{"id":61648,"date":"2021-09-13T09:09:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T13:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=61648"},"modified":"2021-09-21T09:10:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:10:59","slug":"brave-coop-envisioning-a-world-where-every-overdose-is-reversed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/brave-coop-envisioning-a-world-where-every-overdose-is-reversed\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave Coop, envisioning a world where every overdose is reversed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BRAVE is a co-operative business in the Strathcona neighbourhood, adjacent to the Downtown Eastside. As it says on their website, <a href=\"http:\/\/brave.coop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BRAVE<\/a> creates technology that \u201cconnects people with community supporters when they\u2019re alone and at risk of overdose. Anonymous and private, these tools can keep you safe(r) from overdose, wherever you are, whenever you need it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 15px; height: 15px;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shawna Blomskog and Mario Cimet both work at the co-op. They spoke to The Pulse about the products they\u2019ve created: the BRAVE button, the BRAVE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brave.coop\/app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">phone app<\/a>, and the BRAVE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brave.coop\/sensor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sensor<\/a>. The BRAVE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brave.coop\/buttons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">button<\/a> \u201c...connects to somebody that has the ability to respond,\u201d allowing someone alone in their room can call for help. The BRAVE app is installed on a user\u2019s phone so that, \u201cif something goes wrong,...if you overdose, you can have basically details of a rescue plan that...you put into the app ahead of time, and that are then shared with...your supporter.\u201d And the BRAVE sensor senses motion in, say, a public washroom, and alerts someone if motion suddenly stops. \u201c...it's driven by the same goal of detecting overdoses that would otherwise go unnoticed or unwitnessed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRAVE is a co-operative business in the Strathcona neighbourhood, adjacent to the Downtown Eastside. As it says on their website, BRAVE creates technology that \u201cconnects people with community supporters when they\u2019re alone and at risk of overdose. Anonymous and private, these tools can keep you safe(r) from overdose, wherever you are, whenever you need it.\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":61651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223],"tags":[9580,9581,9579,678,680],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61648"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=61648"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=61648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}