AIDS Project Hartford's Outreach and Education Committee consists of staff and volunteers that plan and participate in HIV awareness-raising events throughout the community. The Committee meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 6pm to 110 Bartholomew Avenue.  Please join us.  All are welcome!

Upcoming Events

 

AIDS WALK 2007
Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 11am, registration at 9:30am
MDC Reservoir-Rte. 4, Farmington/West Hartford line
For more information, contact Bill at

(860) 951-4833. ext. 302

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Ongoing Events

 

POSITIVE ATTITUDES:

Social group for HIV+ gay/by men 2nd Sunday of each month at 50 Fitch Street, New Haven from 1-5pm
4th Sunday each month in the Hartford area from 1-5pm
For more information, contact Bill at (860) 951-4833, ext. 302

 

 

SUPPORT GROUP:

For HIV+ gay/bi men
Wednesdays at 7pm
For more information, contact Sandi at (860) 951-4833, ext 322.

 

MANA (Manchester Area Network on AIDS) Presents

Life Coping Skills for Individuals Living with HIV - all men and women.  Every Friday from 10:30-11:30am.  Luther Hall, 60 Church Street, Manchester.  

 

Individual mental health sessions at MANA by appointment only. From 10:00am to 2:00pm

 

Lunches every Thursday and Friday at MANA at 11:30 -12:15.

Individual Substance Abuse Counseling, Thursdays, 10:30am-2:30pm

Acupuncture every Thursday, 12 noon - 2:00pm

Monthly Bingo and food pantry.

 

For information on all events at MANA, call Mo Cacace at 646-6260, ext.16.

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Healthy Relationships

What is Healthy Relationships?

Healthy Relationships is a program for small groups of men and women living with HIV/AIDS.  Knowing that the lives of persons living with HIV/AIDS are stressful, the program aims to build coping skills to help reduce stress.  These skills involve:

Solving problems
Making decisions, and
Negotiating choices

Healthy Relationships is:

Interactive
Fun
Educational
Stress-reducing
A time to share information and experiences

 

Healthy Relationships is not:

Lectures
Classes
Forums
A 12-step program

 

When are the workshops?

Groups will meet for about 6 hours (9:00-4:00) for two days.  Lunch and snacks will be included and participants will receive a $50.00 gift card for completing both days.

 

October 24, 1pm-4pm and October 25, 9am-4pm at Connections  For more information call Kaye White at 951-4833, ext. 313.

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Street Smart

 

Street Smart is a multi-session, skills-building program to help runaway and homeless youth practice safer sexual behaviors and reduce substance use.  Sessions address improving youths’ social skills, assertiveness and coping through exercises on problem solving, identifying triggers and reducing harmful behaviors. Agency staff also provides individual counseling and a trip to a local community health provider.  The program particularly targets youth ages 11-18 and groups can be coed or same-sexed.

 

The group consists of eight two-hour group sessions; one individual counseling session; and a group field trip to a local community health resource.  While it is preferable that teens attend every session, the program is designed so that each session stands on its own.

 

Our group facilitator, Kaye, keeps the groups interactive, interesting, and informative by using various elements and techniques like role-plays, videotaping group exercises, HIV trivia, open discussions and demonstrations.

 

If you are interested in participating in a group or having the Street Smart program come to your facility or youth group, please contact Leigh Evans at 860-951-4833 or e-mail her at leev@aidsprojecthartford.org

 

You can find more information about the program on this website: http://www.effectiveinterventions.org/go/interventions/street-smart