing a Flag raising ceremony at City Hall 11:30am

• & others are hosting a BBQ, banner making, harm reduction & naloxone training, speakers, drumming and a cable vigil at Barbara Hall Park on Church St

• PQWCHC (QW & Parkdale locations) are hosting afternoon activities with games, harm reduction swag, naloxone training, food & memorial banner making

If you know of other events going on today in Toronto please share them!

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Today, August 31st, is International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD). IOAD was initiated in 2001 by Sally J Finn in Melbourne. It's the world's largest campaign to end overdose, remember those who we've lost from overdose without stigma, and recognize the grief of the people left behind. IOAD has a theme each year, and this year's theme is "recognizing those people who go unseen", which is about acknowledging people in our communities who are affected by overdose but might go unseen in the crisis. Overdose has a big impact on various people, from loved ones to community members, harm reduction workers to first responders. It's an important day to many across the globe, and there are lots of ways we can be there for each other, find supports, and get involved. Specifically in Toronto, there are many events happening today for International Overdose Awareness Day, some of which can be found post on our stories. The official IOAD website, overdoseday.com, also has great information. There, you can post a tribute to a loved one who has passed away from an overdose, and find educational resources about overdose and overdose prevention. We also have a post on the Trip! website about overdose and grief which contains resources as well. We're not alone, especially not today. Sending lots of love to all

THIS IS A MINDFULNESS CHECK IN POST.

These questions are designed to help you check in and practice mindfulness mentally, physically and spiritually.

#1 (Mental): What are you doing at the moment? If you’re not doing much and are just scrolling, how do you feel about the content you’re seeing? What are you feeling at this very moment? 🦋

#2 (Physical): What does your body need right now? Have you had enough water, food, sleep, or activity? What would feel the best for your body right in this moment? If you’re having trouble to connect with your body, try sitting up and breathing deeply in, and just observing what feelings or urges come up! 🦋

#3 (Spiritual): What can you be grateful for in this very moment? Even if it’s for having water, a roof over your head, friends, pets, clothes, even if your life sucks at the moment, find one thing in this very second that you’re grateful to have! Heck even if it’s just the device you’re reading this from and an internet connection. 🦋

Hopefully practicing these questions and checking in helped a bit! Practicing mindfulness regularly can be an important part of mental health upkeep. Hopefully we can all find ways to integrate more of it into our days!

We’re doing another Kandi Jam in the park!

This time we’ll be at Alexandra Park, right in the shade near the pool area (pool is located near the north west end of the park, close to dundas street) 💕

Thursday is going to be a very hot and sunny day so make sure to bring your sunscreen and some water! 🌞 Feel free to go for a swim and then stop by to make some kandi, pick up free harm reduction supplies, and chat with other youth!

Flyer look familiar? That's because we're having another creative art drop-in! It's Natalia's last drop-in as a Trip! Peer and she wanted to get all arts and crafty with y'all! So come send her off in style while we raid the Trip! art cupboard for supplies to: paint with watercolours, do some colouring, fold origami, make collages, decorate birdhouses, or whatever other creative thing you might want to bring along! We'll be starting at 4:30pm on Thursday June 29th in the large program room at 168 Bathurst St. Hope to see lots of friendly faces there! 🥰

Let’s talk naloxone 💉

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💖HAPPY PRIDE! 🥰✨🎉

Join Trip! at Christie Pits on Thursday June 22nd 4-8pm for our youth pride kandi jam picnic!!
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4-6pm: We’ll have tons of food and snacks, kandi making supplies🫶, fun q***r colouring🌈🖍, harm reduction supplies 💊🎱💉🫓and swag🛍, s*xy time supplies 💦and more!

6-8pm we’re hosting a s*xual health & relationships workshop! If you wanna stick around ✨

Bring something to sit on (we’ll have some blankets too), your friends, and your awesome selves and see you there! 🙌