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How a smiling face & a listening ear make all the difference
Arleen came to Harlem United as a temp in 2006. For the past nine years, the front desk on the second floor of 306 Lenox Avenue has slowly become her “home.” Arleen knows how to hold down the fort and she does so with grace and her signature easy going attitude. In fact, she is…
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Community leaders & HIV-positive New Yorkers gather in a church basement to form what would become Harlem United
At the height of the initial wave of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the Upper Room AIDS Ministry (URAM) was founded in response to the community’s cries for help. Located first in the basement of a church, URAM provided for the very basic needs of those who were most affected by the epidemic. In addition to AIDS,…
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Adult Day Health Care opens at Harlem United
Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) licensure would extend medical interventions to disenfranchised clients. This was a bold move, as other agencies had passed on this opportunity, and it would prove to be successful.
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Harlem United co-founds Amida Care
We became a founding member and co-owner of Amida Care (then Vida Care), the only Medicaid special needs health plan owned by community based organizations, designed for persons living with HIV/AIDS in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.
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Country’s only Spanish-language Adult Day Health Care program for people living with HIV/AIDS opens
We opened the first (and only) Spanish-language Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) program to address the rapidly growing Latino population affected by HIV/AIDS. The program was called El Faro, which means The Lighthouse in Spanish.
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Health Home launches
A care management service model, Health Home, was introduced whereby the caregivers of a client communicate with one another ensuring their needs are addressed in a comprehensive manner.
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Getting happy at Pride
June capped off an exciting and event-packed LGBTQ Pride Month for Harlem United. Staff were on-hand at Harlem Pride, Brooklyn Pride, Queens Pride, and New York City Pride to provide rapid HIV testing to Pride-goers and to distribute information and resources for safer sex and HIV/STI prevention. The Harlem United family came out in full…
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White House visits Harlem United
Harlem United was honored to host Douglas Brooks, Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy. He visited to learn from our success and challenges to inform his work nationwide. While he was here, Mr. Brooks and his team met not only with senior staff who shared the details of our work–including housing as…
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