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Beneficiaries Of The New Jersey Ride Against AIDS

The New Jersey Ride Against Aids has made the commitment to you and our beneficiaries that 100% of the pledge donations raised by riders and crew go directly to New Jersey charities helping to fight AIDS and support people suffering from AIDS/HIV disease in our state.

Each year, The New Jersey Ride Against AIDS selects a group of beneficiaries from among the many AIDS-related charities based in or serving New Jersey. We choose those whose services fit or organizations goals and values. We provide the funds without restrictions. The list of beneficiaries is subject to change at any time before the next Ride. The proportion of funds allotted to each is decided in the month before disbursement.


Center In Asbury Pk LogoThe Center In Asbury Park, Inc. is in the midst of its fifteenth year of serving people living with HIV/AIDS in Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Since 1992 our services have included the following:

Nutrition Programs

  • Meals to Go, frozen meals for those who have no ability to cook
  • Emergency food and hygiene bags
  • Monthly Sunday dinners
  • A hot lunch program Monday thru Friday.

Housing Assistance

  • Emergency Housing for the homeless
  • Participation in a county-wide Shelter Plus Care Committee to secure permanent, affordable housing
  • Rental Subsidies to assist people in maintaining their housing
  • Security payments for people securing new housing
  • Utility payments.

Other Assistance

  • Transportation Assistance through participation in a County bus pass program
  • Availability of a client phone to assist folks who do not have their own phones
  • Laundry vouchers
  • Pharmaceutical assistance

The Center is a volunteer based organization. In 2005 nearly 6000 volunteer hours were logged by a faithful group of about 60 volunteers who prepare and serve meals, assist clients with intake and maintain the food pantry.

In Fall 2006 we will open Center House, which will house 25 single adults in a supportive community. We will also have a new day center with a state-of-the-art kitchen, a relaxing courtyard and recreation and exercise room.

Click here to read a thank you letter from The Center in Asbury Park.

Broadway HouseBroadway House for Continuing Care, an affiliate of The University of Medicine andDentistry of New Jersey, is New Jersey's only specialized HIV/AIDS skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility. Serving 350 residents annually from across New Jersey, our 74-bed facility provides comprehensive post-acute medical and psychosocial services through a "one-stop shopping" model on a 24-hour/7-day per week basis through 154clinical and support staff. Effective primary medical care is complemented by a full continuum of services including case management, mental health and substance abuseindividual and group counseling, nutritional services and counseling, palliative care and pain management, pastoral care, complementary alternative therapies, social activities,and transportation. Broadway House has an established record of achieving measurable positive outcomes with the most challenging HIV/AIDS cases in NewJersey, with an increasing proportion of clients living longer with a chronic disease rather than dying.

Click here to read a thank you letter from the Broadway House for Continuing Care.

Access One, Inc.   South Jersey’s one stop resource center for those touched by HIV/AIDS. Access One is a non-profit AIDS service organization, founded in 1998 in an effort to provide freemedical, dental care and social services to people living with HIV/AIDS the Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland County areas. Access One is a caring and compassionate,multi-service organization dedicated to providing case management services and coordinating and arranging for the provision of primary and specialty medical and dentalcare services. Individuals who qualify for free services have no health insurance and cannot otherwise afford quality medical and dental care services. Access One iscommitted to providing accessible quality medical and dental services, education, counseling and advocacy to people living with HIV/AIDS.

Services provided through Access One include HIV specialty care, dental care,laboratory and diagnostic testing, nutritional counseling, medical management, access to clinical drug trials, support groups, patient education programs, peer companions,referrals and networking with other social services, transportation, community outreach/education, HIV information and referrals, case management, supportiveservices and holiday food baskets. Access One compassionately addresses the comprehensive needs of people living with HIV/AIDS. Access One is funded throughRyan White Titles I, II, and III, the United Way as well as through charitable contributions and donations.

HiTOPS (Health-Interested Teens' Own Program on Sexuality) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization located in Princeton, New Jersey whose mission is to promote adolescent health and well-being. Their goals are to help teens understand their sexuality, avoid unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, clarify their values and make responsible decisions regarding their sexual health.

As a teen health and education center committed to promoting adolescent health and well being, HiTOPS believes in the three R’s: Rights, Respect and Responsibility. Teenshave the right to balanced, accurate, realistic sexuality education and confidential, affordable sexual health services. When youth are treated with respect they in turn learnto show respect in their relationships. Young people can act responsibly, make the link between sexuality and values, and protect their own and their partner’s health. Societyowes young people the tools they need to act responsibly: information, services, and a secure stake in the future. This philosophy underlies all of HiTOPS’ services andprograms.

