Street Cats YYC

Street Cats YYC Harm Redux education & awareness. Meeting people where they are at. Nightreach. Community Events.

2026🔶THIRD QUARTER🔶This quarter has been an incredibly difficult one following the closure of the Safeworks Supervised C...
10/01/2026

2026
🔶THIRD QUARTER🔶

This quarter has been an incredibly difficult one following the closure of the Safeworks Supervised Consumption Service and Connect Outreach Team. We’ve seen a significant increase in poisonings and prolonged sedation in the community alongside the heavy presence of tranq-contaminated drugs in the street supply right now.

From July through September 2026, we:
* Had 2498 engagements with homies in the streets
* Provided 80 referrals to community resources & services
* Spent 63 hours doing outreach
* Filled 24 Kitten shifts - “Kittens” are honorary volunteers currently experiencing homelessness and/or using substances who come out on outreach with us to support their community
* Responded to 5 hard poisonings (overdoses requiring naloxone)
* 13 soft poisonings (overdoses requiring oxygen/breathing support, but not naloxone)
* Distributed 331 naloxone kits - 183 were replacements after being used in the street
* Responded to 29 wellness checks & de-escalations
* Provided grief support 18x
* Supported reconnection with family 12x
* Safely disposed of 51 sharps/needle debris
* Provided encampment support 3x
* Provided hospital support 8x
* Supported 19 folks with obtaining or maintaining housing
* Connected 1 person to detox/treatment/OAT/NTS
* Performed 23 wound care/dressing changes
* Provided 10 transports
* Put together & delivered 8 personal care packages
* Intervened with 16 potentially punitive authoritative figures
* Provided institutional support in prison 10x
* Offered pre & postnatal support 4x
* Domestic violence support 2x
* Connected 3 folks to legal/lawyer support

Please carry naloxone and ask folks how they’re doing. Share a cigarette and a hug when you can. Be kind.

🔶Stay Safe & Keep Six🔶

❌CANCEL CULTURE ISN’T PUNK❌We’re not arguing that harmful actions and behaviors shouldn’t be acknowledged or addressed. ...
09/07/2026

❌CANCEL CULTURE ISN’T PUNK❌

We’re not arguing that harmful actions and behaviors shouldn’t be acknowledged or addressed. And we’re definitely not arguing that survivors and people most impacted by harm don’t deserve safety, support, and autonomy over what that looks like for them.

What we’re saying is that if we actually want to prevent people from causing harm again, punishment, public humiliation, social exile, and permanent labels aren’t getting us there.

The chances of someone causing harm again are so much lower when we create opportunities for accountability, reflection, repair, and meaningful change.

Preventing future harm matters more than making someone suffer for past harm. And we have to be willing to examine the ways we recreate carceral logic in our own communities

Some pages we recommend checking out if you wanna learn more about cancel culture, transformative justice, accountability, and building responses to harm outside of punishment:

Clementine Morrigan
Bebe Montoya | zinester / singer / dumb b*tch 👽🌈💜
Juno Aventurine
Survivors 4 Justice Reform
Avin • אלפרד
Fu***ng Cancelled

Stay Safe & Keep Six 🖤

💚PEOPLE WHO USE DRUGS SAVE LIVES💚The community care provided by people who use drugs is rarely recognized or protected. ...
08/11/2026

💚PEOPLE WHO USE DRUGS SAVE LIVES💚

The community care provided by people who use drugs is rarely recognized or protected. More often, the people holding their communities together are criminalized, displaced, surveilled, and treated as disposable.

We can’t keep relying on drug-using communities to carry the weight of this crisis while denying them the resources, safety, autonomy, and political power they deserve. Appreciation without action is not enough.

Listen to people who use drugs. Pay them for their expertise. Protect their spaces. Fund peer-led initiatives. Provide a regulated and safe drug supply. Remove barriers to housing and healthcare. Stop punishing people for surviving.

People who use drugs are leaders, knowledge holders, community builders, and essential to every meaningful response to the toxic drug supply crisis.

Keep each other alive. Keep each other close.
Stay Safe & Keep Six.

HOLY MOTHER OF NOD - Photo taken by our friend Sonny💚

🍑BOOFING ZINE UPDATE🍑We recently gave our Boofing zine a refresh!Check it out to learn some tips for making a**l drug us...
08/06/2026

🍑BOOFING ZINE UPDATE🍑

We recently gave our Boofing zine a refresh!

Check it out to learn some tips for making a**l drug use a little bit safer. Whether it’s new info or just a refresher, harm reduction is all about giving people the knowledge they need to reduce risk.

You can also download the zine for free on our website.

And remember: people are going to use drugs whether you approve of it or not.

