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Category: Syringe services program

A large white unmarked van used to provide mobile services for a syringe services program.

TNE063 Mobile services van for syringe services program

A large white unmarked van used to provide mobile services for a syringe services program.

Mobile services / Syringe services program
A client of a mobile services van for a syringe services program reaches out to take some safer use supplies from a staff person in the van.

TNE062 Client of mobile services van takes supplies from staff

A client of a mobile services van for a syringe services program reaches out to take some safer use supplies from a staff person in the van.

Client patient / Interaction / Mobile services / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A client of a mobile services van for a syringe services program reaches out to take some safer use supplies from a staff person in the van.

TNE061 Client of mobile services van takes supplies from staff

A client of a mobile services van for a syringe services program reaches out to take some safer use supplies from a staff person in the van.

Client patient / Interaction / Mobile services / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A client in a tan hoodie stands outside the mobile services van for a syringe services program and points at supplies inside the van.

TNE060 Client of mobile services van points at supplies inside the van

A client in a tan hoodie stands outside the mobile services van for a syringe services program and points at supplies inside the van.

Client patient / Interaction / Mobile services / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A client in a tan hoodie stands outside the mobile services van for a syringe services program and reaches out to take a red sharps container (to safely dispose of use syringes) from a staff person inside the van.

TNE059 Client of mobile services van takes a sharp container

A client in a tan hoodie stands outside the mobile services van for a syringe services program and reaches out to take a red sharps container (to safely dispose of used syringes) from a staff person inside the van.

Client patient / Interaction / Mobile services / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A staff person of a syringe services program’s mobile services van wearing a blue surgical mask hands a brown bag of safer use supplies to a smiling client wearing a tan hoodie.

TNE058 Staff of mobile services van hands bag of safer use supplies to client

A staff person of a syringe services program’s mobile services van wearing a blue surgical mask hands a brown bag of safer use supplies to a smiling client wearing a tan hoodie.

Client patient / Interaction / Mobile services / Provider staff / Safer sex supplies / Syringe services program
A staff person of a syringe services program’s mobile services van wearing a blue surgical mask hands some blue latex gloves from a box to a smiling client wearing a tan hoodie.

TNE057 Staff of mobile services van hands supplies to client

A staff person of a syringe services program’s mobile services van wearing a blue surgical mask hands some blue latex gloves from a box to a smiling client wearing a tan hoodie.

Client patient / Interaction / Mobile services / Provider staff / Syringe services program
Staff in a syringe services program’s mobile services van laugh warmly as a client in a tan hoodie talks and gestures with their hands.

TNE056 Staff of mobile services van laughing with client

Staff in a syringe services program’s mobile services van laugh warmly as a client in a tan hoodie talks and gestures with their hands.

Client patient / Interaction / Mobile services / Provider staff / Syringe services program
A staff person of a syringe services program’s mobile services van is seated inside the van with a clipboard asking for some information from a client standing outside wearing a tan hoodie.

TNE055 Staff of mobile services van asks for information from client

A staff person of a syringe services program’s mobile services van is seated inside the van with a clipboard asking for some information from a client standing outside wearing a tan hoodie.

Client patient / Interaction / Mobile services / Provider staff / Syringe services program
A client wearing a tan hoodie and glasses reaches out to take some information (it might be an envelope for drug checking) from a staff person in a syringe services program’s mobile services van. Another staff person is seated inside the van with a clipboard and smiling.

TNE054 Client takes information from staff of mobile services van

A client reaches out to take some information from a staff person in a syringe services program’s mobile services van.

Client patient / Interaction / Mobile services / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A client wearing a tan hoodie reaches out to take a brown paper bag of safer use supplies from a staff person in a syringe services program’s mobile services van. The staff person is wearing a blue surgical mask.

TNE053 Client receiving supplies from mobile services van staff

A client wearing a tan hoodie reaches out to take a brown paper bag of safer use supplies from a staff person in a syringe services program’s mobile services van. The staff person is wearing a blue surgical mask.

