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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. The Center in Asbury Park has been serving people living with HIV/AIDS in Monmouth and Ocean Counties since 1992. The Center's services include 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 at The Center in Asbury Park

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

  • A Wellness Program providing alternative remedies through acupuncture, massage, Reiki and Nutrition Education
  • 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 2006 over 7,000 volunteer hours were logged by a faithful group of over 60 volunteers who prepare and serve meals, assist clients with intake and maintain the food pantry.

Center House, a project of The Center in Asbury Park, provides permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless single adults living with HIV/AIDS. Each resident enjoys an efficiency apartment with a full kitchen and bath. In addition, The Center provides three meals per day for the residents in the resident dining room if they choose. A beautiful courtyard, 24/7 security, and case management all help support the Center House residents to stabilize their lives.

Broadway HouseBroadway House for Continuing Care, Broadway House for Continuing Care, an affiliate of The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, is New Jersey's only specialized HIV/AIDS skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility. Serving 250 residents annually from across New Jersey, our 78-bed facility provides comprehensive post-acute medical and psychosocial services through a "onestop shopping" model on a 24-hour/7-day per week basis through 159 clinical and support staff. Effective primary medical care is complemented by a full continuum of services including medical case management, mental health and substance abuse individual and group counseling, nutritional services and counseling, palliative care and pain management, pastoral care, complementary alternative therapies, therapeutic recreational and educational activities, and transportation. Broadway House has an established record of achieving measurable positive outcomes with the most challenging HIV/AIDS cases in New Jersey, with an increasing proportion of clients living longer with a chronic disease rather than dying.

Access One, Inc.   was established in 1998 in response to the widespread need for medical care and social services for individuals living with HIV/AIDS who had no health insurance and could not otherwise afford care and treatment. Access One is a caring and compassionate, multi-service AIDS organization dedicated to providing medical case management and coordinating and arranging for the provision of medical and dental care services for individuals infected by HIV/AIDS. Access One is committed to providing accessible quality medical and dental care, education, counseling and advocacy to those we serve.

Since our establishment, Access One has provided medical and dental care services to over 550 HIV positive patients. Services offered through Access One include but are not limited to: onsite primary Infectious Disease medical care, laboratory services, diagnostic testing, nutritional counseling, referrals to specialists for necessary consultations, procedures, evaluations, medical case management, supportive services, transportation referrals and bus tickets, community outreach, co-pay assistance, and support groups. These services are available to all persons living with HIV/AIDS in Atlantic, Cape May, and Cumberland Counties. Access One is a one-stop resource center that addresses issues unique to the population we serve.

Access One's services are free and available to individuals who have no health insurance and cannot otherwise afford comprehensive medical and dental care. Access One is made possible through grants from the United Way of Cape May County, the Cumberland County EMA (Ryan White Part A), the New Jersey Department of AIDS Prevention and Control (Ryan White Part B), UMDNJ partnership, New Jersey Ride Against AIDS, as well as donations and yearly fundraisers.

HiTOPS 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. Our 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. Teens have the right to balanced, accurate, realistic sexuality education and confidential, affordable sexual health services. When youth are treated with respect they in turn learn to 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. Society owes 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 and programs.

South Jersey AIDS Alliance (SJAA) is a caring and compassionate human services agency dedicated to the fight against HIV/AIDS. Accordingly, SJAA is a fully incorporated, 501(c)3 non profit agency offering essential support services to People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWH) and their families and prevention education and interventions to people at high risk for HIV 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 45 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 2,500 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.

SJAA operates three primary support centers (one each in Atlantic City, Vineland 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 satellite offices in three state prisons and one county jail.

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

 

The mission of The Eric Johnson House is to respond compassionately and responsibly to the HIV/AIDS crisis by providing supportive services, housing opportunities, prevention strategies and community education in New Jersey. The agency's work directly benefits the local community, through three core service areas:

  1. Residential;
  2. Community Case Management; and
  3. Education and Prevention.
The primary program of The Eric Johnson House is the Transitional Housing Program for persons with HIV/AIDS who are homeless due to their HIV status. The Transitional Housing Program of The Eric Johnson House, located in Morristown, provides housing and supportive services to individuals from New Jersey for up to a maximum of twenty-four months and assists in locating permanent housing. In order to ensure continued health and housing stability for these participants once they leave the Transitional Housing Program, they maintain involvement with The Eric Johnson House through our Community Case Management Program. The Community Case Management Program includes weekly phone contact and monthly home visits by the Case Management staff for a minimum of six months. Community Case Management participants are able to continue accessing services from the Substance Abuse Counselor and the Mental Health Counselor. Additionally, all participants are invited back to The Eric Johnson House monthly for dinner, food basket distribution, and a peer support group facilitated by the Case Manager.

It is the goal of The Eric Johnson House to become New Jersey's premier AIDS Service Organization (ASO).

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.

 

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

The adult and family HIV program work closely together in order to provide coordinated and comprehensive services to HIV infected and affected families. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the family HIV program provides a variety of the following services: medical, social, nutritional, psychological, subspecialty (GI, ID, HEM/ONC, Pulmonary, etc), case management, and logistical. As of April 2009, the family program is following 17 infected children under 13, 27 young adults 13-22 years of age, 26 HIV exposed infants. Approximately 40 siblings or at risk children are screened every year. The adult program has an active caseload of 1164, 491 are women approximately 40% of the women are of childbearing age. The family HIV program has a family/women?s coordinator that follows these women including 8 pregnant HIV+ women.

The New Jersey Women and AIDS Network (NJWAN) was founded in May 1988 to independently express and voice 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. Since its inception, NJWAN has been providing HIV education, prevention, advocacy, adherence and wellness programs to women who are infected or affected with HIV/AIDS. NJWAN annually serves approximately 2000 women living with HIV/AIDS and/or at risk for HIV. It does this through a wide array of programs such as:

  • Sister Connect and Sister Rise, where women learn how to manage their diagnosis and treatment regimen.
  • Sister's Village, NJWAN's health and wellness community which helps women develop a holistic sense of lifebalance and positive influence.
  • The Warmline NJWAN's telephone support service which is used by individuals to seek information, support services, case management and advice about how to live with HIV.
    • NJWAN was recently honored by the New Jersey General Assembly during their Women's History Month celebration.

 

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