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
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.
ACYR Speakers' Bureau
Speaker volunteers have been trained for the ACYR Speakers' Bureau and are available to go into the community and speak about discrimination and what it's like to live with and be affected with HIV/AIDS.
The program has excellent resources to support it: a video, training manual, and PowerPoint Presentation - see Media for these resources. If you are interested in participating in the program, have any questions or would like to have one of our speakers come to your organization or school, please contact:
Jacqui Locke
Coordinator of Events and Volunteer Programs
905-953-0248, ext 203
volunteeracyr@bellnet.ca.
Revised
December 22, 2011
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