Posse Project

POSSE is a youth-driven, harm reduction and human rights training and peer outreach project, for youth between the ages of 15-35. POSSE educates youth to become peer outreach workers within their community. Trained youth then assist and educate their peers, reaching youth where they're at, during street-level outreach, regarding violence, homelessness, harm reduction, substance use, sexual health, exploitation, human trafficking, human rights, and sexualized violence. A team of peer outreach workers (possibly you!) are trained in effective outreach work and will provide peer-driven, non-judgmental support in harm reduction outreach; to assist youth in decision making, coping, and problem-solving. POSSE is operating in the communities of Sipekne’katik First Nation and area, Sackville, and Windsor/West Hants. POSSE also provides food support, service navigation, harm reduction supplies, alongside fee-for-service trainings to community organizations.