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Complete contact
information:

AIDS Committee
of York Region
194 Eagle Street East
Newmarket ON L3Y 1J6

Phone:
905-953-0248
Toll-free:
1-800-243-7717
Fax:
905-953-1372
E-mail:
acyr@bellnet.ca
Website:
www.acyr.org

ACYR programs and services

• HIV Drive-to-Care provides free door-to-door transportation for geographically isolated PHA’s to medical and other treatment and care appointments in Toronto. Currently, this service is providing an average of 10 rides per month
  
• Healthy Hamper provides monthly food baskets to ensure client nutritional needs are being met on a regular basis
  
• Compassion Fund provides emergency financial assistance to clients
  
• Individual support
• Monthly support groups
• Peer support
• Information resourcing
• Referrals to other services
• Holiday gift program

Education and Outreach

As a means of increasing organizational visibility and preventing the further spread of HIV/AIDS, the AIDS Committee of York Region offers:

• Workshops
• Working at the street level to identify and educate those engaging in high-risk behaviours, as HIV/AIDS impacts people deemed "at-risk" at a higher rate than the general population
• Classroom presentations
• Agency staff/volunteer training
• Community information workshops
• Speakers' Bureau
• Ongoing drop-in services
• Special events and volunteer prorgram

Referrals

The AIDS Committee of York Region also works with a variety of other agencies on an ongoing basis to link people living with HIV/AIDS and those affected by HIV/AIDS to services. Over the past eighteen months, more than 200 referrals have been documented enabling our clients to access services at other agencies.

Partnerships

The AIDS Committee of York Region is best described as a grassroots organization made up of a network of individuals, small groups, and community agency partners. Without its wide array of support, the AIDS Committee of York Region would not be able to offer the standard of care that it does.

Since its inception, the AIDS Committee of York has collaborated with York Region Public Health on service provision as well as a number of initiatives to meet the education gaps among social service providers.

The AIDS Committee of York Region also works in partnership with Transit Georgina to implement its Drive-to-Care Program.

Our partners are crucial to our success.

In addition, the AIDS Committee of York Region also works with a variety of other agencies on an on-going basis to link people living with HIV/AIDS to services.

HIV/AIDS Community Plan

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Revised November 20, 2007