WFYI 2020

Executive Director Natasha Cheatham shares her experiences as a Peer Professional.

In collaboration with The Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis, WFYI created a series of video vignettes with stories of how harm reduction efforts have changed the public health of Indiana for those who struggle with substance use disorder.

Harm reduction is a public health approach which is being used with strong success to improve the lives of Hoosiers that use substances, including those that inject substances. Emphasizing physical health, social well-being, and quality of life, it aims to accomplish public health goals in the long term, by alleviating the immediate danger of overdose and the long-term impact of highly transmissible infectious diseases like Hepatitis B, C and HIV.

Through assertive outreach in a multitude of programs, individual lives have been saved, and communities transformed.