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I want to thank those who attended our monthly September Link meeting on the evening of Wednesday, September 10.

  
During our meeting, we discussed a number of volunteer opportunities for becoming involved with a wide range of activities.     
Among them included opportunities to join Cascade AIDS Project's, Pivot's, and Multnomah County Health Department's Client and Community Advisory Boards.  We also discussed volunteer opportunities for becoming involved with improving healthcare in Oregon. 
  
In this month's newsletter I am sending you information about these activities as well as providing you information about upcoming additional community events. 

  

I hope, in looking over the volunteer opportunities on this newsletter, you may consider becoming involved.  Based upon our discussion during September's Link meeting, each of you have amazing ideas and leadership skills.  Those ideas and that leadership can be put to action by becoming involved.  Simply stated, we need leaders like you. 

 

 

Best Always,  

Signature 
Benjamin Gerritz
Prevention with Positives Coordinator
Cascade AIDS Project
  
CAP's CAB Needs You
 
Interested in helping shape services provided at Cascade AIDS Project?
 
Cascade AIDS Project's (CAP's) Client Advisory Board (CAB) currently has openings and needs HIV+ individuals, leaders like you.
 
CAP's CAB is comprised of diverse individuals living with HIV.  Meetings are held on the second Tuesdays of each month at Cascade AIDS Project located at 208 SW 5th Ave.  #800 Portland, OR 97204 from 12pm to 1:30pm with lunch provided.  It is requested that interested individuals try to commit to serving on CAP's CAB for at least one year. 
 
If you're interested in this opportunity please contact my esteemed colleague Shyle or call 503.278.3844
 
Pivot's CAB Needs You
   
Help guide the direction of Pivot's programming!
  
Interested in becoming further involved with Pivot?
  
Pivot is seeking Community Advisory Board Members who can help steer Pivot and the programming that happens in the space.
   

This CAB is incredibly important to ensuring Pivot's programming is in alignment with the actual needs of gay, bi and trans communities. CAB members help prioritize issues and strategies for Pivot's community engagement, and act as ambassadors between Pivot and the communities most impacted by HIV.

 

Joining the Pivot CAB will only require a couple of hours each month. If you are interested, please use the ONLINE FORM

 

If you have questions about Pivot's CAB contact my incredible colleague Jaxon or call 503.278-3873.
 
MCHD Needs You
    
Multnomah County Health Department's HIV Services Council is seeking people living with HIV to join. 
 
A large focus of this Council is to advise MCHD on how best to allocate Ryan White funds.
  
For some background, Ryan White is our country's largest federally funded program that allocates funds to support people living with HIV.  The funding for CareAssist, for example, primarily comes from Ryan White. 
  
CareAssist is only one example though as Ryan White funds support a number of services including medical care services offered at Multnomah County Health Department to our local HIV+ community. 
  
To ensure Ryan White funding is supporting programs that are based on our HIV+ community needs, the MCHD CAB needs your voice.  
  
For information about this opportunity please visit the WEBSITE or call the amazing MCHD provider Margy at 503.988.8800.
 
Oregon's Healthcare Needs You
     
Oregon's heallthcare transformation is well under way and we need you to make sure all the overarching goals of Oregon's Triple Aim (see photo to the right) are accomplished.   
 
A big shift in Oregon's healthcare over the past couple of years has been the transformation of Medicaid into a system called Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs = HealthShare and FamilyCare). 
  
Whether you're covered by HealthShare, FamilyCare, or have another form of health coverage, there is a project underway called the Consumer Confidence Project which is seeking to help improve healthcare.  I am part of the Steering Committee for this project and we are in need of volunteers, leaders like you. 
  
This volunteer opportunity would require a time commitment on at least two of three upcoming Saturdays with lunch provided.
  
Session 1: Saturday, September 20, 2014 - 8am to 2pm
Location: Oregon Public Health Institute (310 SW 4th Ave., Suite 900 Portland, Oregon)
  
Session 2: Saturday, September 27, 2014 - 8am to 2pm
Location: Oregon Primary Care Association (310 SW 4th Ave., Suite 200 Portland, Oregon)
  
Session 3: Saturday, October 4, 2014 - 8am to 2pm
Location: Oregon Primary Care Association (310 SW 4th Ave., Suite 200 Portland, Oregon)  
  
If you're interested in volunteering please contact EMILY or feel free to ask me, BENJAMIN, any questions as well
  
In the Link
CAP's CAB Needs You
Pivot's CAB Needs You
MCHD's CAB Needs You
Oregon Healthcare Needs You
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October Programs
  
+alk (Poz Talk)
  
A 5 session program designed to discuss living with HIV and our relationships with incentives offered for completion.
  
New +alk starts monthly.  If interested in participating contact
  
 
October's Link
  
Our monthly October Link meeting will be on Wednesday, October 8 in Pivot located at 209 SW 4th Ave. at 6pm.
  
A suggestion was made by a Link participant to discuss our HIV treatments, managing side effects, and potential for a future function cure.
Please
  
Doc Talk October Dinner
  
We are fortunate to have the opportunity to host Dr. Lisa  Capaldini for a special dinner discussion at CAP which will be held on Tuesday, October 14 at 6pm in the Pine Rm. 
Please

  
Money, Money, Mondays
  
Starting this October, Cascade AIDS Project is partnering with Unitus Communty Credit Union to offer Money, Money, Mondays in the Client Services Center in Pivot. 
  
In addition to learning about finances, a meal will be provided courtesy of Unitus.  For more information  
please contact
  
Concientizate
  
A celebration for Latino arts, music, and culture at Refuge
116 SE Yamhill on Thursday, October 16 at 5:30pm.
  
More information on
  
Linked . . . In?
  
  
  
  
Community News
  
National HIV & Aging Awareness Day
  
By 2015, over half of the US HIV+ population will be over the age of 50.
  
Thursday, September 18 is a day to raise awareness about our aging HIV+ community and Jacki Gethner, an author and longtime activiist, is hosting two Portland events with readings from her book, Behind Door #3.
  
More information about these events can be found on
  
Let's Kick ASS PDX
  
Some of you may have participated in the nation's first national HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day this past Summer.
  
Did you know Portland has a social movement of long-term survivors which welcomes both people who have lived with HIV for many years as well as anyone who supports.
  
More information about Let's Kick ASS PDX can be found on the grassroots movement's
  
  
Fire In The Blood
  
One of the most powerful films about HIV is coming to Portland for a free screening at the First Unitarain Church located on SW 12th Ave. between Main and Salmon St.
  
The film will be shown on Thursday, October 16 at 6pm. 
  
Watch the