Client patient / Interaction / Mobile services / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Row of shelves holding various safer use supplies in a syringe services program’s mobile services van.

TNE052 Close-up of supply shelves in mobile services van

Close-up of row of shelves holding various safer use supplies in a syringe services program’s mobile services van.

Mobile services / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Image taken from the back of a syringe services program’s mobile services van toward the front showing the supply shelves, open side door, and driver and passenger seats.

TNE051 Interior of mobile services van

Image taken from the back of a syringe services program’s mobile services van toward the front showing the supply shelves, open side door, and driver and passenger seats.

Mobile services / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Row of shelves holding various safer use supplies in a syringe services program’s mobile services van.

TNE050 Supply shelves in a mobile services van

Row of shelves holding various safer use supplies in a syringe services program’s mobile services van.

Mobile services / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A client wearing a blue surgical mask rests their arms on the services counter at a syringe services program and watches as a staff person, also masked, shows them different packages of syringes.

TNE045 Client at window of syringe services program

A client wearing rests their arms on the services counter at a syringe services program and watches as a staff person shows them different packages of syringes.

Client patient / Interaction / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Client at window of syringe services program receiving rescue breathing education from staff

TNE044 Client at window of syringe services program receiving rescue breathing education

A client at the services window of a syringe services program watches as the staff person across from them demonstrates tipping someone’s head back and opening their mouth for rescue breathing as part of an opioid overdose response.

Client patient / Interaction / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A smiling client at a syringe services program rests their arms on the counter as the staff person on the other side holds up a naloxone nasal spray device.

TNE043 Client at window of syringe services program receiving naloxone

A smiling client at a syringe services program rests their arms on the counter as the staff person on the other side holds up a naloxone nasal spray device.

Client patient / Interaction / Naloxone / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A window and counter at a syringe services program. Behind the counter is a staff person with short hair, glasses, and a shirt that reads “Ask me about naloxone” in multiple languages. They are gesturing with their hands as they talk to a client across the counter with long dark hair and a blue shirt.

TNE042 Syringe services program staff interacting with client

A window and counter at a syringe services program with a staff person talking to a client and gesturing as if explaining something.

Interaction / Syringe services program
A window and counter at a syringe services program. Behind the counter is a staff person with short hair, glasses, and a shirt that reads “Ask me about naloxone” in multiple languages. They are gesturing with their hands as they talks to a client across the counter with long dark hair and a blue shirt.

TNE041 Syringe services program staff interacting with client

A window and counter at a syringe services program with a staff person talking to a client.

Interaction / Syringe services program
A window and counter at a syringe services program. Behind the counter is a staff person wearing a blue surgical mask and showing a pamphlet to a client with long dark hair and a blue shirt. He looks like he is explaining the information in the pamphlet as the client leans slightly forward, listening.

TNE040 Syringe services program staff interacting with client

A window and counter at a syringe services program with a staff person explaining a pamphlet to a client.

Educational materials / Interaction / Syringe services program
A window and counter at a syringe services program with a staff person behind the counter handing a bag of supplies to a client.

TNE039 Syringe services program staff interacting with client

A window and counter at a syringe services program showing a staff person handing a bag of supplies to a client.

Interaction / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A window and counter at a syringe services program with a staff person putting supplies in a paper bag for a client.

TNE038 Syringe services program staff interacting with client

A window and counter at a syringe services program with a staff person gathering supplies for a client.

Interaction / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A window and counter at a syringe services program with a staff person talking to a client.

TNE037 Syringe services program staff interacting with client

A window and counter at a syringe services program with a staff member talking to a client.

Interaction / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Supply room at a syringe services program showing stacks of different colored boxes with various sizes of syringes, and neat bins and rows of other materials in the back.

TNE036 Supply room at a syringe services program

Supply room at a syringe services program showing stacks of different colored boxes with various sizes of syringes, and neat bins and rows of other materials in the back.

Interior space / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A shelf with different first aid supplies, including packets of vitamin C drink powder, cleansing wipes, and bandages

TNE021 Shelf with different first aid supplies

A shelf at a syringe services program showing some different first aid and health supplies.

