World AIDS Day 2023 - Our East Bay HIV Timeline

1. Our East Bay HIV Timeline

2. Asian Health Services
What year was your organization
founded or what year was your
HIV program created (or both)?
What is a current program or
project at your organization that
you are most excited about?
What was one flagship
program/project/historical
moment that your organization is
known for?
What is one thing you love most
about working with your team?
Founded in 1974, Asian Health
Services (AHS) provides advocacy
and linguistic and cultural
competency for the Asian
American and Asian immigrant
communities accessing healthcare
in Alameda County. AHS started
seeing its first patient living with
HIV in 1993, and this is when our
HIV program began. Fun fact, this
patient is still our patient!
In 2020 the HIV program hired our
first staff from our patient
community, and since then we
have hired three additional former
patients. Providing these
opportunities has been of
enormous benefit to our HIV
program. To be able to learn from
our former patients, now leaders,
has been pivotal in the long-term
growth of our program, and we
could not be more humbled to
continue this practice alongside
traditional recruitment strategies.
We are very excited to continue to
expand our viral hepatitis services,
including case management for
patients seeking or on treatment
for hepatitis C and patients that
are treatment-eligible for hepatitis
B. Viral hepatitis disproportionately
impacts the Asian immigrant
population in the United States,
and it is a natural extension of our
HIV services.
The thing that I think everyone on
our HIV team loves most is the
team-environment. Our team is
truly like a little family. We all bring
so many different experiences that
we are coming from, and no one
hesitates to ask for help or
feedback on whatever project they
are working on or challenge they
are trying to overcome. Thank you
Alex, Eris, Victor, D’Yale, Cam,
Jason, Han, Chris, and Lexi!

3. Bay Area Community Health
What year was your organization
founded or what year was your
HIV program created (or both)?
What is a current program or
project at your organization that
you are most excited about?
What was one flagship
program/project/historical
moment that your organization is
known for?
What is one thing you love most
about working with your team?
Tri City was founded in 1970
and Foothill Community was
founded in 1996 in San Jose;
BACH was formed in spring
2020. BACH implemented one
of the first HIV Programs in
Alameda County in 1993
In 2003, we established
TransVision, a specialized clinic
devoted to providing
comprehensive, respectful and
culturally competent care to
transgender and LGB clients,
as well as patients seeking
Prep, PEP, or STI testing.
We are proud to be able to offer
an injectable program for HIV
Treatment and Prevention that
we hope will improve
compliance rates, patient
outcomes and satisfaction
The BACH HIV Prevention and
Care team share a passion for,
and dedication to the patients
we serve in an effort to improve
health outcomes and quality of
life.

4. CAL-PEP
What year was your organization
founded or what year was your
HIV program created (or both)?
What is a current program or
project at your organization that
you are most excited about?
What was one flagship
program/project/historical
moment that your organization is
known for?
What is one thing you love most
about working with your team?
CAL-PEP and its HIV program
was founded and started in
1984.
CAL-PEP is known as the
pioneer outreach agency
providing mobile HIV/STD
prevention and education, with
an intentional emphasis on sex
workers and substance users.
Taking our services into locations
that were overlooked such as,
crack houses, shooting galleries
and sex worker strolls during non
traditional hours.
CAL-PEP has expanded our
services to include a focus on
community mental wellness, SU
counseling, rapid housing
support and providing navigation
support to those experiencing
housing insecurities.
The CAL-PEP team has
demonstrated a level of
unwavering commitment to the
community. CAL-PEP has
employees who have remained
in this fight for well over 20
years.

5. Highland Hospital Adult Immunology Clinic
What year was your organization
founded or what year was your
HIV program created (or both)?
What is a current program or
project at your organization that
you are most excited about?
What was one flagship
program/project/historical
moment that your organization is
known for?
What is one thing you love most
about working with your team?
1984 Our injectable ART and
linkage programs
1996 campaign to build trust
among
Black/African-American
patients to consider taking
protease inhibitors
Big hearts, open arms
We care for patients and one
another.
We all have a diverse set of
skills and jump in wherever
needed.

7. Hope Solutions
What year was your organization
founded or what year was your
HIV program created (or both)?
What is a current program or
project at your organization that
you are most excited about?
What was one flagship
program/project/historical
moment that your organization is
known for?
What is one thing you love most
about working with your team?
Hope Solutions formerly known
as CCIH (Contra Costa
Interfaith Housing) began in
1997, the Homeless Task Force
of Lafayette-Orinda
Presbyterian Church alerted its
neighboring faith-based
communities to the growing
crisis of homelessness in
Contra Costa County,
A current project that Hope
Solutions is working on is
Housing Development. Efforts.
For Hope Village, which is to
create low cost affordable
homes in Walnut Creek
and Antioch. These are six
Cottages being built on land
owned by Churches.
Hope Solutions is the Heart of
Housing and Services . It is
known for Quality Permanent
Housing Solutions and other
programs that are geared
towards keeping families
together and housed
along with single adults in need
of housing. Permanent housing
and on-site support services
are the foundation on which our
residents can build self-
reliance.
The one thing that I love most
about working with my HOPWA
Team is that everyone has a
role and plays an important part
in making sure that those who
need homes are housed, those
who need to know about
resources in the Community
are provided with the
information and those who
need medical care are
receiving
treatment.

