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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.
Our Criminal Records Resolution Program
(CRRP) assists people living with or at risk of HIV/AIDS whose
outstanding criminal records are keeping them from these much-needed
services.
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
Intake Hours: 9:30
am-1:00 pm
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