Marin County Community Response Teams (CRTs) formed for the COVID-19 pandemic response are pivoting to fentanyl use in the Hispanic community in San Rafael.
This month, CRT partner Canal Alliance and OD Free Marin joined up to train 12 residents of the Canal area in San Rafael to support overdose prevention.
Since then, Community Health Workers (CHW) have distributed over 200 Narcan kits and provided training in Spanish throughout the Canal neighborhood, including at the Wednesday food bank.
The biggest problem in the Canal isn’t fentanyl—it’s alcohol. I worked at the homeless shelter on Bellam for a year walked the neighborhood on my lunch hour M-F. The streets are covered in beer cans/bottles packaging—90% of it was Modello Beer