Meet the Team

Sylvia Meza

SUDRC #9205

Sylvia Meza is a Substance Use Specialist for Homeless Health Care LA at the Center for Harm Reduction in Skid-row. Her role at the CHR is to assist patients in getting MAT (Medicated Assisted Treatment). She also works at LACUSC with addiction medicine as a Substance Use Navigator/Case manager.
Sylvia believes that humanism directs us to ethics of care, a practice of care, the development of a compassionate temperament and importance of love and kindness in human lives.
Sylvia has had the opportunity to work in the biggest consumption site in Denmark. She has received several lifesaving awards for reversing overdoses.

MATC# L2303160736, CADTP #1513, SUDCCIII-CS

Herman is a dedicated SUDCC III-CS that has been counseling people experiencing homelessness, incarceration population and adolescent population suffering from substance use disorders in Los Angeles County for the last 23 years. One of Herman’s priorities has been educating the family system on their loved ones suffering from SUD, providing an understanding of what their loved ones go through when they are on the road to recovery.

Ginny Eck is a passionate advocate for underserved populations in Los Angeles County. Working as a project director at Wesley Health Centers, a federally qualified health center, she helped start the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) program from 2016-Present, which has provided medications, counseling and support for patients suffering from opioid, alcohol and stimulant use disorders. She also worked for CHPLA, a non-profit syringe exchange, starting the Opioid Overdose and Narcan Distribution program through a partnership with LA county Office of Diversion and Reentry. She is also a “MAT Coach” for Center for Care Innovation’s Addiction Treatment Starts Here: Primary Care. She has spent 7 years working directly with individuals experiencing homelessness, patients who were previously incarcerated and those with substance use disorders.