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Clinic 555 in the Community
The Clinic 555 mobile CareVan is bringing health and wellness into communities that don’t have easy access to health care services. The goal is to expand reproductive and other public health services to underserved communities.
Services
- Screening and testing for sexually transmitted infections (STI), HIV, Hepatitis C.
- Providing safer sex products.
- Telehealth or in-person visits with Nurse Practitioners for sexual health exams, PrEP, STI, Hepatitis C treatment and birth control.
- Providing harm reduction supplies (naloxone and syringe exchange for safer use).
Find us in your neighborhood
Drug Take Back Day
Saturday, April 20, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Did you know? 75% of people who abuse prescription pain relievers get them from friends or relatives. Safely dispose of unwanted, expired and unused medicine for free. Safe disposal of medicine helps prevent crime, drug abuse and accidental poisoning. Not flushing medicines down the drain or disposing of them in the trash helps protect our environment. Drive-through drop-off being offered for easy disposal: opuscoalition.org/drugtakeback
The Clinic 555 CareVan will be onsite offering:
- STI, HIV and Hepatitis C testing.
- Pregnancy tests.
- Syringe exchange.
- Safer sex supplies.
- Sharps disposal.
- Drug paraphernalia take back.
Partner with the CareVan
Interested in having the mobile CareVan attend your next community event?
Do you have clients that could benefit from the CareVan visiting your location every month?
Community partnerships
The mobile CareVan is currently working with multiple community partners to serve their clients, participants and community members:
- Treatment centers (opioids, Substance Use Disorders and mental health).
- Shelters (domestic violence).
- Programs helping people with sex work.
- Drop-in centers (youth and adult).
- Unsheltered communities.
- Jails and Correctional Facilities.
- Community Colleges.
- LGBTQIA+ Communities.
Past community events
The Clinic 555 Outreach Team provided services to community members at the following events in 2023.
In the news
Read more about the services the CareVan is providing in our communities:
The Clinic 555 mobile CareVan was funded by the Title X Telehealth grant.