Certified branded bottles and backpacks as harm reduction

The FY2024 report lists a program named Montclair Township Community Outreach, recipient Montclair Township, primary category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, at 29,244.33 expended (pp6 to 7). It describes the Health Department giving out educational materials and supplies to reduce opioid related overdoses. Thirteen payments from 08/15/2023 to 05/23/2024 make the figure to the cent. The largest is 4imprint purchase order 2301696, 17,007.97, check 18705 on 09/26/2023. Invoice 11640785 bills 200 laser engraved Hydro Flask bottles at 6,696.73 and 250 embroidered North Face Connector laptop backpacks at 10,311.24. The FY2025 update certifies the same program at 20,985.40 and describes it as distributing harm reduction products (p6). Its figure includes 4imprint screen printed T-shirts at 1,072.45 and embroidered backpacks at 1,503.20, check 21409 on 10/08/2024. Across the two reports 19,583.62 of branded merchandise sits inside a program certified as harm reduction. The FY2024 report says the Township handed out bags holding test strips, Narcan and educational materials. No listed use covers branded bottles, laptop backpacks or shirts, and no evidence-based program using them is documented.