First aid supplies / Syringe services program
A shelf with boxes of different types of syringes

TNE020 A shelf with boxes of different types of syringes

A wooden shelf in a syringe services program with multiple blue boxes containing different color/size syringes.

Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Supplies behind the counter of a syringe services program including fentanyl test strips, naloxone, nicotine replacement gum, and safer use supplies for injection drugs

TNE019 Supplies behind the counter of a syringe services program

A shelf of various safer use supplies at a syringe services program.

Naloxone / Nicotine replacement therapy / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A service window at a syringe services program, with the photo taken from inside the supply area looking out to the lobby.

TNE018 Service window at a syringe services program

A service window at a syringe services program, with the photo taken from inside the supply area looking out to the lobby.

Interior space / Syringe services program
Display case at syringe services program showing available supplies

TNE012 Display case at syringe services program showing available supplies

Display case at a syringe services program showing various available safer use supplies / harm reduction supplies.

Drug test strips / Nicotine replacement therapy / Rapid test / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Display case at syringe services program showing available supplies

TNE011 Display case at syringe services program showing available supplies

Display case at a syringe services program showing various available safer use supplies / harm reduction supplies like syringes and naloxone.

First aid supplies / Naloxone / Nicotine replacement therapy / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Sign at a syringe services program showing different available supplies

TNE008 Sign at a syringe services program showing different available supplies

Sign at the services window at Tacoma Needle Exchange, a syringe services program, showing a list of available supplies.

Community health services / Drug test strips / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Fentanyl test strip information sign showing strips that indicate a positive result, a negative result, and an "invalid" results

TNE007 Fentanyl test strip information sign

Sign in a syringe services program titled, “Fentanyl: What You Need to Know” and featuring 3 fentanyl test strips showing a positive, negative, and invalid result.

Drug test strips / Educational materials / Syringe services program
Service window at a syringe services program with a sign marketing different supplies and lots of informational materials

TNE006 Service window at a syringe services program

Close-up of the service window at a syringe services program showing stickers and informational materials on the counter, supplies in the back, and the corner of a services sign.

Interior space / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Shadowbox of different sizes / gauges of syringes

TNE005 Shadowbox of different sizes / gauges of syringes

A shadowbox frame showing different sizes and gauges of syringes organized from shortest / thinnest gauge to thickest gauge / longest.

Syringe services program
Bins with tampons and other hygiene supplies

TNE004 Bins with tampons and other hygiene supplies

A row of clear bins stocked with different types of tampons and other hygiene supplies.

Hygiene supplies / Syringe services program
Service window at a syringe services program showing a sign with a list of available supplies and lots of informational materials

TNE003 Service window at a syringe services program

Service window at a syringe services program showing a welcoming environment with a large sign listing different available services and lots of colorful informational flyers and supplies.

Interior space / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Bins containing multi-colored condom packages

TNE002 Bins containing multi-colored condom packages

A row of black bins containing different colored packages of condoms in a syringe services program.

Safer sex supplies / Syringe services program
Inviting work area in community health / syringe services program with a desk and chairs surrounded by lots of large green potted plants.

BMH2H088 Inviting work area in community health / syringe services program

Inviting work area in community health / syringe services program with a desk and chairs surrounded by lots of large green potted plants.

Community health services / Interior space / Syringe services program
Syringe services program staff holding a blue and yellow box of emergency contraception

BMH2H085 Community health program staff holding a box of emergency contraception

Community health / syringe services program staff person holding a box of blue and yellow emergency contraception.

Community health services / Safer sex supplies / Syringe services program
Provider and patient talking in the exam area of a mobile clinic for a community health / syringe services program

BMH2H084 Provider and patient talking in community health program mobile

Provider talking to patient inside a mobile clinic for a community health / syringe services program.

