| Beneficiaries BENEFICIARY APPLICATIONS FOR 2012 ARE NOW OPEN. Applications can be downloaded
from this site or obtained by writing to: Beneficiaries for 2012 Help is on the Way XVIII AIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL POSITIVE RESORCE CENTER (PRC) AIDS HOUSING ALLIANCE. TENDERLOIN HEALTH.
Help is on the Way for the Holidays XI LARKIN STREET YOUTH CENTER MAITRI.
Maitri’s comprehensive program includes these main components: Access to multi-disciplinary care professionals including nurses, attendants, social workers, physicians, and psychiatrists; Single-occupancy room in a facility designed as a healing space, nurturing home, and functional dwelling; Spiritual and pastoral support; Emotional and practical support volunteers; Activities including art therapy, meditation, and body work; and Home-cooked meals by a stellar kitchen staff and individual dietary plans to meet specific needs Beneficiaries for 2011 Help is on the Way XVII AGUILAS In November of 1991, a group of Gay Latinos organized to address the various needs of the Gay Latino community. The group met on a monthly basis at various homes until they found a regular meeting place at the St. Francis Lutheran Church in San Francisco, California in March 1992. They established the name AGUILAS which is an acronym for Asociación Gay Unida Impactando Latinos/Latinas A Superarse, which translates to Association of United Gays Impacting Latinos/Latinas towards Self-Empowerment. Today, AGUILAS is a non-profit organization and the largest Gay Latino organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. El Ambiente is an HIV prevention program of AGUILAS created by and for gay and bisexual Latino men. Their goal is to support their members self-empowerment in order to prevent the occurrence and relapse of unsafe sexual practices. They achieve this by providing a safe environment, specifically designed to address issues related to Latino culture, being gay and bisexual, and sexuality. YOUTH AWARE PROGRAM AT NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER For two decades, NCTC's highly successful YouthAware Educational Theatre program has produced plays for young people that entertain, illuminate social issues, inspire and encourage healthier life choices. Programs focus primarily on HIV education information and anti discrimination.
SHANTI Founded in 1974, Shanti was one of the first-ever volunteer organizations to work with terminally-ill clients and, later, became the first community-based agency in the U.S. to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Shanti is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life, health and well-being of people living with life-threatening illnesses including HIV/AIDS and breast cancer. The organization’s services increase access to medical care, provide information and health counseling that helps people make informed decisions about their treatment and improve their health outcomes, and offers practical assistance, emotional support, and social activities that reduce social isolation and enhance overall quality of life. Over the past three decades Shanti has used its internationally recognized Shanti Model of Peer SupportTM to train more than 15,000 volunteers who’ve helped many thousands of men and women handle the challenges of living with HIV/AIDS. Often, Shanti is a client’s sole source of support and care advocacy during their greatest time of need. Shanti delivers free services to individuals with HIV/AIDS through their HIV Direct Services Program and through the L.I.F.E. Program®. The primary goal of the HIV Direct Services Program is to establish and encourage a continuity of HIV treatment and care through the provision of culturally competent support to at-risk, underserved HIV positive communities with an emphasis on communities of color, the dually and triply diagnosed, the aging population, the homeless/marginally housed and clients living in underserved neighborhoods. Primary services include care navigation, peer advocacy, a drop-in center, activities and events and women’s services. The L.I.F.E. Program® is a health-enhancement program based on the latest medical research in mind-body medicine. “L.I.F.E.” stands for Learning Immune Function Enhancement. Evaluation research shows that L.I.F.E. reduces risk behavior, improves quality of life, increases medication adherence and reduces health problems. The L.I.F.E. Program® has the potential to increase the health of individuals with HIV, Hepatitis C, Breast Cancer and other immune related illnesses. The L.I.F.E. Program operates in three other cities in California, as well as in Florida, Massachusetts and Missouri. STOP AIDS PROJECT ?Since 1985, STOP AIDS has been working to prevent HIV transmission among all gay, bisexual and transgender men in San Francisco through collaborative, multicultural and community-based organizing. Initiating a new approach to HIV transmission they focus on identifying those individuals most at risk through their involvement in one or more of six sexual networks: the African American community, public and commercial sex environments, dance clubs, gyms, the leather community and internet sex sites. They also provide services for HIV positive people through their prevention for positives program whereby they inform the newly infected and those close to them with options for retaining Their own good health and committing to a lifestyle free of further infection. STOP AIDS Project's mission is to provide HIV Prevention services to gay, bisexual and transgender men in San Francisco. STOP AIDS was founded in 1985. At that time, private house parties were used to help reduce the HIV infection rate in a two year period from 18% a year to 1%. In recent years STOP AIDS has instituted new strategies that have once again resulted in a reduction of HIV infection in San Francisco at a time when HIV infection is increasing in other metropolitan centers. Help is on the Way for the Holidays X Positive Resource Center (PRC) Since 1987, PRC has provided benefits counseling, advocacy and employment services to people affected by or at risk for HIV/AIDS. The Benefits Counseling Program maintains a 90 percent success rate in all Social Security and State Disability claims filed on behalf of clients. In 2004, Employment Services Program achieved 435 job placements including 134 long-term placements. Positive Resource Center serves 2,200 people annually. Sunburst Projects. Since 1988, Sunburst Projects has helped improve the lives of thousands of mainly low-income HIV/AIDS affected family members and children unable to cope with the disease on their own. Serving families throughout Northern California, Sunburst Projects is the only local AIDS organization solely committed to addressing the social, emotional, and psychological needs and care of HIV/AIDS impacted children and their families. Today Sunburst provides the following ongoing family support services that help educate, strengthen, and empower families with children impacted by HIV/AIDS: Camp Sunburst, respite childcare services, mental health services, support groups, family-centered case management, and HIV/AIDS prevention and education. Additionally, for the past twenty years Sunburst Projects has been an important voice and advocate for raising awareness about the need for supportive services that address the specific concerns of HIV/AIDS families with dependent children.
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