Community Action for Social Justice Community Action for Social Justice is a not-for-profit organization that fosters improved health and quality-of-life for Long Islanders impacted by drug use, incarceration, homelessness, and chronic disease through participant-centered services and policy advocacy to reduce broader social and structural barriers. At CASJ, we believe that …

CASJ also trains individuals as volunteer trainers who are also certified to train and distribute Naloxone. If you would like to schedule a Naloxone training for yourself, your family, or your community, contact us: 1-866-599-7260 / [email protected]

GINA CHINESE Director of Programs. Gina Chinese is CASJ’s Director of Programs and the primary point of contact for requests for services. Gina is responsible for supervision and coordination of staff, volunteers and peers, oversees direct services to participants, provides Opioid Overdose Prevention Trainings and Train the Trainer sessions, and ensures adherence …

BACK TO TEAM PAGE Ric Curtis, PhD Board of Directors - Chair Richard Curtis is a Professor in the Anthropology Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is currently Co-Chair of the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR) Community Advisory Board …

CASJ SYRINGE EXCHANGE Syringe Exchange Programs provide sterile syringes to people who inject drugs. Consistently using a new sterile syringe for every injection is the best way to prevent being infected by or transmitting HIV, Hepatitis C, and other blood borne diseases. HIV and Hepatitis C can also be transmitted by sharing cookers, cottons,

CASJ’s Drug User Health Hub will operate within a harm reduction framework and work continually to promote the understanding and practice of harm reduction and accessible treatment within a continuum of care, also engaging other providers to offer culturally competent, stigma free, accessible services for people who use drugs. ...

CASJ Funded by AIDS United and the Elton John AIDS Foundation to provide Legal Syringe Possession Initiative. CASJ’s new Long Island-region Legal Syringe Possession Initiative (LSPI) provides information at each level of the criminal justice system – law enforcement, defense attorneys. prosecutors, and the judiciary – to ensure recent changes in the NYS Penal Law …

Tina Wolf is Executive Director and Co-Founder of Community Action for Social Justice (CASJ), the only Harm Reduction & Syringe Exchange Program on Long Island. She is responsible for design, implementation, and reporting for all programs; grant writing and other fundraising efforts; and is the agency’s primary liaison with funders, elected ...

BACK TO TEAM PAGE Carolina López Board of Directors - Vice Chair Carolina López is currently Finance Director at Harm Reduction Coalition. She was previously Executive Director of New York Harm Reduction Educators (NYHRE), the largest harm reduction and syringe exchange program on the East Coast. She joined the agency in 2008 as the

CASJ distributes free kits and instructions to check for fentanyl. While the utility of fentanyl test strips continues to evolve, other substances (such as xylazine, a veterinary sedative) in the illicit opioid supply have begun causing other serious harms, like wounds that don’t heal. CASJ is now working with a lab to identify these other ...