Legal Name Of Organization
AIDS Service Center of Lower Manhattan, Inc.
Purpose Of Funds
ASC requests City Council member item support for its ASC’s Peer Educator Training and Services program to provide skills, opportunities, and services for active and recovering substance users, women, ex-offenders, and other at-risk, underserved subpopulations. With Member Item Support funding, ASC will be able to provide a full monetary stipend to an HIV+ Peer Educator ($420/month, $5,000/year) to provide an increased number of Council District 3 constituents with HIV counseling, testing and referral services (CTR), basic needs, such as onsite meals, food pantry, clothing room and hygiene kits, escorts and referrals to medical care, and access to a broad array of HIV prevention and support programs that promote health and prevent health risks associated with addiction, poverty, and homelessness.