{"id":1576,"date":"2020-01-09T21:05:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2020-01-09T21:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T21:05:51","slug":"desert-aids-project-removing-roadblocks-to-human-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/?p=1576","title":{"rendered":"Desert AIDS Project:  Removing Roadblocks to Human Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Desert AIDS Project:&nbsp; Removing Roadblocks to Human Potential<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Steven Henke<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Desert AIDS\nProject CEO, David Brinkman is expected to share DAP\u2019s vision for the future\nduring the event. \u201cDesert AIDS Project\u2019s story includes a long history of\nidentifying and responding to epidemics,\u201d he said.&nbsp; \u201cWe intend to pay forward what we\u2019ve learned during our\nfirst 35 years by reaching more people and changing more lives.&nbsp; We have and continue to be a\nhumanitarian organization which removes road-blocks to human potential.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last\ndecade alone has seen DAP make substantial in-roads in addressing epidemics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2010 2.7\nmillion people worldwide were newly infected with HIV in 2010. DAP begins the\ndecade focused on ending the epidemic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2012 Annette\nBloch donates $1 million to fund a cancer care center dedicated to specialized\nHIV-related cancer research, screenings, treatment and prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2014 DAP\nlaunches Get Tested Coachella Valley as the nation\u2019s first non-profit-led,\nregion-wide HIV testing, prevention, education and linkage to care initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015 DAP\nlaunches The DOCK, a walk-in clinic that provides HIV and Sexually Transmitted\nInfection (STI) testing, linkage to care and access to HIV preventative\nmedication Pre-Exposure Prohylaxis (PrEP) and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2016 The DAP\nHepatitis Center of Excellence opens to deliver comprehensive state-of-the-art\nexpertise to manage, support and cure those afflicted with Hepatitis C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017 DAP\nopens Transgender Health Program offering gender-affirming services and care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2018 DAP\nkicks off Vision 2020, a capital campaign which will result in the agency more\nthan doubling its ability to provide patient-centered primary, HIV Specialty,\nDental and Behavioral Health care to our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019 Desert\nAIDS Project celebrates 35 years of caring for our Community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How Desert AIDS Project Removes Roadblocks to\nHuman Potential:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Medical Care- 7,000 clients call DAP their\npatient centered medical home, and about half do not have HIV. In the earliest\ndays of the AIDS crisis, DAP discovered health outcomes for our HIV positive\nclients increased when we provided health care to their life partners and\nfamily members who were acting as caregivers.&nbsp; Today, DAP offers leading HIV specialty care as well as\nprimary care for our community members not living with HIV.&nbsp; Because there is enough love in this\nvalley to help everyone thrive and also prevent new cases of HIV.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Transgender Care- DAP is guiding more and\nmore transgender, intersex, and gender diverse clients on their gender journeys.\nIn a little over a year, DAP has seen its client enrollment quadruple for these\nservices. Too many transgender individuals in the Inland Empire assume they\nwon\u2019t ever access stigma-free and competent care. At DAP they never have to\nworry.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Hepatitis Center of Excellence- 202 clients\nhave been cured of Hepatitis C since 2017. DAP averages 9 weeks to cure\nclients, and never turns people away if they do not have insurance. HCV is a\nsilent killer, but DAP\u2019s advocacy is a lot louder.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Dental Care- Dental access is vital for good\nhealth, especially for people living with HIV. DAP\u2019s dental clinic had 5,354\nvisits last year, and continues to add clients. A healthy mouth helps clients\nstay ahead of HIV, and everyone smile wider.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The DOCK&#8211; $25 STI screening and treatment.\nFree Confidential HIV and HCV testing. PrEP and PEP navigators to onboard new\nclients and help access cost assistance. Because we won\u2019t stop the spread of\nHIV and STIs in the Coachella Valley if we don\u2019t make testing and treatment\navailable to everyone.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Behavioral HealthCare\u2014Psychiatrists,\nPsychologists and Psychotherapists. Coping with HIV and life can be\noverwhelming. DAP Behavioral Health clinicians help clients find hope. Because\nwith the right support, we can get through almost any storm.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Social Services \u2013Case managers make accessing\nhealthcare and support services a reality for DAP clients. Transportation,\nfood, housing, and enrolling for federal, state and local resources to cover\ncare. In a complex healthcare system, DAP takes the worry out of obtaining and\nkeeping care. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Housing &#8211; DAP helps clients into permanent\nresidences, and is developing more opportunities. Housing assistance is part of\nour prescription. Because access to medication is not enough to treat HIV\u2014it\nalso requires a place to live.