STOP POLICING EACH OTHER. START KEEPING EACH OTHER SAFE.

Safe b***y bumping, friends. 🍑💚

(Graphics by .org)

***ybumping

🪐 OPEN AIR 2026 🪐We’re STOKED to be joining Hearsay and silent.tension for their second annual outdoor offering this Aug...
08/05/2026

🪐 OPEN AIR 2026 🪐

We’re STOKED to be joining Hearsay and silent.tension for their second annual outdoor offering this August 22-23.

24 hours of music in the beautiful forests of Alberta, on the traditional territory of the Piikani Nation and within the homelands of the Blackfoot Confederacy.

Street Cats YYC will be there throughout the weekend to help keep the vibes safe and support anyone who needs us.

We’ll have:
* Medical professionals providing first aid and wound care
* Naloxone and safer use supplies
* Overdose & overamping response, & bad trip sitting
* Fans, fidgets, candy, sensory toys, and other little goodies to help keep everyone cool and grounded

FYI - We will NOT be selling merch at this event 💚

Tickets are live in the bios of and silent.tension

Come dance, look out for one another, and please stop by and say hi to us! We can’t wait to see you all in the forest!! 🌳

💚 DONATION BINS 💚Several different pubs, cafes, tattoo shops, and other rad businesses around the city have been generou...
07/25/2026

💚 DONATION BINS 💚

Several different pubs, cafes, tattoo shops, and other rad businesses around the city have been generous enough to host our donation bins in their space.

If you have any old clothing you don’t wear, hygiene products you don’t use, or a lil extra cash to buy a gift card, drop it in one of our bins on your way to grab a b**r or get a tattoo!

You can find a list of all the donation bin locations on our website under the “Contribute” page.

Every item makes a difference.

Stay Safe & Keep Six 💚

🧤PT. 2 - OUTREACH PREP🧤If you saw our recent post about how we prep our outreach backpacks, you might be wondering what ...
07/16/2026

🧤PT. 2 - OUTREACH PREP🧤

If you saw our recent post about how we prep our outreach backpacks, you might be wondering what other supplies we take with us.

Every Wednesday evening, we load four carts with basic needs essentials and other gear, and hand it out to our homies on the street in the downtown area.

Supplies vary, but what’s included here is a general idea of what you can expect us to have on outreach!

We love our homies!

Stay Safe & Keep Six 💚

2026🧩 SECOND QUARTER 🧩This quarter came to an end on the same day as our only SCS. We worry about what changes we will s...
07/02/2026

2026
🧩 SECOND QUARTER 🧩

This quarter came to an end on the same day as our only SCS. We worry about what changes we will see in our interactions on the street as a result of this closure, and what impact this loss will have on our community. We are entirely devastated and deeply exhausted. 

So far, in the second quarter of 2026, we’ve:

* Had 2273 engagements with homies in the streets
* Provided 63 referrals to community resources & services
* Street Cats members spent 55 hours doing outreach
* 32 Kitten shifts were filled - “Kittens” are honorary volunteers who are currently experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity and/or using substances that come out with us on outreach to support their community
* Responded to 2 hard poisonings & 9 soft poisonings w/ coaching
* Distributed 402 Naloxone kits; 135 of those kits were replacements after being used in the street
* Responded to 7 wellness checks & de-escalations, & provided grief support 12x
* Supported reconnection to family 4x
* Provided encampment support 4x
* Provided hospital support 2x
* Connected 10 folks to housing
* Connected 18 folks to detox/treatment/O.A.T/NTS
* Performed 6 wound care/dressing changes
* Completed 17 transportations
* Put together & delivered 8 personal care packages
* Intervened with 11 potentially punitive authoritative figures
* Provided institutional support in prison 78x
* Safely disposed of 44 sharps/needle debris
* Offered pre & postnatal support 1x
* Connected 9 folks to legal/lawyer support

Please carry naloxone and ask people how they’re doing. Share a cigarette and a hug when you can. Be kind. 

Stay Safe & Keep Six. 

🌈 Q***R RIGHTS & HARM REDUCTION🌈
06/02/2026

🌈 Q***R RIGHTS & HARM REDUCTION🌈

🖤 FIVE YEARS 🖤We’re so grateful for our team and for every single person who’s contributed to making this work possible....
06/01/2026

🖤 FIVE YEARS 🖤

We’re so grateful for our team and for every single person who’s contributed to making this work possible. These five years have been far from easy, but what we’ve built in that time makes it all worthwhile.

We love the community we’ve become a part of. We love doing what we do. We love people who use drugs and people who don’t. We love people with houses and people without. We love every single human being on this earth.

Thank you. Over and over and over again. Thank you for helping us help others.

And as always
Stay Safe & Keep Six 🖤

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