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The Women's Collective offers free testing for HIV to anyone seeking to know their HIV status. Visit our HIV Prevention section to learn more.

Outreach and testing at TWC has resumed for September 2010. Check out our calendar.

Find testing sites around the nation as part of the Act Against AIDS campaign!

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Are you a woman living with HIV/AIDS?

If the answer is yes, The Women's Collective HIV Care Management program was created for you and your family. Our services are peer-based meaning that a woman living with HIV/AIDS is your partner in care and services. She provides information, referrals and, most importantly, support. She can understand how you are feeling emotionally, spiritually and physically. She knows what it is like to live in fear that someone will find out, to worry that you'll be rejected by those you love most, to struggle with how to tell your kids and to worry about the future. She knows what it is like to be on meds that make you sick. She knows what it is to force yourself out of bed to make sure the kids get to school even when you don't feel well. There is so much to living with HIV/AIDS and it can be overwhelming.Our HIV Care Management program provides women a "sisterhood" of support that can empower women to reclaim their lives, dignity and hope. You are the reason why The Women's Collective developed this program.

TWC provides all services free of charge.

Medical Case Management-Family Centered Services
 Our case management services are a part of a comprehensive family-centered program that provides peer support, creates connections between care seekers and caregivers, and promotes the participation and empowerment of women, their families, and members of their support network in developing care plans based on their self-defined needs. We accept, as well as provide, referrals for women, women and their children, to/from other programs that provide local primary medical care, support and mental health services for women with HIV/AIDS either currently not in a system of care or who need support to remain in a system of care. We provide services for women and their families that assists them in accessing respite care, childcare, housing, food, transportation services, etc. providing women with opportunities to take care of not only their own primary medical and psychosocial needs but also the needs of their children and other family members.

Prevention with Positives (PWP) Program
Enhancing the health and well being of women living with HIV/AIDS while reducing their risk through multiple interventions that include comprehensive risk counseling and services and the CDC effective behavioral intervention (EBI) Healthy Relationships. Find out more about the program here.

Coffee House Support Group
The Coffee House support group, ongoing for almost twenty years, provides a safe space for women living with HIV/AIDS to gather, share stroies and resources, and set a course for their lives through building sisterhood and enhancing their knowledge of treatment and care. Find out the details here.

Peer-Based Support and Skills-Building
We sponsor peer-based support and skills building groups. Our support group model is built upon shared peer leadership and mutual self-help. These services have been available since the inception of the organization in 1993. Currently care staff are providing the Health Connects program to support women and girls in accessing web-based information on general health, women's health and HIV/AIDS. Groups are open to all women and girls regardless of HIV serostatus.

Family Social Activities
TWC is committed to providing activities to support women and families in creating stronger social networks and offer an opportunity for women to appreciate activities that are not HIV-related but increase their sense of self and connection with others.

GED & Literacy Training
Women are offtered onsite support and training in thier efforts to increase their literacy and move towards completing high school degrees.

Community Kitchen & Pantry
Onsite women have access to a community kitchen with light meals and snacks which are made available to women, many of whom do not have access to or the resources for providing themselves three meals per day. Our Pantry provides women and families with basic groceries on an emergency basis.

The Tiffany Fund
The TWC Tiffany Fund is an emergency assistance program which provides rental, utilities, telephone, medical/dental care, medications, shelter and meets the basic needs of women living with HIV/AIDS and their families. The Tiffany Fund was established in 1998 in honor of Tiffany Nalls, daughter of our founder/executive director Pat Nalls, who lost her life to AIDS at the age of three. The Tiffany Fund helps women and their families to access crisis intervention services and provides direct and immediate financial assistance for emergency short-term needs while permanent support, often through entitlement programs, governmental programs or other means is secured. The Women’s Collective serves women living with HIV/AIDS and their families by processing Tiffany Fund emergency assistance applications in a respectful, confidential manner through a process that retains women’s dignity and addresses the complex emergency needs of families for which, often times, emergency financial assistance is not readily available.

 

 
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