Prevention
Case Management Program
Women in Crisis (WIC), part of Palladia's HIV Services Unit, provides
HIV/AIDS services as well as substance abuse prevention and outreach
services. These efforts are holistic in design and are geared to assist
high-risk populations—particularly minority women and their
families—in the areas of health, case management, substance
abuse and HIV/AIDS. WIC places particular emphasis on the relationships
between alcohol and drug use and the risk of HIV infection.
In keeping with its mission, WIC is committed to empowering men, women
and their families to implement risk-reducing behaviors and to understand
the full range of their options and choices in daily living. To this
end, WIC also provides its clients with support and information on
how to access a broad range of health and human services.
Rikers Island Transitional Consortium
The Rikers Island Transitional Consortium is a collaborative effort
that provides an array of comprehensive transitional case management
services to men and women with HIV/AIDS who are being released from
Rikers Island. The Consortium’s mission is to link clients
to needed community based services such as case management, medical
care, alcohol and other drug treatment, HIV education, housing,
mental health, and other needed services in order to enhance their
quality of life in the community.
Services
IWIC teaches clients to navigate the support service systems in
New York City and helps facilitate this process.
Through our Peer Education and Community Liaison staff, WIC conducts
HIV community outreach and prevention programs for inner city men,
women and their families in non-traditional settings within the
community.
WIC receives and helps clients with immediate crisis intervention
and/or direct requests for a variety of social services.
• Care Partners Support Group
• Crisis Intervention
• Domestic Violence
• HIV Pre/post Test Counseling
• Legal Advocacy
• Lesbian Support Group
• One-on-one Counseling
• Relapse Prevention Support Group
• Women in Recovery
• Women Who Are HIV Positive/AIDS Support Group
WIC uses a well developed, comprehensive data bank of referral sources
for off-site services from primary health care to medical services,
HIV testing, pre and post test counseling, TB, drug treatment programs
and services for women who are the victims of domestic violence.
WIC provides a variety of educational services through health fairs,
pamphlets and workshops. Information can be presented in both English
and Spanish.
Educational overview about the transmission, prevention, history
and testing of HIV/AIDS
Educational session to teach clients about sexually transmitted
diseases, nutrition, and pediatric AIDS, stress management, living
with HIV/AIDS, TB and STD’s.
Hepatitis Prevention
Riker’s Island Transitional
Case Management
• Program Placement, as Needed
• Legal Advocacy
• Supportive Services
• Linkages to Community-Based Support Organizations
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