Every weekday, from a big white box truck parked in the vacant lot at 3370 West 25th Street, MetroHealth’s Project DAWN Expanded Mobile Unit dispenses sterile syringes, Narcan kits, condoms and other supplies to those living with opioid-use disorder.

Perhaps most important, the team also dispenses hope – a light in the darkness, a hand to grab and hold until a user finally can say, “I’m ready.”

Join us as we spend a day with this incredible team of caregivers.

MetroHealth’s Office of Opioid Safety operates the Project DAWN Expanded Mobile Unit, which is open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays at 3370 West 25th Street in Cleveland.

Anyone can visit, and clients remain anonymous.

Find out more about the Office of Opioid Safety by visiting www.metrohealth.org/office-of-opioid-safety

Prescription for Hope

It's Somebody's Child Out There

The opioid epidemic's staggering body count seems to always grab the headlines, overshadowing the people on the front lines who are working to turn the darkness into dawn. MetroHealth's Dr. Joan Papp shares the scope of the problem and what she's doing to fight it.

1. Dawn

“Prescription for Hope” captures the stories inside Cleveland’s public hospital system.

Told by the people and patients on the front lines of care, “Prescription for Hope” offers a behind-the-scenes look at how The MetroHealth System is moving beyond medical treatment to improve the foundations of community health and well-being.

Since 1837, MetroHealth has served the community, neighborhoods and people of Greater Cleveland. Its nearly 8,000 caregivers are devoted to a mission of health, healing, humanity … and hope.

“Prescription for Hope” is an in-house production of MetroHealth’s Communication Department. 

Please visit www.metrohealth.org

It's Somebody's Child Out There

Prescription for Hope

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