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Back to Work\u2014DAP\u2019s back to work program has\nassisted over 200 clients re-enter the workforce when they were ready. This\nincludes computer access, resume coaching, and job placement. DAP helps clients\ndetermine readiness for employment, and supports them throughout the process.\nBecause having a job can be powerful medicine.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Client Wellness\u2014A range of services, classes\nand support groups make DAP a community hub. Chair massage, yoga, tai chi,\nacupuncture and reiki. Because the AIDS crisis taught us that holistic health\nworks. Strength training, art, sculpting and sewing classes. Because curiosity\nis healthy. Aging with HIV, addiction and recovery advocacy, and many other\nsupport groups. Because DAP understands that when a few people get together to\nsupport each other, an entire humanitarian movement can be born.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2020 Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards\nHonorees:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hank Plante<\/strong> <strong>Arts &amp; Activism Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henry A.\n&#8220;Hank&#8221; Plante is an American television reporter and newspaper\ncolumnist. He is on-air at NBC Palm Springs and he is a member of the Editorial\nBoard of Gannett&#8217;s Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs. Winner of the George\nFoster Peabody Award and multiple Emmys, he covered California for three\ndecades for TV stations in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He now writes\noccasional columns for newspapers in California, usually focusing on politics\nor gay and lesbian issues. One of the first openly gay TV reporters in the\nUnited States, Plante is the recipient of various honors from LGBTQ rights\nadvocacy organizations and trade groups. In addition, Plante was featured in\nthe documentary &#8220;5B&#8221; 5B (film), which was honored at the 2019 Cannes\nFilm Festival. The film is about the first AIDS ward in the nation, which\nPlante covered as a reporter. A native of Detroit, Plante worked in both radio\nand television journalism, including 25 years at KPIX-TV (CBS 5) in San\nFrancisco, before retiring in April 2010. Before that, he worked in print\njournalism, including at The Washington Post. At KPIX-TV, he interviewed a range\nof national and state political figures, including five U.S. Presidents and\nnumerous Governors, legislators and opinion makers from Richard Nixon to Al\nGore, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry\nBrown and Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His awards\nhave included several local and national Emmys, as well as the prestigious\nGeorge Foster Peabody Award, in 1986, as part of CBS 5&#8217;s &#8220;AIDS\nLifeline&#8221; reporting team. He has also been awarded the Pioneer Award at\nthe GLAAD Media Awards, and the James R. Harrison Award from the San Francisco\nAIDS Foundation. Hank was inducted into the Emmy Silver Circle by the National\nTelevision Academy, which honors individuals who have made a significant\ncontribution to broadcasting. In addition, The New York Times and other media\nhave singled out his work for praise. Plante was inducted into the LGBTQ\nJournalists Hall of Fame in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Garry Kief Partners for Life Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garry Kief\nis a former DAP Board Member and currently serves on the boards of the Barbara\nSinatra Children\u2019s Center, Palm Springs International Film Festival, McCallum\nTheatre, and the Annenberg Theatre Counsel. In addition, Kief has served as\nNational President and Chairman of the Trustees of his national fraternity \u2013\nSigma Phi Epsilon, raising money for programs and scholarships to support\nundergraduate men.&nbsp; Kief is\nPresident\/CEO at Stiletto Entertainment Group and President of Barry Manilow\nProductions.&nbsp; He has produced \u2018A\nGift of Love\u2019 for four years raising millions of dollars for local charities.\nKief also oversees the Manilow Music Project, which empowers underfunded school\nmusic programs to provide quality music education. By donating instruments and\nequipment and providing scholarships nationwide, it gives disadvantaged young\npeople the opportunity to experience community, passion, and creativity through\nthe gift of music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ambassador Deborah L Birx, M.D. Science &amp;\nMedicine Award <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador-at-Large,\nDeborah L. Birx, M.D., is the Coordinator of the United States Government\nActivities to Combat HIV\/AIDS and U.S. Special Representative for Global Health\nDiplomacy. Ambassador Birx is a world-renowned medical expert and leader in the\nfield of HIV\/AIDS. Her three-decade-long career has focused on HIV\/AIDS\nimmunology, vaccine research, and global health. As the U.S. Global AIDS\nCoordinator, Ambassador Birx oversees the implementation of the U.S.\nPresident\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the largest commitment by\nany nation to combat a single disease in history, as well as all U.S.\nGovernment engagement with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and\nMalaria. Serving as the U.S. Special Representative for Global Health\nDiplomacy, she aligns the U.S. Government\u2019s diplomacy with foreign assistance\nprograms that address global health challenges and accelerate progress toward\nachieving an AIDS-free generation; ending preventable child and maternal\ndeaths; and preventing, detecting, and responding to infectious disease\nthreats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Chase\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Steve\nChase Humanitarian Awards Gala headline performer, Kristin Chenoweth is a\npassionate supporter of charities that dedicate their time and efforts to\nhelping those in need. She formed a charity partnership with the Broken Arrow\nPerforming Arts Center (BAPAC) Foundation in her home state of Oklahoma.