Upcoming Community Events: Westside
Community Creatures: Free Collage Workshop
AUG 28:
Join We Amplify Voices (WAV) for their Community Creatures: Free Collage Workshop! Craft your unique collage creature, connect with your community, share love around the westside. The last Friday of the month from 3-5PM.
1327 Sullivant Ave.
For more information email: gigi@weamplifyvoices.org
Friday Clean Up: Sullivant Ave.
FRIDAYS:
Join dedicated locals as they help keep Sullivant Ave. clean Fridays at noon. Efforts are in collaboration with Keep Columbus Beautiful and the Columbus Division of Refuse; as well as help from dozens upon dozens of various volunteers these past 85 weeks.
For more information contact Lisa Boggs at lisaboggs693@sbcglobal.net
Glenwood Community Center Produce Giveaway
SEPT. 4:
Produce giveaway at Glenwood Community Center (1888 Fairmont Ave, 43223) on the first Thursday of the month from 2-4PM between April-November.
2025 Dates: September 4, October 2, November 6.
For more information email: FLGrace@columbus.gov
Produce Giveaway at Sullivant Gardens
SEPT. 4:
Sullivant Gardens Recreation Center in partnership with Mid-Ohio Food Collective offers produce giveaways on the first Thursday of the month from 2-4PM from April to October 2025. Please bring your ID.
For more information please call 614-645-8171
Safe Point Mobile Pop-up
FIRST THURSDAY; 12-2PM:
Safe Point is a comprehensive harm reduction model to educate the community about safer drug use and fight the spread of infectious disease. Safe Point has a mobile pop-up at Primary One Health on the Hilltop at 2300 W. Broad St, 43204 on the first Thursday of the month from 12-2PM. The mobile unit is parked in the back lot of the Primary One. Information is available in English and Spanish.
Safe Point participants have access to the following services:
-Syringe exchange and safer injection use education
-HIV/STI/Hepatitis C testing and linkage to care
-Drug intervention treatment referrals & counseling
-Overdose prevention education
-PrEP referrals
-22G syringes for the trans community
Some services may not be available at every session. Please contact us to confirm specifics.
Safe Point is a legal program operated by Equitas Health with support from Columbus Public Health.
Safe Point operates in Franklinton at 1267 W Broad St, 43222 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 4-8PM (line cut at 7:30PM), and Saturdays from 9AM-1PM (line cut at 12:30PM).
For more information, call 614-460-1406