June 2011
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2010 McKinney-Vento Grant
We are pleased to announced that we have been awarded funding for the 2010 McKinney-Vento homeless assistance grant by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. We were awarded funding for 13 housing units for the Permanent Supportive Housing Project.
The Continuum of Care (CoC) Homeless Assistance Program is an important part of HUD’s mission. CoCs all over the country continue to...
August 2010
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CDC Awards $42 Million to Community-Based...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today that it has awarded $42 million to 133 community-based organizations (CBOs) to help implement HIV prevention efforts among populations at greatest risk. The average award is approximately $323,000 per year for five years.
“This funding is a critical part of CDC’s national HIV prevention efforts and is in line with the priorities...
July 2007
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$2.4 Million Funding Reduction From HRSA
Philadelphia Health Department’s Press Release: FEDERAL CUTS FORCE REDUCTION IN HIV/AIDS SERVICES Some Programs To Be Eliminated
The Philadelphia EMA Ryan White HIV Planning Council has adopted a revised funding allocation in response to federal funding cuts totaling $2.4 million. The new plan preserves funding for the core medical and social services that are most needed by persons living with...
June 2007
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April 2007
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The AIDS Care Group and the St. Michael’s House
In 1998, the agency was at first able to utilize its own small clinical facility. As the programs expanded the agency rented space from its neighbor, Catholic Social Services. As these spaces grew insufficient, the agency found and purchased in December 2005 a building in need of significant repair, but ideally sized and located for its many successful and supportive programs.Formerly the rectory...
March 2007
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A Center for Women’s Health
Starting as a disease identified to men of means, the face of AIDS is becoming more akin to that of minority women living with poverty. Clinical laboratory markers of disease at any level spell a more frightening picture for women than men. The disease progression differs more adversely, and the social consequence of disease has a far more profound effect. In establishing a Women’s Health Care...
Why Expand Our Dental Program?
The dental program is one of only five in the Philadelphia region funded to provide dental care to the uninsured patient living with HIV disease. So why a need for expansion? Because the five programs lumped together barely touch the surface of needs of the HIV population living in the Philadelphia region or the adjacent western counties. The South Center HIV/AIDS Consortia which provides services...
January 2007
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Offsetting Changes in Governmental Funding
The Ryan White CARE Act is the principal source of funding for the AIDS Care Group. Annual budgets have grown from $425,000 in 1998 to $2,480,000 in 2007. The legislation authorizing the Ryan White CARE Act was recently re-enacted for a period of three years. These next three years will see funding cuts of 5%. More cuts are expected at a time when more patients will be seeking care; and more...
Addiction in Chester
Smoking, crack cocaine, heroine, and now gambling. Addictions have been a way of life in Chester for over fifty years. Substance abuse has been identified as the single greatest cause of the level of crime throughout the city; and is most probably the cause for domestic chaos, low educational attainment rates, and the HIV disease progression rate. With State laws currently allowing for the...