8. Kasier Permanente, East Bay
What year was your organization
founded or what year was your
HIV program created (or both)?
What is a current program or
project at your organization that
you are most excited about?
What was one flagship
program/project/historical
moment that your organization is
known for?
What is one thing you love most
about working with your team?
Our HIV Care & Prevention
Program (formerly the HIV
Consultation Clinic) was
established in 1990. The
program’s development
included input from an HIV
Patient Advocacy Committee.
The development and
implementation of “E-visits” to
provide members another
option to access PrEP care and
STI testing. An E-visit for nPEP
access is currently in
production.
Our Women’s Clinic:
Sharing Our United
Lives (SOUL Clinic) is a
specialized clinic that provides
ongoing medical and
gynecologic care to women
living with HIV.
I love working with a
multidisciplinary team of
physicians and staff who are
truly passionate about HIV care
and prevention. The team is
consistently open to new ideas
and approaches to best meet
the needs of our patients.

9. Oakland LGBTQ Center
What year was your organization
founded or what year was your
HIV program created (or both)?
What is a current program or
project at your organization that
you are most excited about?
What was one flagship
program/project/historical
moment that your organization is
known for?
What is one thing you love most
about working with your team?
The Center was founded in
2017. The clinic as a
program was established in
2020.
The Center is Oakland’s first
all-inclusive LGBTQ
Community Center
There are multiple projects
that we are excited about.
Hard to choose. 1. Youth
Club (new) Services, 2.
Elders Services.(new) 3.
Recovery Services (new)
LGBTQ+ Community and
the Glenn Burke clinic.

10. Somos Familia
What year was your organization
founded or what year was your
HIV program created (or both)?
What is a current program or
project at your organization that
you are most excited about?
What was one flagship
program/project/historical
moment that your organization is
known for?
What is one thing you love most
about working with your team?
We have been doing this work
since 2019. Our organization
Somos Familia was founded by
two moms from the East Bay
(San Francisco Bay Area) with
Latino gay and bisexual sons in
2007 to reach out to other
families.
We started the first trans
Latinx/Latine support group for
trans men in Spanish in 2019 in
Oakland, that we know off.
Gathering of Diverse Families
Conference. It will be a weekend
full of community, dialogue, and
training. We believe that Latine
families have the power to be
fierce advocates for the LGBTQ+
community and we want to share
our resources to create a safer
future.
That in reality we are a family,
the family many of us wished
we had, with healthy
communication, respect and we
care for each other as chosen
family.

11. Wellpath
What year was your organization
founded or what year was your
HIV program created (or both)?
What is a current program or
project at your organization that
you are most excited about?
What was one flagship
program/project/historical
moment that your organization is
known for?
What is one thing you love most
about working with your team?
Our organization
(CFMG/Wellpath) took over the
contract in 2016 and has
continued our commitments to
taking care of our
HIV/Transgender/HEPC
patients.
We are the second jail in the
nation and the only jail in
California to have an OTP
program. MAT falls under the
OTP program.
Assisting patients with
Medi-CAL enrollment prior to
their release date. We have an
HIV provider who focuses on
HIV/Transgender/Hep C
patients. Our team continues to
expand, working and
collaborating with ACSO and
AFBH re-entry services.
Working with incarcerated
individuals requires a special
type of character due to such a
vulnerable population. Our
team also enjoys our great
partnership with the HIV
community partners whom we
can call upon to assist with
patient’s needs.

13. WORLD
What year was your organization
founded or what year was your
HIV program created (or both)?
What is a current program or
project at your organization that
you are most excited about?
What was one flagship
program/project/historical
moment that your organization is
known for?
What is one thing you love most
about working with your team?
WORLD was founded in
1991.
Our flagship program is
our peer support
program for women
living with HIV or AIDS.
Our Latina Spanish speaking
support groups; our nutrition
program that provides free
groceries to the community
on Tuesdays and a free
fresh food market the third
Wednesday of every month.
What I love most about
working with my team is that
they have the ability to
collaborate and work
together across programs in
order to meet program
objectives.

19. Yvette Flunder Foundation
What year was your organization
founded or what year was your
HIV program created (or both)?
What is a current program or
project at your organization that
you are most excited about?
What was one flagship
program/project/historical
moment that your organization is
known for?
What is one thing you love most
about working with your team?
The Yvette A. Flunder
Foundation, Inc. (formally The
Ark of Refuge Inc) since
September 1992, in a
collaborative effort with The Allen
Temple AIDS Ministry.
We are now in Collaboration with
Sankofa Holistic Counseling
Services/Ntu Wellness to provide
Mental Health Services for our
clients and referrals. Our new
Food and Wellness Program
provides meals. And to decrease
the level of isolation in adults
over 45 who are living with HIV,
through Support and activities.
One in particular focused on
providing support for the
Children and Families of
Zimbabwe at The Mother of
Peace Community which serves
130 orphaned children and 700
adults Living with HIV and AIDS
were provided Medical Care
quarterly (until his untimely
death)
The Staff’s commitment to our
community - locally, and
Internationally and keeps us
hopeful that one day the fight will
be no more.