Our Goals
- We strive to honor and remember loved ones
- Offer and build community with love and support
poisoned drug supply, and other deaths caused by substances
- Save lives by making overdose prevention and reversal information
- Improve lives by shattering stigma against people for whom
- Highlight resources for harm reduction, community, and (when wanted) for multiple paths to recovery.
Picture from our 2024 International Overdose Awareness Day Event
"Just Love" Meaning
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The "JUST" in "Just Love" has multiple meanings.
whole people who exist within systems that impact their options and resources - just love seeks to ensure access and support for the best of the person! Loving justly also means being inclusive of EVERYone. EVERYone includes:
substance use or "any positive change as defined by" the person, and
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Picture from our 2024 International Overdose Awareness Day Event
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Components of our Mission and Vision
(H)arm (R)eduction and (h)arm (r)eduction -
"You Are Not Alone" - bee balm (protection)
With its many medicinal uses, the bee balm growing on both sides of
the Purple Pantry symbolizes being surrounded by protection from
evil and illness and having good health, therefore representing
(H)arm (R)eduction and (h)arm (r)eduction.
You Are Not Alone and there are resources to offer protection,
no matter where you are in your journey!
Multiple Paths to Recovery - “Hope” - daffodils and black-eyed Susans (resilience)
Daffodils (on the right) and black-eyed Susans (on the left) symbolize multiple
paths to recovery. The sight of daffodils that have burst out of the snow-covered
ground, is a striking picture of hope, renewal, resilience, strength,
persistence, rebirth, new beginnings, forgiveness, and second chances.
Black-eyed Susans thrive in uncontrolled settings as highly adaptable,
resilient plants that thrive even in difficult environments.
Their untamed beauty - with vivid yellow and dark cores - reminds us that
life's wild and dark sides can also be sources of power and inspiration
as we adjust and grow.
All paths to recovery involve some practice of hope.
Hope practiced in community can be transformative.
Remember those we’ve lost and support those who grieve them -
“My Loved One” - cardinals (visits, messages from loved ones)
Cardinals are thought by many to be visits, gifts, or messages from
loved ones who have passed away. Seeing 2 cardinals at once is
thought by some to indicate a need to pay more attention.
There is healing power - for all of us and our communities -
in remembering together - My Loved One.
"You Are Not Alone" - bee balm (protection)
With its many medicinal uses, the bee balm growing on both sides of
the Purple Pantry symbolizes being surrounded by protection from
evil and illness and having good health, therefore representing
(H)arm (R)eduction and (h)arm (r)eduction.
You Are Not Alone and there are resources to offer protection,
no matter where you are in your journey!
Multiple Paths to Recovery - “Hope” - daffodils and black-eyed Susans (resilience)
Daffodils (on the right) and black-eyed Susans (on the left) symbolize multiple
paths to recovery. The sight of daffodils that have burst out of the snow-covered
ground, is a striking picture of hope, renewal, resilience, strength,
persistence, rebirth, new beginnings, forgiveness, and second chances.
Black-eyed Susans thrive in uncontrolled settings as highly adaptable,
resilient plants that thrive even in difficult environments.
Their untamed beauty - with vivid yellow and dark cores - reminds us that
life's wild and dark sides can also be sources of power and inspiration
as we adjust and grow.
All paths to recovery involve some practice of hope.
Hope practiced in community can be transformative.
Remember those we’ve lost and support those who grieve them -
“My Loved One” - cardinals (visits, messages from loved ones)
Cardinals are thought by many to be visits, gifts, or messages from
loved ones who have passed away. Seeing 2 cardinals at once is
thought by some to indicate a need to pay more attention.
There is healing power - for all of us and our communities -
in remembering together - My Loved One.
Reach Out!
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