Provides comprehensive services including education, prevention, and support for people living with, at risk of, or affected by HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted bloodborne infections, in addition to advocating for broader social change to reduce stigma.
Community & HIV Programs (Allocations): This program intends to help reach equity-seeking communities impacted with the drug poisoning crisis and HIV by providing information, education, and access to services through outreach and participating in community events.
Community Support Program (Allocations): Provides opportunities for the individuals being served at the Integrated Care Hub to engage in work at the site alongside staff, helping to improve connection and a sense of purpose. Funding is to support Honoraria for Community Support Workers.
Vocational Training Program (Allocations): Provides opportunity for people experiencing homelessness, who are accessing the Integrated Care Hub, to participate in job readiness training and then the vocational training.
Community Wellness Program (CIF): Capital grant to renovate and set up two wellness rooms for multi-purpose spaces that can be used for RMT/Reiki services, hair and foot care, as well as counselling and treatment rooms. The wellness rooms are intended for people living with HIV, people who live in poverty, people with complex mental health and substance use challenges, and 2SLGBTQ+ people, and other populations that often face barriers accessing services in a culturally competent way that honours their lived experience. As an STI/HIV testing site, these wellness rooms would also be used to increase access to STI/HIV testing as well as specialized transgender care.
Indigenous Programs (CIF): Programming to provide Indigenous people the opportunity to reconnect with their culture and teachings to motivate recovery, well-being and stability, in an environment free of stigma and discrimination. Focuses on marginalized community members who experience wide reaching historical and systemic discrimination, specifically designed to reach those whose lived experience is impacted by the intersection of substance use and Indigeneity in a way not seen in other services.
