• Please note, we are a volunteer-run team and do our best to respond in a timely matter, but this is not always possible. We are not an emergency line. Thank you for your understanding.

    General Email:whatsup@blackthistlestreetaid.org

    General Line, call or text: (541) 232-8546

    If you are contacting us for medical outreach support and we don't answer, please leave us a Voicemail with:

    -Your name and a good way to reach you, along with any other info that may be relevant: what you are calling about, description of you/where we might locate you/ cross streets, etc.

    -If you are calling on behalf of someone else, please let us know if the person is open to our team reaching out to them (if you spoke with them) along with the above descriptors.


    We will do our best to come out and look for you or this individual when we are next out or can mobilize a team to go out if it is within our scope of care.

    Again, we are not emergency care, and we are volunteer-run. It can take anywhere from 48-72hrs for our team to get out to folks.

    For all media requests, please complete this short form

  • Monthly Pop-up clinic is held the 2nd Wednesday of each month:

    NEXT CLINIC IS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12th

    1:30-4:00pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church parking lot (1685 W 13th Ave, Eugene)

    ~ Weekly roving outreach services all other Wednesdays of the month~

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Black Thistle Street Aid is a integrative team of volunteer medical practitioners, herbalists & advocates providing access to free healthcare through direct outreach & pop-up clinics to people experiencing houselessness in the Eugene-Springfield, Oregon area.

 What do we do?

Our team of volunteers provides weekly non-emergent medical outreach to the Eugene/Springfield area via our roving outreach team and monthly pop-up clinic. Our team of medical providers (MDs, PAs, RNs, EMTs) and clinical herbalists provide integrative health care through a harm-reduction, trauma-informed & humanistic lens.

Services we provide include on-site prescription refill assistance, wound care, foot baths, herbal and medical provider consultations, reproductive health needs, first aid supplies and an array of harm reduction and hygiene/survival supplies. In addition to offering supplies and on-the-spot care, our team provides resource connections, follow-up care and referrals to higher levels of care as needed. As time and capacity allows, our team also assists with systems navigation & advocacy, and will accompany people to their medical appointments, pre-op, emergency room visits etc. which often results in better follow-thru and overall health outcomes.

We recognize that without community collaboration, people often fall through the cracks; we work closely with many other local social service agencies to identify encampments and people who could benefit from our services and vice versa.

Our Clinic

Clinic is held the 2nd Wednesday of each month.

** We are changing locations: UUCE parking lot, 1685 W 13th Ave, Eugene **

Our clinic hosts an integrative team of medical care: precribers (MD, NP, PA), wound nurses and herbalists.

Our monthly clinic provides stability and a place for ongoing care for folks on the street. People are displaced regularly by police and city workers making it difficult to track people down to provide ongoing care via outreach.

Read more on our Programs page.

Medical Outreach

We provide weekly roving outreach services to encampment locations located in the Eugene/Springfield area. Where the people are, we go. We walk down railroad tracks, alongside rivers and ditches, thru industrial waste fields and wetlands, and alongside sidewalks.

We offer direct medical care, survival and harm reduction supplies, water and resources. By bringing medical care directly to a person, we are able to support people with ongoing and sometimes simple medical interventions, that in turn prevent the need for more serious care or a hospital intervention later on. Read more on our Programs page.

A huge thank you to our donors, funders and community partners!

“With all the many people around here that hate on us these days, it’s refreshing and definitely feels good to have some people on our side. I just want to say thank you, on behalf of all of us houseless folks out here.”

—Unhoused Eugene resident after receiving care from our outreach team.