Stacie Brown is a woman in long term recovery and an overdose survivor.
Stacie has been working with individuals with substance use disorders since 2013. She started as a Certified Recovery Specialist at Onala Recovery Center and soon became a Certified Family Recovery Specialist as well. In 2016, she became a volunteer for Prevention Point Pittsburgh under the supervision of Alice Bell and Ron Johnson and began conducting naloxone trainings for the Onala community. By the end of 2017, she had trained over 600 individuals to respond to an overdose.
Early in 2019, she began working as an Opioid Response Outreach Coordinator with the Allegheny County Health Department. At the Health Department, Stacie is responsible for the distribution of approximately 10,000 kits of Narcan a year. She has trained thousands of people how to administer Narcan and utilize other harm reduction strategies. Each year, she hosts hundreds of pop-up health fairs to build community and connect folks with resources.
Stacie’s nomination said, “Stacie knows everybody and brings folks together like no other. But another important aspect of Stacie is how she has merged abstinence-based ideology with multiple recovery pathways and harm reduction. The gaps between these arguably opposing ideologies needed to be bridged and Stacie has done so. She has taught me and so many others so much!”