Diaspora serves over 400 HIV infected families each year.
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Centre Medico Social Nord Alexis

Diaspora Community Services serves more than 400 HIV infected or affected families each year enabling medical care, treatment and housing. For 20 years this has been the cornerstone of our service to the Central Brooklyn community.

Case Management

We provide basic supportive services to HIV+ individuals and their families around issues of medical care, treatment, housing and nutritional needs. Case management has also been expanded to include other at-risk populations as well.

Women's Supportive Services (WSS)

  • The Women’s Supportive Services Program offers women living with HIV/AIDS supportive individual counseling that allows the women to address everyday issues/stressors, living with HIV/AIDS, self-esteem, and family dynamics while providing the women the tools to identify and utilize positive coping mechanisms in their lives.
  • The Women’s Supportive Services Program also offers supportive family counseling, support groups, crisis intervention services and counseling, advocacy work, structured community activities, and overall support and empowerment. The Women’s Supportive Services Program works diligently to provide HIV positive women with a positive holistic environment, and a supportive relationship that is conducive to their overall physical, mental, and spiritual health

Additional Supportive Services:

  • Medical Benefit Assistance
  • Referrals to high quality medical specialists

Among the primary programs and linkages we administer are:

  • Medical Benefits Assistance Program (HIV Uninsured Care Programs)**
  • AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP)
  • ADAP Plus (Primary Care)
  • HIV Home Care Program
  • ADAP Plus Insurance Continuation Program (APIC)

**The Uninsured Care Programs are required by law to provide information to our participants about our responsibility to keep information they send to us private and confidential. The "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" (HIPAA) of 1996 requires that we make this notice available. This notice describes the conditions under which we can share information with other people and for what reasons. This notice also tells our participants what their rights are under HIPAA. We are committed to keeping participant personal information private.

Contact
Jolene Bastas, Director of Case Management (718) 826.5666 or
Stephanie Friot, Program Coordinator Medical Benefits Program, (718) 399.0200 ex 228