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Saving Lives, Addressing Health, and Increasing Safety During Spring Break 2024
Fort Lauderdale, FL (April 2024) – Care Resource continued its annual spring break effort of harm reduction initiatives through The SPOT (The Special Purpose Outreach Team), aimed at promoting safety, education, and community well-being. Throughout this critical...
Educating Students and Saving Lives
Fort Lauderdale, FL (February 2023) – In 2022, Care Resource’s Special Purpose Outreach Team (The SPOT), in response to several fentanyl overdoses, canvassed the beaches of Fort Lauderdale to warn spring breakers of a surge in recreational drugs laced with dangerous...
The SPOT Broward Celebrates Collection of Over 100,000 Used Syringes
Safeguarding Neighborhoods and Saving Hundreds of Lives At the beginning of 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that over 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2021. 75,673 of those overdose deaths were from opioids, primarily...
Recognition for Exceptional Service
Care Resource Medical and Behavioral Health Directors to be Honored with an EPIC Award from Mental Health America of Southeast Florida. MIAMI, FLORIDA, APRIL 2022 – Dr. Thomas Smith and Dr. Sheryl Zayas of Care Resource Community Health Centers Inc. are being honored...
Helping to Reverse Opioid Overdoses During Spring Break
In response to the spike in opioid overdose deaths in South Florida during spring break, The SPOT (Special Purpose Outreach Team) mobile medical clinic was present throughout the month of March distributing Naloxone (Narcan), a medication designed to rapidly reverse...
Florida groups spread message of harm reduction to spring breakers
In the days after a group of West Point cadets on spring break were sickened by fentanyl-laced cocaine at a South Florida house party, community activists sprang into action. Click here for full article >
Care Resource Launches “The SPOT” Mobile Medical Clinic with Syringe Services Program to Address Opioid Crisis and HIV Epidemic in Broward County
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Sept. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the opioid crisis, ongoing HIV epidemic, and the COVID-19 pandemic in Broward County, Care Resource Community Health Centers, Inc. announces the launch of The SPOT (Special Purpose Outreach Team)...
South Florida groups canvass spring breakers to warn of fentanyl
FORT LAUDERDALE (AP) — In the days after a group of West Point cadets on spring break were sickened by fentanyl-laced cocaine at a South Florida house party, community activists sprang into action. Click here for full article >
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