Community health services / Interaction / Mobile services / Provider staff / Syringe services program
Interior of mobile clinic for a community health / syringe services program showing a waiting area in front and clinic area in back with an exam table

BMH2H083 Interior of mobile clinic for a community health program

Click to download full-size image (5000 x 3333 pixels, 2.8MB) Interior of a mobile clinic for a community health / syringe services program showing the waiting area in front and …

Community health services / Interior space / Mobile services / Syringe services program
Patient wearing a jacket and an N95 respirator/mask waiting inside a mobile clinic for a community health program

BMH2H082 Patient waiting inside a mobile clinic for a community health program

A patient sitting inside a community health and syringe services program mobile clinic van.

Client patient / Community health services / Mobile services / Syringe services program
Rear entrance of community health / syringe services program mobile clinic van

BMH2H081 Rear entrance of community health program mobile clinic van

Close-up of the rear entrance to a white van that serves as a mobile clinic for a community health and syringe services program.

Community health services / Mobile services / Syringe services program
Patient in jeans and a jacket approaching the steps to enter a community health / syringe services program mobile clinic van

BMH2H080 Patient entering community health mobile clinic van

Patient approaching the steps to a community health and syringe services program mobile clinic van.

Client patient / Community health services / Mobile services / Syringe services program
White community health mobile clinic van with a red sign that reads Mobile Clinic, Blue Mountain Heart to Heart

BMH2H079 Community health and syringe services program mobile clinic van

A white van that serves as a mobile clinic for a community health and syringe services program.

Community health services / Mobile services / Syringe services program
Syringe services program staff person handing safer use supplies to a client.

BMH2H073 Syringe services program staff person handing safer use supplies to a client

A syringe services program staff person smiles and hands a package of safer use supplies across a counter to a client.

Client patient / Interaction / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Syringe services program staff interacting with a client in front of shelves of supplies.

BMH2H072 Syringe services program staff interacting with a client in front of supplies

A syringe services program staff person talks to a client in front of shelves of safer use supplies.

Client patient / Interaction / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Syringe services program staff person sharing hygiene supplies with client.

BMH2H070 Syringe services program staff person sharing hygiene supplies with client

Syringe services program staff person shows a client a bin of hygiene supplies.

Client patient / Hygiene supplies / Interaction / Provider staff / Syringe services program
Syringe services program staff person showing a package of safer use supplies to a client.

BMH2H069 Syringe services program staff person shows package of safer use supplies to a client

Syringe services staff person holds package of safer use supplies and talks to client.

Client patient / Interaction / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Syringe services program client holding safer use supplies while staff person looks on.

BMH2H068 Syringe services program client reads package label while staff person looks on

Syringe services program client reads label on package of safer use supplies while a staff person looks on.

Client patient / Interaction / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Syringe services program staff showing client a naloxone nasal spray device.

BMH2H067 Syringe services program staff showing client a naloxone nasal spray atomizer

Syringe services program staff person holds a naloxone nasal device and talks to a client.

Client patient / Interaction / Naloxone / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A syringe services program staff person with a beard and a blue vest is pointing at and talking to a client wearing a black and yellow shirt across a counter from them.

BMH3H066 Syringe services program staff person talking to client about naloxone

A syringe services program staff person talks to a client holding a box of naloxone.

Client patient / Interaction / Naloxone / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A syringe services program staff person with a beard and a blue vest hands a paper bag of harm reduction / safer use supplies to a client wearing a black and yellow shirt.

BMH2H065 Syringe services program staff person handing paper bag of safer use supplies to client

Syringe services program staff person hands a bag of safer use supplies to a client.

Client patient / Interaction / Naloxone / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A syringe services program staff person is holding two different-colored packages of syringes with one hand and pointing at one of them with the other while they talk to a client across a counter.

BMH2H064 Syringe services program staff person talking to client about syringe sizes

Syringe services program staff person talks to a client about different sizes of syringes.

Client patient / Interaction / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A syringe services program staff person is blurred in the background, holding a box of syringes in one hand and a packet of syringes in the other while talking to a client in a black and yellow shirt across a counter.

BMH2H063 Syringe services program staff person giving syringes to client

A syringe services program staff person holds a box of syringes in one hand and a packet of syringes in the other while talking to a client.

