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Special
Projects and Services
Case Management Advocacy
Training:
Intensive two-day
training for HIV case managers using our comprehensive public benefits
advocacy manual.
HIV Housing
Advocacy Program:
Free legal services for people with HIV/AIDS
who are facing eviction or experiencing difficulty maintaining secure,
affordable housing. Training and materials on the housing rights of
people living with HIV/AIDS are available for social service and medical
providers in the five-county region.
Criminal Records Resolution Project:
Under the Federal Welfare Reform Act (FWRA) of 1996, people with
outstanding criminal warrants are banned from receiving Social Security
benefits. Because these benefits also provide links to Medical
Assistance, people covered by the ban are often also ineligible for
primary medical care, drug treatment and behavioral health services.
In response to the
FWRA, the
AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania launched its Criminal
Records Resolution Program (CRRP) to assist people living with
or risk of HIV/AIDS whose outstanding criminal records are keeping them
from these much-needed services.
If you are living with HIV and have an outstanding criminal record,
call the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania at 215-587-9377
weekdays between 9:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Medical/Legal Partnership.
The AIDS Law Project’s
Medical/Legal Partnership has a lawyer working closely with doctors
whose patients are seeking disability benefits or student loan
discharges. Together doctor and lawyer craft application language that
is both medically sound and responsive to the certification criteria of
insurers and government agencies. The advantages of this approach are
best shown by the fact that the Partnership’s client-patients are more
likely to be approved on a first application and less likely to need to
go through an appeals process.
Access to Healthcare Initiative.
The AIDS Law Project’s
Access to Healthcare Initiative is an exceptionally effective program
that makes a real difference in the lives of people with HIV/AIDS.
Fully 27 percent of the clients who come to the AIDS Law Project are
looking for some form of public or private health insurance as the road
to health care because with treatment this disease — once a short-term
death sentence — can be treated as another chronic, manageable
condition. The key is access to health care and medications. Through
this program, uninsured people with HIV/AIDS enroll in Medicaid,
Medicare, Social Security disability benefits and private insurance.
Accessing health care makes a real difference not just in the lives of
clients who continue working and raising their children but also in the
impact of the disease on the larger community. People with HIV/AIDS
whose conditions are stabilized through health care contribute more than
they cost society.
HIV
Policy Collaborative.
The AIDS Law Project is the convener of the HIV Policy
Collaborative, a 19-member consortium of AIDS service organizations
active in dozens of counties across the
Commonwealth
of
Pennsylvania
. Collaborative members work together to develop and recommend
medically-sound and legally-equitable policies for the management of the
HIV/AIDS epidemic and the treatment of people with HIV/AIDS.
AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania
1211 Chestnut Street, Suite 600
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone:
(215)587-9377 Fax: (215)
587-9902
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