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Jim Stewart,Director, First Church Shelter. Founding & Steering Committee member, @SIFMA_Now! Tweets/opinions his own

11 Garden Street Cambridge
Joined August 2012
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SAVE THE DATE! Sarah Patricia Ahern and @Etel_Haxhiaj will be among those receiving 2026 Mitch Snyder Awards Sunday October 25 1PM First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden Street Cambridge!
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Contact Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery Chair Mindy Domb (617) 722-2060 Tell her Massachusetts needs Overdose Prevention Centers NOW. Let her know you want her Committee to favorably report out H2196 BEFORE March 18. Ask your friends to do so, as well.
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Make sure you let the Joint Committee On Mental Health, Substance Use & Recovery know it's time for Massschusetts to make Overdose Prevention Centers available in the Commonwealth malegislature.gov/Events/Hea… They save lives, ⬇️ IV infections and ⬆️ participation in treatment #ma4opc
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Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang thinks it's ok for @CambMA to shut down the Transitional Wellness Center, ADDING to the unhoused in our community. Tell him [email protected] NOW is not the time put more people on our streets!
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D4DPR Position Paper on "Prioritizing Opioid Settlement Funds for Overdose Prevention Centers" ⁦@RonMariano⁩ Overdose Prevention Centers (OPC)!save lives, ⬇️IV related infections and ⬆️participation in treatment! #sayyes2opc ⁦⁦@SIFMA_NOW⁩ d4dpr.org/post/d4dpr-positio…
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Remembering Chris Alba last night.
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First Church Shelter presents the Annual Doris Beauvais Luncheon and Mitch Snyder Awards on October 27 – First Church Cambridge~ SAVE THE DATE firstchurchcambridge.org/new…
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Conference Committee started work on Substance Use Disorder (SUD) bill this week.Tell @adrianmadaro @SenJohnVelis @RonMariano [email protected] to include Overdose Prevention Centers (OPC) OPS, save lives, ⬇️IV related infections & ⬆️participation in treatment @SIFMA_NOW
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SAVE THE DATE- Sunday October 27 Doris Beavais Luncheon and presentation of 2024 Mitch Snyder Awards youtu.be/Ur0lH79vmaw 1PM First Church Cambridge 11 Garden Street Cambridge
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Ask @KateCook5 when @MassGovernor will FINALY take steps make Overdose Prevention Centers (OPC) available in #mapoli? OPC SAVES LIVES, ⬇️IV related infections and ⬆️ participation in treatment. #savelivesnow #sayyes2opc #ma4opc @SIFMA_NOW
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I was proud to be working, with my First Church Shelter co workers, and in solidarity with all those, everywhere, who were "on the job today." #LaborDay2024
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FIRST CHURCH SHELTER retweeted
On #InternationalOverdoseAwarenessDay we honor, remember & mourn the beloved & beautiful people we've lost to PREVENTABLE #OD death We recommit to organizing alongside PWUD for #YestoSCS in #mapoli Show #OPCsolidarity & demand #SIFMAnow! sifmanow.carrd.co/ #IOAD2024
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THOUSANDS lives lost, EVERY year but elected officials in MA refuse to make Overdose Prevention Centers (OPC) legal. OPCs SAVE LIVES, ⬇️IV related infections and ⬆️participation in treatment. @maura_healey @RonMariano [email protected] #sayyes2opc @SIFMA_NOW #ma4opc
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SAVE THE DATE: October 27 Dianne Kuzia Hill of @MyBrothersTable will be among those receiving the 2024 Mitch Snyder Award! 1PM 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.
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SUNDAY OCTOBER 27; save the date! Lynn Wencus @team_sharing and Chris Alves @PAACA among those receiving the 2024 Mitch Snyder Award. 1PM First Church Cambridge 11 Garden Street Cambridge
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FIRST CHURCH SHELTER retweeted
💜TAKE ACTION💜 Today MA Senate passed a substance use bill incl #OPC! Tomorrow's the last day of the legislative session. 14,874 people in MA died of PREVENTABLE #Overdose since first #SIFMANOW bill in 2016. Demand #mapoli say #YestoSCS to save lives! sifmanow.carrd.co
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Find your state senator malegislature.gov/Search/Fin…. Tell to support Overdose Prevention Centers (OPC) in the Senate Substance Use Disorder bill this week. OPCs SAVE LIVES ⬇️ IV related infections & ⬆️ participation in treatment. @SIFMA_NOW #savelivesnow #ma4opc
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Idk how you sleep at night moving people, in the rain, without offering alternative shelter, a day before you said youd move them, so now they have no time to pack anything up. Unfortunately tho we can’t have rich ppl seeing poor people when their kids are graduating 😐
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