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Community Based
Organization Model
Six of the Community Based Organization projects share, as a central theme, the goal of providing high-quality care for individuals with HIV who belong to groups that are traditionally underserved because of linguistic, cultural, racial, and economic barriers that prevent their full integration into the traditional hospital-based service system.
Each of these projects targeted one or more high-need groups that tend to be under-represented in HIV/AIDS services. The providers are psychosocial support organizations who link their clients to medical providers for general medical care and specialty HIV services. All linkages are "tight" ones, and psychosocial supports to the treatment are provided.
A number of the projects also had on-site medical "assistance" programs including an on-site nurse or physician's assistant (Larkin Street, PROTOTYPES, Well-Being Institute) or onsite physicians (CCHER) that supplemented the medical treatment received at the linked medical clinic.
Center
for Community Health, Education, and Research (CCHER)
The
Fortune Society
Larkin
Street Youth Center
Outreach,
Inc.
PROTOTYPES
WomensLink
Well-Being
Institute Women’s Intervention Program
The
CCHER Haitian Community AIDS Outreach Project was a culturally
competent psychosocial educational-counseling and case management
program that has addressed the emotional and educational needs of
HIV-positive Haitians in Boston.
The
Fortune Society delivered culturally and linguistically appropriate
services to symptomatic HIV-positive prisoners and ex-offenders.
LSYC
reduced barriers to care and assisted homeless street youth in
accessing psychosocial and medical services and provided a housing
facility for youth with advanced stages of HIV disease.
Outreach,
Inc. offered a wide array of comprehensive services to African
American substance abusers with HIV/AIDS residing in or around
housing developments and actively linked these clients to medical
care.
PROTOTYPES
WomensLink reduced barriers and increased access to care for women
living with HIV/AIDS through the provision of a comprehensive,
“seamless” continuum of care and services and tight linkages to
medical providers.
Through
comprehensive, community-based services coordinated by nurse case
managers, the Well-Being Institute reduced access barriers for
substance abusing, HIV-positive women with tight linkages to medical
providers to ensure services.
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