South Jersey AIDS Alliance (SJAA), is a board driven, fully incorporated, 501(C)(3) non profit human services organization dedicated to the provision of essential support services to People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWH) and their families in the three south easternmost counties of New Jersey; Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland. 

The agency was established in 1985 by a group of Atlantic City business people and private citizens who recognized and became concerned over the growing national HIV/AIDS epidemic. Thus, with few resources other than a desire to make a difference, these individuals founded an agency that would ultimately grow to be one of southern New Jersey’s oldest and largest AIDS Service Organizations (ASO). Today, with forty-five employees providing nearly twenty separate but integrated programs across a 1,300 square mile area encompassing three counties, SJAA stands as one of our state’s leaders in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

The agency currently serves around 1,800 people living with HIV/AIDS and/or at very high risk for HIV through a wide variety of care and treatment support services; prevention interventions and counseling and testing efforts each year.

The agency currently operates three primary support centers (one each in Atlantic City, Bridgeton and Wildwood) an intensive case management drop-in-center in Atlantic City, a prevention services center in Bridgeton, a prison discharge planning center in Millville and a satellite case management and HIV prevention services office in Vineland.

Finally, they are an agency that strongly values diversity. Thus our staff includes individuals from varied races, cultural backgrounds and, gender identifications, and life-styles. Bilingual, culturally sensitive staff members are available at every site.

Click here to read a thank you letter from the South Jersey AIDS Alliance.

 

Eric Johnson, the son of Bill and Ann Johnson of Morristown, New Jersey contracted AIDS and died of the disease in 1990. Luckily, Eric had the full support of his family - something that is not a reality for many persons with HIV/AIDS. Thus, The Eric Johnson House was designed for those people in need of housing, as well as supportive services, who are homeless as a result of, or adjunct to their HIV/AIDS status. The Eric Johnson House is a place for those who need a safe haven while trying to obtain the services and support necessary to regain control of their lives. The Eric Johnson House is neither a hospice nor a medical facility, but rather a housing program which provides the security and dignity necessary to enable residents to become empowered and thus able to make realistic decisions about their future.

Click here to read a letter from The Eric Johnson House.

 

The NAMES Project Foundation, Central New Jersey Chapter. The goal of the The NAMES Project Foundation, Central New Jersey Chapter is to use the AIDS Memorial Quilt as an educational tool to bring an end to HIV/AIDS. It provides a creative means for remembrance & inner healing through making a Panel, illustrates the enormity of AIDS, increases public awareness, and assists with HIV education. The NAMES Project helps raise money for community-based HIV/AIDS service organizations providing direct service. They are also sistering with NAMES Project South African-Western Cape to find a cure.

The primary purpose of the Family-Centered Care Network is to provide comprehensive, culturally sensitive, coordinated care for women, children, youth, and families with HIVinfection. The Network offers HIV specialty care, outreach, counseling and testing, medical management, access to clinical drug trials, follow-up services, and family casemanagement.

The adult and family HIV program work closely together in order to provide unduplicatedcoordinated and comprehensive services to HIV infected and affected families. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the family HIV program provides or accesses a variety ofthe following services: medical, social, nutritional, psychological, subspecialty (GI, ID, HEM/ONC, Pulmonary, etc), case management, and logistical. As of April 2006, thefamily program is following 21 infected children under 13, 25 young adults 13-22 years of age, 18 HIV exposed infants, and approximately 35 siblings or at risk children arescreened every year. The adult program has an active caseload of 1104, 489 are women approximately 40% of the women are of childbearing age. The family HIVprogram has a family/women’s coordinator that follows these women including 2 pregnant HIV+ women. The coordinator provides counseling and testing to at riskindividuals (teens and adults). She also does outreach for HIV prevention to at risk individuals and links these individuals to appropriate care.

The New Jersey Women and AIDS Network (NJWAN) was founded in May 1988 out of the recognition that an independent voice was needed to express the needs of women in the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The mission of New Jersey Women and AIDS Network is to reduce the spread of HIV infection in women, support the self-determination of women living with HIV/AIDS to better access quality care and treatment, educate service providers, and advocate for appropriate policies in the women and AIDS pandemic.

 

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