Chicago AIDS Service Organizations

AIDSCARE

• Provides housing and compassionate care to homeless men and women living with AIDS;
• Primarily serves Chicago-area persons with advanced AIDS who have exhausted their resources;
• Basic services:  housing, food, and access to full medical, counseling, education, and social services;
• On-site Community Wellness Center provides complimentary therapies, exercise, and meals 5 days a week to persons in the community living with HIV/AIDS;
• Serves as lead agency for AIDS Volunteer Education Consortium in training and education.

• Serves persons living in DuPage County who are disabled by AIDS;
• Operated by the Wheaton Franciscans on their campus;
• Provides 12 apartments, the first and only DuPage County housing facility for persons with AIDS;
• Facilitates link between resident and other programs and support services in DuPage County;
• Provides complimentary therapies for residents and people living with AIDS in the surrounding area.

• First agency in Chicago to respond to the supportive housing needs of persons with AIDS;
• Offers the city's most comprehensive housing program;
• Operates the state's first housing program for families with dependent children;
• Provides substance abuse/recovery support services, family and individual counseling, support groups and case management, and volunteer services;
• Since 1985, more than 900 men, women, and children have called the Chicago House.

• Located in Oak Park to provide supportive service to HIV+ residents of the west side;
• Direct services include case management, residential, nutrition, and transportation services;
• Cooperative work with other service agencies on advocacy and directional activities;
• Helps enable persons affected by HIV to live quality lives in their own homes and communities.

• Recognized as the leading private provider of HIV/AIDS services and the largest gay, lesbian, and bisexual health center in the Midwest;
• Conducts Employment Options Program, the nation's only clinically-based, back-to-work program for people with HIV/AIDS;
• Participates in global research studies, including the largest HIV/AIDS study in history and the world's first, large-scale HIV vaccine trial;
• Provides comprehensive medical care to clients regardless of ability to pay through a sliding-scale fee program.

• Runs 21 community health centers on Chicago south, southwest, west, and near north sides;
• Primarily serves the African American and Latino communities;
• 170,000 medical visits annually, including primary care for persons with HIV/AIDS;
• Provides HIV education and prevention to women of childbearing age, African American gay/bisexual men, African American sexually active men and active injection drug users.