POVERELLO AMONG SITES SELECTED FOR E2i CCTA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 13, 2018
CONTACT
Fenway Health: Christopher Viveiros / cviveiros@fenwayhealth.org / 617.927.6342
AIDS United: Kyle Murphy / kmurphy@aidsunited.org / 202.876.2820
26 HIV/AIDS Programs Across US Receive Funding for Interventions from The Fenway Institute
and AIDS United’s Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance
The Evidence-Informed Interventions Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance (E2i CCTA), funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s HIV/AIDS Bureau (HRSA/HAB) and led by The Fenway Institute in partnership with AIDS United, has awarded 26 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) recipient organizations across the United States with up to $170,000 in funding per year through 2021. These funds will be used for sites to implement effective, culturally-tailored interventions as part of an initiative entitled, Using Evidence-informed Interventions to Improve Health Outcomes among People Living with HIV (PLWH). The four intervention focus areas are: transgender women, Black men who have sex with men (MSM), behavioral health integration into primary medical care, and identifying and addressing trauma.
“We are thrilled to begin implementation of evidence-informed interventions for people living with HIV at 26 sites that are wonderfully diverse in terms of geography, organizational type, interventions offered, and populations served,” said Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH, Principal Investigator for the E2i CCTA. “This initiative will allow HRSA/HAB to rapidly disseminate lessons learned and ultimately help scale up best practices for effective implementation of interventions across all RWHAP recipient organizations, to significantly improve HIV health outcomes in the U.S.”
The initiative’s Evaluation Center is based at the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, which will assess the impact of technical assistance by the CCTA on viral suppression and retention in care among PLWH.
The selected sites, from California to Massachusetts and from Alaska to Puerto Rico, constitute a broad array of community-based organizations, federally qualified health care centers, public health departments, and universities that will serve to improve health outcomes for a diverse population of PLWH.
A complete list of the award recipients is available below:
- Birmingham AIDS Outreach Inc: Birmingham, Alabama
- California Prostitutes Education Project, Inc.: Oakland, California
- Rutgers New Jersey Medical School: Newark, New Jersey
- Henry Ford Health System: Detroit, Michigan
- CrescentCare: New Orleans, Louisiana
- CENTRO ARARAT, INC.: Ponce, Puerto Rico
- AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland: Cleveland, Ohio
- Houston County Board of Health/dba North Central Health District- HOPE Center: Macon, Georgia
- Broward House, Inc.: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- University of Mississippi Medical Center: Jackson, Mississippi
- AIDS Partnership Michigan: Detroit, Michigan
- Research Foundation SUNY HEAT Program: Brooklyn, New York
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center: Methuen, Massachusetts
- Consejo de Salud de Puerto Rico Inc.: Ponce, Puerto Rico
- La Clinica del Pueblo, Inc: Washington, D.C.
- Oklahoma State University Center Health Sciences: Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Health Emergency Lifeline Programs: Detroit, Michigan
- Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, Inc: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- The Poverello Center Inc: Wilton Manors, Florida
- North Jersey Community Research Initiative: Newark, New Jersey
- Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium: Anchorage, Alaska
- Chicago Women’s AIDS Project: Chicago, Illinois
- Western North Carolina Community Health56: Asheville, North Carolina
- Positive Impact Health Centers: Decatur, Georgia
- Multicultural AIDS Coalition: Boston, Massachusetts
- The Regents of the Univ. of Calif., U.C. San Diego: La Jolla, California
You can learn more about the initiative by clicking here.
Since 1971, Fenway Health has been working to make life healthier for the people in our neighborhood, the LGBT community, people living with HIV/AIDS and the broader population. The Fenway Institute at Fenway Health is an interdisciplinary center for research, training, education and policy development focusing on national and international health issues. Fenway’s Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center cares for youth and young adults ages 12 to 29 who may not feel comfortable going anywhere else, including those who are LGBT or just figuring things out; homeless; struggling with substance use; or living with HIV/AIDS. In 2013, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts joined the Fenway Health family, allowing both organizations to improve delivery of care and services across the state and beyond.