Client patient / Interaction / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A syringe services program staff person with a beard and a blue vest is looking down at a display of different syringes listening while a client with a black and yellow shirt points at the display.

BMH2H062 Syringe services program staff person talking to a client about different syringe sizes

A syringe services program staff person and a client look at a display of different types/sizes of syringes.

Client patient / Interaction / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Syringe services program staff person talking to a client about safer use supplies.

BMH2H061 Syringe services program staff person talking to a client about safer use supplies

A syringe services program staff person smiles while talking to a client in a black and yellow shirt across from a counter

Client patient / Interaction / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A syringe services program staff person with a beard and a blue vest is pointing at some boxes of syringes on shelves behind a counter while talking to a client in a black and yellow shirt.

BMH2H060 Syringe services program staff person talking about syringes with a client

A syringe services program staff person pointing at some boxes of syringes while talking to a client.

Client patient / Interaction / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
A client with a yellow and black shirt talking to a smiling staff person with a beard and a blue vest at a syringe services program with syringes and other safer use supplies on shelves behind a counter.

BMH2H059 Syringe services program staff person and client

A client talks to a smiling staff person at a syringe services program with shelves of supplies in the background.

Client patient / Interaction / Provider staff / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Interior of a syringe services program and community health organization showing multiple desks and workspaces for staff

BMH2H044 Workspaces in syringe services program

Interior of a syringe services program and community health organization showing warm, welcoming environment.

Community health services / Interior space / Syringe services program
Community health care clinic exam room

BMH2H025 Community health care clinic exam room

Interior of an exam room in a community health care clinic and syringe services program.

Community health services / Interior space / Syringe services program
Photo of the hallway in a syringe services and treatment program showing a water cooler, a privacy screen, and the door to a clinic room.

BMH2H024 Hallway with drug checking deposit box

Hallway in a syringe services program showing a water cooler next to a lock box on the wall where people can deposit samples of drugs for testing.

Community health services / Drug checking / Interior space / Syringe services program
A warm and inviting workspace or office space in a syringe services program with a desk and chair.

BMH2H020 Workspace in syringe services program

A warm and inviting workspace or office space in a syringe services program.

Interior space / Syringe services program
Close-up of a clear plastic container with packets of supplies in small bags. A label on the container reads “Booty bumping 101!" with detailed instructions on how to use the supplies

BMH2H012 Booty bumping supplies

Clear plastic container with packets of booty bumping supplies

Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Close-up of a table in front of a row of shelves in a syringe services program showing various supplies.

BMH2H011 Lip balm & condoms

Table in syringe services program with lip balm and condoms.

Safer sex supplies / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Close up of a warm and welcoming sign on a table featuring a poem about saying "Hello"

BMH2H010 “Hello” welcome sign

Close up of a small sign on a table with a welcoming poem titled “Hello”

Community health services / Interior space / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Table in front of a wall of shelves in a syringe services program stocked with harm reduction supplies.

BMH2H008 SSP supply shelves

Table in front of a wall of shelves in a syringe services program stocked with safer use supplies.

Interior space / Naloxone / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Materials (handouts, wallet cards) on a table in the entryway to a harm reduction and treatment services organization

BMH2H007 Entry table

Educational materials on a table in the entryway to a syringe services program and community health care organization

Community health services / Drug checking / Educational materials / Syringe services program
Table in the entryway to a syringe services and treatment services organization, showing two baskets of supplies, including condoms and COVID-19 tests

BMH2H006 Condoms & COVID-19 supplies

Table in the entryway to a syringe services program and community health organization, showing two baskets of supplies (condoms and COVID-19 rapid tests/masks)

Community health services / COVID-19 / Interior space / Safer sex supplies / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
Entryway to a syringe services and treatment services organization

BMH2H005 SSP entry & supplies

Entryway to a syringe services program and community health organization, showing table and shelves with safer use supplies

Community health services / COVID-19 / Interior space / Safer use supplies / Syringe services program
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