How We Can Help

• Hospital social workers work with the case manager from the AIDS Service Center or Community Health Action of Staten Island to help you find the services you need, like housing, counseling or job placement.
  
  
• Health care team members work together and with you to provide information about treatment options, or who can help you when you have a health concern.
  
  
• When you take your child to see a pediatrician in the Bellevue Pediatrics Infectious Diseases Clinic, you can get your care in the same clinic at the same time.
  
  
• In the Bellevue and St. Vincent's Hospitals, New York, Pediatric/Adolescent Infectious Diseases Clinics, psychologists ensure that your children's emotional and learning needs are met.
  
  
• The clinic social worker is available to talk about any concerns you have -family issues, financial needs, how to talk to your children or other family members about HIV.
  
  
• You don't have to tell your story over and over again to many different providers.
  
  
• Participating in the LNYC Consumer Advisory Board helps you become an effective advocate for yourself and your family.
  
  
• Trained adult and youth peers are available to explain treatment and service options and to provide support.

"Everyone at ASC is treated with respect. We offer a variety of services, and people can take what they want and leave the rest. We've had homeless people come in who have received housing placement and counselors set people up with a home starter kit. We've had clients become tremendous poets. What we provide changes as the person's needs change. Clients are offered training to become Peer Educators. Many Peers participate in stipended internships, learning a skill, and giving back to their communities." -Sharen Duke, Executive Director, AIDS Service Center NYC.