Programs
Direct 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
- Annual Client Retreat
- Compassion Fund provides emergency
financial assistance to clients
- Individual support
- Monthly support groups
- Peer support
- Information resourcing
- Referrals to other services
- Holiday gift program
- Currently, we provide Translation Services in the following languages – Portuguese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Shona, French, Tamil, Hebrew, Sinhalese.
Our goal is to recruit new volunteers with additional language skills
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 program
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
For PDF format, please click here.
Speakers trained and ready to go
for ACYR Speakers' Bureau
On September 26 and 27, we trained our new speaker volunteers for the new ACYR Speakers' Bureau, and Shari Margolese, PHA and activist, led our How to Tell Your Story training session. On December 1, at the Speaking Out: Health, Housing, Stigma and HIV/AIDS Community Forum, we will officially launch our new program. We have eight speaker volunteers, who will now be available to go into the community and speak about discrimination and what it's like to live with and be affected with HIV/AIDS.
If you have any questions about this program or would like to have one of our amazing speakers come to your organization or school, please contact:
Jacqui Locke
Coordinator of Events and Volunteer Programs
905-953-0248, ext 203
volcoordacyr@bellnet.ca.
Revised June 30, 2010
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