New Hampshire Volunteer Opportunities

07.10.25 12:19 PM - Comment(s) - By Harm Reduction Circle

Join the Circle: Volunteering with Harm Reduction Circle

Expanding Life-Saving Access Across the State of New Hampshire

    At Harm Reduction Circle, volunteering means more than lending a hand — it means joining a movement built on compassion, community, and evidence-based care. Whether you’re distributing naloxone, helping at a festival sanctuary space, or connecting with unhoused neighbors in Orange County, every volunteer helps save lives and reduce stigma around substance use.


Our volunteers come from all walks of life — healthcare, nightlife, academia, art, recovery, and beyond. What unites them is a belief that everyone deserves safety, dignity, and access to care. Volunteers receive orientation and ongoing training in harm-reduction principles, overdose response, communication, and trauma-informed engagement, ensuring every interaction is rooted in empathy and respect.

New Hampshire SSP Volunteer Opportunities:

These roles support Harm Reduction Circle’s state-authorized Syringe Services Program (SSP) and the statewide mail-order harm-reduction system. Volunteers help make overdose prevention, safer-use supplies, and infectious-disease prevention accessible across New Hampshire’s diverse regions—from dense urban centers to rural mountain towns.


You’ll be part of a team that distributes tens of thousands of doses of naloxone each year, connects people to health services, provides essential supplies, and helps build safer nightlife and community spaces. Every shift directly contributes to preventing overdoses and strengthening the safety net for people who use drugs.

Syringe Services Program (SSP) Coordinator — Statewide Role

The SSP Coordinator leads the provision of syringe services across New Hampshire, including syringe exchange, safer-injection education, HIV/HCV rapid testing, wound-care guidance, naloxone distribution, and safer-use supplies. They help participants navigate safer-use strategies, understand injection hygiene, and access referrals for MOUD, primary care, wound care, SUD treatment, and social supports.


This role maintains a welcoming, stigma-free environment where PWID can receive services without judgment. The Coordinator also manages SSP data collection to ensure compliance with New Hampshire public-health reporting requirements and oversees the statewide mail-order request system for sterile supplies, naloxone, and test strips.

Best Fit For:
Volunteers with strong communication skills, trauma-informed practice, and a deep understanding of PWID health needs.

Community Outreach Specialist – Hillsborough Region (Manchester, Nashua & Surrounding Cities)

This volunteer supports harm-reduction services in New Hampshire’s highest-density region, focusing on Manchester, Nashua, and nearby hotspots. They provide naloxone, safer-use supplies, FTS guidance, and linkage to local services. The role emphasizes city-based focus—the volunteer is not responsible for county-wide coverage, but instead anchors a specific area (e.g., “Manchester-focused” or “Nashua-focused”).


This specialist also supports mail-order fulfillment for their assigned city cluster and helps coordinate occasional pop-ups with the SSP Coordinator.

Complete List of Cities/Towns (Hillsborough County):

  • Manchester

  • Nashua

  • Hudson

  • Merrimack

  • Bedford

  • Goffstown

  • Litchfield

  • Amherst

  • Milford

  • Hollis

  • Brookline

  • Wilton

  • Lyndeborough

  • Mont Vernon

  • Greenville

  • New Ipswich

  • Peterborough

  • Temple

  • Sharon

  • Antrim

  • Bennington

  • Hancock

  • Deering

  • Francestown

  • Greenfield

  • Weare

  • Windsor

Community Outreach Specialist – Rockingham Region (Seacoast, Portsmouth, Derry, Salem)

This role anchors harm-reduction support across key Seacoast and southern suburban hubs—such as Portsmouth, Derry, Salem, and neighboring towns. Volunteers provide naloxone, FTS, supply distribution, and education through local meetups or micro-outreach routes. They also maintain regional mail-order coverage for individuals who cannot travel.


The volunteer focuses on their home sub-region, not the entire county, ensuring sustainable, geographically realistic service.

Complete List of Cities/Towns (Rockingham County):

  • Portsmouth

  • Dover* (border city, sometimes serviced jointly)

  • Hampton

  • Hampton Beach

  • Seabrook

  • Rye

  • North Hampton

  • New Castle

  • Newington

  • Exeter

  • Stratham

  • Greenland

  • Newfields

  • East Kingston

  • Kingston

  • Brentwood

  • Epping

  • Fremont

  • Danville

  • Sandown

  • Hampstead

  • Plaistow

  • Atkinson

  • Salem

  • Derry

  • Londonderry

  • Windham

  • Chester

  • Auburn

  • Candia

  • Raymond

  • Nottingham

  • Deerfield

  • Northwood

Community Outreach Specialist – Merrimack & Sullivan Region (Concord, Claremont & Central-West Towns)

Anchored in Concord, Claremont, or nearby towns, this volunteer supports harm-reduction access across central New Hampshire and the western corridor. They conduct periodic in-person outreach, distribute naloxone and safer-use supplies, and help people navigate referrals to treatment or social supports.


This role functions as a regional anchor, balancing mail-order fulfillment with occasional in-person support—not blanket geographic coverage.

