Donate to Monmouth County
CARE Inc.
MC CARE is a grassroots public policy think tank that participants in mixed method studies within the behavioral healthcare field to help fight for policy changes.
By donating today you are ensuring the fight to end these deadly overdoses in our community continues. We do that in a number of ways. We do that through our experience, research, and outreach work within our community. To ensure the lifesaving resources survive we need to continue to fight for true transparency and accountability in funding.
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Who We Are
Monmouth County CARE INC. is a drug policy think tank. We promote the health and dignity of drug users through Quantitative and qualitative policy research. We conduct policy research & independent studies to help advocate for real lasting policy change.
We provided community education about true accountability within our communities to ensure resources last. We are also working towards advancing a public health approach to ending the countless overdoses in our communities.
We at Monmouth County CARE also do voluntary outreach work within our community along the Bayshore area of Middlesex and Monmouth Counties. We hand out donations, offer community resources which includes harm reduction supplies, and much more. Though outreach work we build relationship with our communities to understand the daily struggles.
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Mission Statement
OUR MISSION
Promotes the health and dignity of drug users and provide community education on the need for accountability within the behavioral healthcare field. Work towards advancing a public health approach to ending the countless overdoses. Working towards compassion and dignity for everyone no matter what substance you are or did put in your body.
Guiding Principles of Harm Reduction
Guiding Principles
According to the Harm Reduction Coalition, the principles of HR are
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Acknowledging that drug use is inevitable and choosing to reduce the harms of drug use instead of disregarding them.
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Understanding that drug use is a complicated phenomenon and that some methods of drug use are safer than others.
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Determining that quality of life is the criteria for successful approaches and rejecting the idea that total abstinence is the only way to address the issue of drug abuse.
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Using non-judgmental services and providing resources to people who use drugs and their communities, without forcing them to participate.
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Making sure that drug users have a say in the programs and policies of which they are a part.
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Seeing drug users as the ones who have control over preventing the harms of drug use and empowering them to share information and support each other.
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Accepting that factors such as poverty and racism can impact people’s ability to deal with the consequences of drug use.
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Facing the realities and risks of drug abuse.​
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
