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Life Points Harm Reduction Outreach
Craig Miller
Harm Reduction Coordinator
MillerC@chagdetroit.org
- Reducing HIV among injecting drug users, their sexual partners and their children
- Providing sterile syringes, risk reduction counseling and drug treatment referrals
Mobile Advocacy
- Providing a direct link to care for individuals testing positive at any testing site
- Using staff who are like the target population
Medical Case Management and Non-medical Case Management (Advocacy)
Sue Hargrave
Case Management Supervisor
HargraveS@chagdetroit.org
- Supporting HIV positive clients in entering and remaining in medical care
- Providing assistance in accessing available resources for medical, legal, financial, support services, and basic needs
- Providing treatment adherence counseling
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Mental Health
Lisa Rigg Knysz, PsyD
Director of Outpatient Mental Health
KnyszL@chagdetroit.org
- Provides mental health treatment for HIV positive clients
- Serves families and couples
- Provides group therapy
Transportation
Dena Hughes
Continuum of Care Coordinator
HughesD@chagdetroit.org
- Transports HIV positive individuals to and from medical appointments
- Provides limited transportation to other support services and psychosocial groups
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Street Outreach/Health Education
- Engaging people using staff who are like the target population
- Providing health education and risk reduction counseling
- Conducting street and institutional outreach
- Identifying HIV risk and delivering test decision counseling
- Utilizing mobile vans to reach people at drug treatment facilities, soup kitchens, homeless shelters
Psychosocial Support
Dena Hughes
Continuum of Care Coordinator
HughesD@chagdetroit.org
The Family & Friends Support Group meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month from 5:30-8:00 p.m. at CHAG.
- Provides support groups for HIV positive individuals
- Improves group members' knowledge of HIV and healthy behaviors
- Includes a healthy meal and transportation
- Children's activity group for participants' children
Many Men, Many Voices
Greg McAllister, Group Facilitator
Email: McAllister@chagdetroit.org
- Providing group level, peer-facilitated HIV/STD prevention
- Serving gay/bisexual men of color
- Fostering positive self-identity, educating about HIV risks and teaching assertiveness skills
Counseling, Testing, and Referral
Lindsay Wright-El
Email: WrightELL@chagdetroit.org
- Providing free, anonymous, and confidential HIV antibody counseling, testing, and referral services
- Utilizing rapid testing technologies and oral testing
- Available in-house, at mobile outreach and Life Points' sites, and in institutional settings
- HIV Rapid Testing « click for information
Substance Abuse: Awaken to Change
Christina Fluker
Director of Clinical Services
FlukerC@chagdetroit.org
- Provides substance abuse treatment
- Utilizes a trauma specific/trauma informed model
- Offers gender specific interventions to achieve long-term recovery
Risk Reduction for Positives
Lisa Rigg Knysz, PsyD
Director of Outpatient Mental Health
KnyszL@chagdetroit.org
- Provides risk reduction counseling for HIV positive clients
- Helps them reduce the chances of transmitting HIV to others
- Uses both individual and group counseling sessions
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