Overview

IDEA Exchange Miami SSP is located in Miami, FL and prioritizes treating its clients in an environment of dignity and respect, working to develop strong, positive relationships with the people it serves. From research to direct service, IDEA Miami has focused on the meaningful involvement of people who inject and use drugs (PWID/PWUD) in the development, testing, and implementation of new health service delivery models at the SSP.

Miami IDEA exchange organization overview

 

It's not just syringe access at this point…that's just like 5% of what we do...A lot of people's HIV treatment runs through the exchange, their buprenorphine treatment runs through the exchange, hep C treatment, PrEP, all integrated through the exchange. And so those services have the potential to be disrupted in those times of crisis like that. But [with] the biggest crisis COVID, we never shut down. We stopped testing for probably only like five or six weeks, and we had an entire telehealth system already built and ready to be implemented. We were able to actually keep people engaged and the entire time, we didn't have really any disruptions or drop off in our care cascade. COVID is a little different than weather. But we try our best to give as many supplies as we can to clients so that we know that at least they have supplies while we might be shut down.

Tyler Bartholomew at IDEA Miami

Total Monthly Data

Service

Number of Encounters

Received education on COVID and COVID vaccination

947

Referred to COVID vaccination

279

COVID-19 Vaccination (on-site)

97

COVID-19 Vaccination (off-site)

N/A

Monkeypox vaccinations N/A
Other vaccinations 29
Total encounters 3712