The opioid epidemic is a serious problem in the United States and has led to numerous overdoses. To reduce overdoses, distributing naloxone in hotspots is a proven harm reduction strategy. The Behavioral Community Research Action Team (BCRAT) at WSU partnered with a local harm reduction coalition, Safe Streets Wichita, to evaluate the processes and initial outcomes of the coalition’s harm reduction strategy. As part of the evaluation, the purpose of this poster was to gather the perceptions of Safe Streets staff on how well the naloxone distribution was conducted in the community in hotspots throughout Sedgwick County. Qualitative interviews were conducted with Safe Streets Wichita staff. A thematic analysis following Braun and Clake (2006, 2022) was used to analyze the interviews. After the interviews were transcribed and coded, two major themes were identified: (1) lack of funding as a major barrier and (2) the impact of stigma. The staff described the need for more funding to continue to give out information, naloxone kits, and fentanyl test strips. They also discussed how no funding allocated toward positions was a barrier. The thematic analysis also showed that stigma contributes to people who experience substance-related harms and affects the outreach of harm reduction efforts.