Who We Are

The Northern Aid Society is a network and collected group that believes health, safety, medical aid, and social care are all the responsibility of a community. By being present at collected gathering, social activities, demonstration, large events, and other communal spaces, we can help others participate and enjoy a safe social activity. We do so by delivering a formation of a semi-formal, highly visible, apolitical collective of health and safety volunteers who shall provide medical mutual aid and wellbeing care at community engagement events. 

Through the practice of street medicine, we step beyond the walls of traditional health systems to meet people where they are: at protests, rallies, festivals, and other events where access to rapid first‐aid and crisis support can mean the difference between harm and healing.

At the core of our work is mutual aid: a horizontal, cooperative system in which community members voluntarily pool skills, resources, and knowledge for the common good. Unlike hierarchical services, our model depends on solidarity, shared responsibility, and rapid response. Each volunteer brings unique strengths—mental health care, de‐escalation expertise, foreign language fluency, or public‐health training—so that together we form a resilient safety net.

By safeguarding the health and well-being of participants, we create the space for robust civic engagement and the exercise of constitutional rights. People can march, speak, organize, and assemble with greater confidence when medics in identifiable helmets and gear stand ready to aid them. In doing so, we not only tend to wounds and prevent harm but also uphold the freedom to protest, petition, and participate in democracy itself.

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