Edward ‘Teddie’ Honey is an Oakland native with over 15 years of experience in the non-profit and service-providing sector. Starting as an outreach worker for the Berkeley Needle Exchange, Teddie then spent five years working as a Peer Mentor for unhoused young adults in Diamond District of East Oakland before transitioning into residential treatment services focused on substance use, mental health and re-entry services. There he began to learn non-profit management, which led him to become the director of a community center in the Mission District of SF, followed by running a 75 bed congregate living shelter in the Tenderloin, and how has transitioned into the role as Program Director of the GRIP Training Institute. Teddie’s scope of work includes overdose prevention and response, dual diagnosis support and services, substance use counseling, street violence intervention and prevention, gang intervention, youth development, program design and group facilitation. He is a Harm Reduction Counselor and certified trainer through the DOPE Project and holds a degree in Childhood Development & Non-Profit Administration, as well as a teaching credential from the California Board of Education.Teddie joins the GRIP family with a lifelong dedication to address societal, economic and race based inequities, many of which fuel the industry of incarceration today.