AIDS United’s mission is to end the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. through strategic grant-making, capacity building, formative resarch and policy. AIDS United works to ensure access to life-saving HIV/AIDS care and prevention services and to advance sound HIV/AIDS-related policy for U.S. populations and communities most impacted by the epidemic. To date, our strategic grant-making initiatives have directly funded more than $104 million to local communities and have leveraged more than $117 million in additional investments for programs that include, but are not limited to HIV prevention, access to care, capacity building, harm reduction and advocacy. www.aidsunited.org.
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POVERELLO VOLUNTEER “UNCLE AL” ISN’T SLOWING DOWN
In the clothing sorting area at the Poverello Thrift Store, “Uncle Al” has become a regular fixture, volunteering his time four mornings a week for well over a year now. Most people at Poverello probably don’t even know that his last name is Gibson, or that his friends also call him “Alley Paley.” But the connotation that this man is either your “uncle” or your “pal” says a lot about his character.
Born in Brooklyn, raised in the Bronx, and eventually settling in Seaford, Long Island, Al Gibson at 89 years of age is not even thinking about slowing down. “No matter what ails you, you’ve got to keep moving,” he said while taking a break from his volunteer duties. And when he’s not volunteering at Poverello, Uncle Al is the day manager at le Boy, a gay club in Fort Lauderdale.
In 1950, Uncle Al was drafted into the Army, serving for two years as a mess sergeant at Army bases in New Jersey, Georgia, Texas and California. But it was his service at Camp Desert Rock in Nevada that was the most memorable. For believe it or not, Al and his company were ordered outside to witness firsthand (and at relatively close range) an above ground test of an atomic bomb. “It goes without saying,” he remarked, “that it was an experience I will never forget.”
After he got out of the Army, Al went to work for his father and mother at their office furniture and interior design business, S. Gibson and Son. During this time, he married and had two sons and a daughter (and now six grandchildren as well). But it wasn’t long before he went his own way, purchasing a competitors office furniture and interior design business in the garment district of Manhattan. His sons took over running the business when he retired to Florida in 1980.
When Uncle Al arrived, he purchased a condo in Fort Lauderdale, where he still lives today. At the time, his mother was living in Broward County, with other relatives in the area as well. He eventually took a job as controller for American Excess, a company that bought and sold excess inventory. After leaving that position, and taking a much needed break, he was at it again, this time taking a job as a bartender at the Fort Lauderdale gay club Johnny’s. Before long his involvement at Johnny’s grew to working in the office and as a club manager. It was at Johnny’s that Uncle Al first became acquainted with Poverello. As part of his duties as a manager at the club, he would occasionally conduct auctions, raffles and car washes to benefit Poverello, raising a lot of cash for the charity. A little over a year ago, after operating for more than 30 years at its two locations, Johnny’s closed its doors, opening the next day as le Boy at its new location on 11th Street at the original Bill’s Filling Station location.
“Poverello is the greatest charity around,” Uncle Al remarked. “They do a world of good here, and they have a wonderful group of volunteers. I love working here and would do anything they asked me to do,” he added. “It’s part of what keeps me going.”
Article written by James Stoup, Poverello Volunteer
03/16/2018.
POVERELLO SELECTED TO IMPLEMENT SBIRT
Poverello has been selected to implement Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), with technical assistance from the Evidence-Informed Interventions (E2i) Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance (CCTA), Fenway Institute, AIDS United and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB). The 15 month program will bring the Eat Well Center staff evidence based screening for things like substance abuse, mental health and smoking. “Getting into care has always been a priority for us, now we’re able to make sure our program participants are accessing broader care, including substance abuse and mental health counseling and smoking cessation” CEO Thomas Pietrogallo, LCSW, MBA stated. The program utilizes brief questions to ensure people who may need treatment are engaged in community care sites that provide these services. Pietrogallo said, “We want our program participants to eat well, live well and be well. Ensuring they have access to high quality services available in the community is an important way we can help them achieve healthy outcomes.” Ryan White Part A conducted a mental health focus group in 2016 that indicated local recipients needed better information about available services. This funding partially addresses this need. The program will refer participants back to the provider of their choice for mental health, substance abuse or smoking cessation counseling. For more information, check out AIDS United’s prior grantees here.