Event Services

As the founder of DanceSafe, I have worked in public health for over twenty years. I’ve seen firsthand how public policy decisions directly affect people’s lives. Take drug prohibition, for example: Last year approximately 70,000 Americans died as a result of prohibition and the unsafe drug supply it creates, a more than threefold increase since the year 2000. Conversely, countries like Portugal, who decriminalized all drugs…

DanceSafe Services During COVID-19

DanceSafe is a 501(c)3 public health nonprofit, established in 1998, that promotes health and safety within the electronic music and nightlife communities. Since then, it has grown to be the largest nonprofit in North America to provide harm reduction services and peer-based, popular education in nightlife settings. Combining these two principles has enabled DanceSafe to create successful, peer-based educational programs to reduce drug misuse and empower young people and others to make healthy, informed lifestyle choices.

Standard DanceSafe Services

Provide safe spaces to engage in conversations about health, drug use, and personal safety
Provide free water and electrolytes to prevent dehydration and heatstroke
Provide free safer sex tools to avoid unwanted pregnancies and the spread of STIs
Provide ‘safer snorting’ tools to avoid the risk of Hep C and other blood borne disease transmission
Provide WeLoveConsent education to help prevent sexual violence and create safer spaces for patrons;
Provide free ear plugs to prevent hearing loss
Provide honest, fact-based, unbiased information on drug effects and potential harms to empower people to make informed decisions
(Optional) Provide drug checking services to prevent adverse medical incidents and deaths