Our Mission
Mission Statement
Still Here Project exists to honor those we have lost to overdose while supporting those who are still here.
Through creative community events, art, education, and connection, our mission is to provide a welcoming space for remembrance and healing, increase overdose awareness, reduce stigma surrounding substance use, and connect individuals and families with trusted community resources.
We honor the lives of those we’ve lost to overdose through art, storytelling, and meaningful remembrance.
Our workshops create space to remember the person, their story, and the life they lived.
Remember
We create welcoming spaces where individuals and families impacted by substance use and loss can feel supported and less alone. We create and distribute specialized Still Here Narcan Pouches to help make life saving resources more accessible.
Through community partnerships, we help connect people with trusted grief, recovery, and support resources.
Connect
We work to increase overdose awareness and awareness to the invisible within the drug supply.
Reduce stigma surrounding substance use, and help make life-saving resources more accessible.
Through education and community partnerships, we hope to give people information and resources that could help save a life.
Prevent
How it all started
Still Here Project was created after losing our mother, Alicia Ann Harris to an overdose of a heavily contaminated drug supply. As sisters learning to navigate our own grief, we knew we wanted to turn our loss into something meaningful and create a way for her memory, and the memories of so many others, to continue making an impact.
What started as a way to honor those we’ve lost has grown into something for those still here, too.
For Those We Lost. For Those Still Here.