HHCLA A(cronyms)
Harm Reduction
I Love L.A.
National Parks
Fun and Games
100
Hard-working team that keeps their clients housed for life.
What is HFH (Housing for Health)?
100
This drug can reverse an opiate overdose.
What is narcan/naloxone?
100
This Los Angeles professional sports team is the oldest team in their league to never make a playoffs appearance.
Who are the Los Angeles Clippers?
100
This California park straddles the Mojave and Colorado Deserts and takes its name from its unique plant life.
What is Joshua Tree National Park?
100
Board game in which players move uniform pieces diagonally across a board and capture each other's pieces by jumping them.
What is checkers?
200
Syringe exchange on Skid Row where community members can also receive Narcan and other supplies.
What is the CHR? (Center for Harm Reduction)
200
Using new syringes instead of sharing and reusing syringes reduces the risk of abscesses, as well as transmission of this type of microorganism which cause illnesses like HIV and Hepatitis B or C.
What are bloodborne pathogens?
200
The iconic Hollywood sign originated as an advertisement for housing development and said this when it was erected in 1923.
What is Hollywoodland?
200
The lands of this park in Utah have been home to Anasazi, Southern Paiute and Mormon peoples.
What is Zion National Park?
200
Classic addictive tile video game created by Alexey Pajitnov in 1984.
What is Tetris?
300
Outpatient substance abuse treatment program that uses a harm reduction approach and can help clients fulfill DCFS or court requirements through group and individual treatment.
What is ITP? (Integrated Treatment Program)
300
Using drugs in this manner instead of injecting can reduce the risk of overdose.
What is smoking/inhaling?
300
Baggy suits have been prohibited in L.A. since this 1943 event, where military servicemen, off-duty policemen and white civilians clashed with Latino Angelenos.
What are the Zoot Suit Riots?
300
This most-visited park in the United States was historically home to several Cherokee tribes, some of whom remained in the area in spite of President Jackson's efforts to remove them.
What is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
300
Nickelodeon adventure game show that aired from 1993 to 1995, featuring trivia, obstacle courses and teams like the Purple Parrots and Silver Snakes.
What is Legends of the Hidden Temple?
400
Staff in this department are often co-located at locations across the city and provide substance use assessments and referrals to treatment.
What is CENS? (Client Engagement and Navigation Services)
400
These facilities are currently illegal in the United States, but are found in Europe and reduce the risk of overdose and other harmful effects of drug use through providing medical care, supplies, supervision, and overdose reversal when needed.
What are supervised injection/consumption sites?
400
What is The Broad?
400
This park was named after its record-breaking peak, which was named after a U.S. president, before being decolonized and returned to its original name meaning "the high one" in native Athabaskan language in 2015.
What is Denali National Park and Preserve?
400
Two-point play for the defense in American football, occurring after the offense loses the ball or commits a foul behind the goal line.
What is a safety?
500
Team offering intensive services to folks being released from jail or prison, including obtaining identification, housing and medical care.
What is RICMS? (Re-entry Intensive Case Management Services)
500
These laws protect people who use or possess drugs from prosecution if they call for emergency help in case of an overdose.
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
500
Los Angeles or L.A. is the common name for the city today, but it was originally known by this name.
What is El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula?
500
Southern Oregon National Park named after its striking geographic feature--a body of water created by a volcanic explosion and separate from any streams or rivers. Its waters are replenished strictly through rain and snow.
What is Crater Lake National Park?
500
The dots on dominos or dice are formally known as this.
What are pips?