\nChenoweth&#8217;s accomplishments were honored by her hometown with BAPAC naming\n&#8220;The Kristin Chenoweth Theatre. The Emmy and Tony Award winning actress\nand singer Kristin Chenoweth\u2019s career spans film, television, voiceover and\nstage. In 2015, Chenoweth received a coveted star on The Hollywood Walk of\nFame. In 2009, she received an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a\nComedy Series for her role in \u201cPushing Daisies.\u201d In 1999, she won a Tony Award\nfor \u201cYou\u2019re A Good Man, Charlie Brown\u201d and she was also nominated for her\noriginal role of Glinda the Good Witch in \u201cWicked\u201d in 2004. Chenoweth has been\nnominated for two Emmy Awards and for a People\u2019s Choice Award for her role on\n\u201cGlee.\u201d Partnering with the BAPAC in a labor of love, Kristin launched an\nannual Broadway Bootcamp in 2015, providing young Broadway hopefuls with the\nopportunity to take classes, hold performances and learn from top mentors in\nthe entertainment industry including Kristin herself. In her lifelong mission\nto cultivate arts education across the globe, Chenoweth has also created\n\u201cPlaces! The Kristin Chenoweth Tour Experience,&#8221; a unique educational\nprogram for young singers that puts them right next to her performing on stage.\nEach concert in Chenoweth\u2019s ongoing tour will feature local participants from\nhigher education conservatories, universities, and colleges for the immersive\neducational experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chenoweth\nrecently released her latest album \u201cFor The Girls,\u201d debuting at #3 on the\nCurrent Pop Albums chart and #11 on the Billboard Top Albums chart. The album\nis a heartfelt tribute to the great female singers throughout history,\nparticularly some of Kristin\u2019s heroes and friends. Guest artists include Ariana\nGrande, Dolly Parton, Jennifer Hudson and Reba McEntire. The album includes\nChenoweth\u2019s personally charged interpretations of classic songs identified with\nsuch iconic artists as Barbra Streisand, Lesley Gore, Linda Ronstadt, Dinah\nWashington, Dolly Parton and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit\nwww.desertaidsproject.org, www.thedockclinic.org, and\nwww.gettestedcoachellavalley.org to learn more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to\nour 2020 Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards Sponsors <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Producing<\/strong>: Harold Matzner, Walgreens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Major:<\/strong>\nElgart Aster &amp; Paul Swerdlove, Desert Care Network, Desert Sun, Eisenhower\nHealth, Grace Helen Spearman Foundation, Living Out, LULU California Bistro<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Star:<\/strong>\nMark Adams, Steven Anders\/The Elizabeth Firth Wade Endowment, Annette Bloch,\nDesert Oasis Healthcare, NBC Palm Springs, Saks Fifth Avenue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Supporting<\/strong>: Blackbook, Jim Burba &amp; Bob Hayes, Diageo, Lynn Hammond,\nLauri &amp; Charles Kibby, Neil Lane Jewelers, Renaissance Palm Springs Hotel,\nUC Riverside School of Medicine, Wells Fargo Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Benefactor<\/strong>: Anthem Blue Cross, Carolyn &amp; Daniel Caldwell, Colleen\nCrowley &amp; Jack Martin, Coachella Valley Health Personnel, Diageo, Freehold\nCommunities, Gilead Sciences, Annette Guzman, Heffernan Insurance Brokers,\nImage360, Patrick Jordan, Kaiser Permanente Foundation, Frank Kurland,\nLaboratory Corporation of America, Perry McKay, Supervisor V. Manuel Perez,\nRevive Wellness, Ann Sheffer &amp; Bill Scheffler, Sysco Riverside, White Cross\nPharmacy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MEDIA<\/strong>: CV Independent, Gay Desert Guide, LOCALE Magazine, Palm Springs Life, PromoHomo.TV, Rage Monthly, The Hollywood Times, The Standard Magazine <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desert AIDS Project:&nbsp; Removing Roadblocks to Human Potential By Steven Henke Desert AIDS Project CEO, David Brinkman is expected to share DAP\u2019s vision for the future during the event. \u201cDesert AIDS Project\u2019s story includes a long history of identifying and responding to epidemics,\u201d he said.&nbsp; \u201cWe intend to pay forward what we\u2019ve learned during our first 35 years by reaching more people and changing more lives.&nbsp; We have and continue to be a humanitarian organization which removes road-blocks to human potential.\u201d The last decade alone has seen DAP make substantial in-roads in addressing epidemics. 2010 2.7 million people worldwide were newly infected with HIV in 2010. DAP begins the decade focused on ending the epidemic 2012 Annette Bloch donates $1 million to fund a cancer care center dedicated to specialized HIV-related cancer research, screenings, treatment and prevention. 2014 DAP launches Get Tested Coachella Valley as the nation\u2019s first non-profit-led, region-wide HIV testing, prevention, education and linkage to care initiative. 2015 DAP launches The DOCK, a walk-in clinic that provides HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) testing, linkage to care and access to HIV preventative medication Pre-Exposure Prohylaxis (PrEP) and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP). 2016 The DAP Hepatitis Center of Excellence opens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2214,2217,2218,18,2216,495,2215,2219,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}