Complete List of Cities/Towns (Merrimack County + Sullivan County):

Merrimack County

  • Concord

  • Penacook

  • Hooksett

  • Bow

  • Pembroke

  • Allenstown

  • Epsom

  • Chichester

  • Loudon

  • Canterbury

  • Boscawen

  • Franklin

  • Northfield

  • Salisbury

  • Andover

  • Wilmot

  • Warner

  • Bradford

  • Sutton

  • New London

  • Newbury

  • Sunapee

  • Webster

  • Hopkinton

  • Henniker

  • Hillsborough

  • Deering


Sullivan County

  • Claremont

  • Newport

  • Charlestown

  • Unity

  • Grantham

  • Springfield

  • Sunapee* (borders Merrimack)

  • Croydon

  • Goshen

  • Lempster

  • Washington

  • Acworth

  • Langdon

  • Plainfield

  • Cornish

Community Outreach Specialist – Strafford & Belknap Region (Dover, Rochester, UNH/Durham, Laconia & Lakes Region)

This volunteer supports harm-reduction education and supply distribution in the eastern part of the state—including Dover, Rochester, Durham/UNH, and the Lakes Region. They may focus on either a campus/nightlife cluster (e.g., Durham) or a Lakes Region cluster (e.g., Laconia), depending on where they reside.


The role balances community-based outreach, targeted campus engagement, and mail-order coverage for individuals across both counties.

Dover, Rochester, Durham/UNH, Laconia & Lakes Region

Strafford County

  • Dover

  • Rochester

  • Durham (UNH)

  • Somersworth

  • Barrington

  • Strafford

  • Northwood* (shared county)

  • Farmington

  • Middleton

  • New Durham

  • Milton

  • Lee

  • Rollinsford

  • Madbury


Belknap County

  • Laconia

  • Belmont

  • Gilford

  • Gilmanton

  • Alton

  • Barnstead

  • Meredith

  • Center Harbor

  • New Hampton

  • Sanbornton

  • Tilton* (Belknap side)

Community Outreach Specialist – Grafton & Carroll Region (White Mountains & Rural North-Central)

This volunteer serves as a regional anchor across rural, high-distance locations in the White Mountains and surrounding towns. They focus on mail-order supply fulfillment, tele-support, and occasional in-person outreach when road conditions and geography allow.


The position is intentionally episodic, recognizing winter barriers, long travel times, and low population density.

White Mountains & Rural North-Central

Grafton County

  • Lebanon

  • Hanover

  • Enfield

  • Canaan

  • Dorchester

  • Orange

  • Grafton

  • Plymouth

  • Campton

  • Ashland

  • Bristol

  • Holderness

  • Rumney

  • Wentworth

  • Warren

  • Haverhill

  • Woodsville*

  • Bath

  • Littleton* (Grafton side)

  • Franconia

  • Sugar Hill

  • Lisbon

  • Landaff

  • Monroe

  • Thornton

  • Ellsworth

  • Lincoln

  • Woodstock


Carroll County

  • Conway (North Conway)

  • Bartlett

  • Jackson

  • Hart’s Location

  • Chatham

  • Albany

  • Madison

  • Eaton

  • Freedom

  • Ossipee

  • Wolfeboro

  • Tuftonboro

  • Moultonborough

  • Sandwich

  • Tamworth

  • Effingham

  • Wakefield

Community Outreach Specialist – Coös Region (Far North)

This volunteer acts as a hyper-local connector for New Hampshire’s northernmost communities. Their primary responsibilities include mail-order fulfillment, localized supply drop-offs, and connecting isolated individuals to appropriate services.


Due to long-distance travel and harsh seasonal conditions, the role does not require regional coverage—only support within the volunteer’s immediate area.

Complete List of Cities/Towns (Coös County):

  • Berlin

  • Gorham

  • Shelburne

  • Randolph

  • Jefferson

  • Lancaster

  • Whitefield

  • Dalton

  • Carroll (Twin Mountain/Bretton Woods)

  • Bethlehem* (Coös side overlaps)

  • Northumberland (Groveton)

  • Stratford

  • Stark

  • Milan

  • Dummer

  • Errol

  • Cambridge

  • Millsfield

  • Dixville

  • Colebrook

  • Columbia

  • Stewartstown

  • Pittsburg

  • Clarksville

NH Volunteer Application

Explore Volunteer Opportunities

We organize our volunteer work into five primary sectors — each unique in its setting and focus, but united by shared values of harm reduction, respect, and compassion:

1. Festival & Nightlife
​Volunteer Opportunities:

Work with our team to create safer nightlife environments by providing harm-reduction education, peer support, and overdose prevention at concerts, clubs, and festivals.

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2. Orange County, CA
Volunteer Opportunities:

Join our mobile outreach teams distributing naloxone, fentanyl test strips, food, and hygiene supplies to unhoused and at-risk individuals across Orange County.

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3. ​New Hampshire
​Volunteer Opportunities:

Support our New Hampshire team with peer-led harm reduction, mail-order supply coordination, and direct outreach as part of a state-authorized Syringe Services Program.

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4. Remote Administrative
​Volunteer Opportunities:

For individuals who want to contribute behind the scenes, our remote volunteers support logistics, data entry, mail-order fulfillment, and admin support.

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5. Board of Directors
Volunteer Opportunities:

For experienced leaders, professionals, and advocates seeking deeper involvement, Harm Reduction Circle occasionally offers opportunities on our Board of Directors.

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Become Part of the Circle

Volunteering with Harm Reduction Circle means stepping into a community built on dignity, safety, and collective care. Our volunteers help shape environments where people are met with respect, support, and practical tools to stay alive. Whether you’re offering peer support, distributing naloxone, or helping teams behind the scenes, your presence strengthens a safety net that reaches people others often overlook. Join us  as we’re expanding access, preventing overdoses, and building healthier, more connected communities rooted in compassion and evidence-based care.

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