Last month, PWN-USA and the Women’s HIV Program (WHP) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) submitted a letter to the Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau (HRSA HAB), administrators of the federal Ryan White Program, recommending key National HIV/AIDS Strategy implementation steps to advance trauma-informed care. (Read the full text of PWN-USA and WHP’s letter to HRSA HAB here.)
50 organizations from around the country signed onto the letter in support of these requests for action to support implementing trauma-informed practices in clinics receiving federal Ryan White funding:
- 30 for 30 Campaign
- AIDS Foundation of Chicago
- AIDS United
- Albany Damien Center
- Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
- BABES
- Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center
- Black AIDS Institute
- Borinquen Behavioral Health
- Boulder Community Health
- Cascade AIDS Project
- Christie’s Place
- Colorado Organizations Responding to AIDS (CORA)
- Community AIDS Resource and Education Services of Southwest Michigan
- Counter Narrative Project
- Desiree Alliance
- Gran Varones
- Harlem United
- Hartford Commission on HIV/AIDS
- HIV Prevention Justice Alliance
- HIVE at UCSF
- IKnowAwareness
- International Community of Women Living with HIV, North America
- Iris House, Inc.
- Khulumani Support Group
- Legacy Community Health
- Let’s Kick ASS (AIDS Survivor Syndrome)
- Michigan Coalition for HIV Health and Safety
- National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD)
- National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, Inc.
- National Working Positive Coalition
- Pediatric AIDS Chicago Prevention Initiative
- Positive Iowans Taking Charge
- PWN-USA Colorado Chapter
- PWN-USA Louisiana Chapter
- PWN-USA Michigan Regional Chapter
- Ribbon Consulting Group
- RISE Multimedia
- Sex Worker’s Outreach Project
- SisterLove, Inc.
- Southern AIDS Coalition
- Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (“SASI”)
- Treat Me Right, Inc.
- Tripp Consulting
- US People Living with HIV Caucus
- Wayne State University Prevention Services
- Women with a Vision, Inc.
- The Women’s Collective
PWN-USA thanks all of these organizations for their help in emphasizing the importance of trauma-informed care in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and in holding HRSA HAB accountable for prioritizing it in the implementation steps.