Recovery

At Prevention Point's Recover & Thrive event on September 25, we presented Prevention Point's first-ever zine! All the content —which includes artwork, poetry, and essays —was...

On September 25, Prevention Point Philadelphia (PPP) hosted a special event in the Love Lot—Recover & Thrive: Celebrating Recovery Month at Prevention Point Philadelphia. Community...

Prevention Point Philadelphia was thrilled to be featured in this beautiful piece in The New York Times 's The Athletic about living legend Jason Kelce, along with former PPP...

Prevention Point Philadelphia’s (PPP’s) drug treatment clinic helps patients start and adhere to lifesaving medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). These medications—which at...

During the 13+ years that John lived on the streets, he’d often hunker down behind a closed supermarket. He remembers nights so cold and wind so biting that he got frost bite on...

Left to right: Francis Wildflower, Naomi Wildflower, and Jamila. Photo courtesy of Naomi. Jamila admits she was a “hard case.” Although she was unhoused and dependent on illicit...

I always tell people Prevention Point saved my life because it did. When Cherry was first living on the streets of Kensington about two years ago, she sought safety in numbers...

During the years he lived unhoused and using drugs on the streets of Kensington, Theo was beaten, robbed, and assaulted. He suffered horrible, life-threatening injuries and...

Nicole (“Nicky”) Adams, she/her, is a Mobile STEP Case Manager at PPP. She supports patients in starting medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD), like Suboxone and Sublocade...

Photo credit: Steve Weinik Trigger warning: physical and sexual assault Ashley, a former participant at Prevention Point Philadelphia (PPP), knows how hard it is for women facing...