Case managers strive to provide current information and consistent support to clients, partners, and loved ones.

Case Management services include:

• Education and information about HIV and transmission
• Assistance with applying for Social Security, disability, Medicaid, food stamps, and safe and permanent housing
• Referrals for medical and dental/oral care and treatment
• Referrals for legal assistance for advanced directives and wills
• Emergency housing and utility financial assistance for eligible persons

Support Service for People Living with HIV/AIDS:

• Transportation for medical appointments
• Mental health counseling
• Support groups
• Educational workshops
• Social and holiday events
• Food pantry and personal care items
• Referrals for clothing & furnishings
• Volunteer opportunities
• HIV educational materials
• Support and assistance with adherence to taking medications
• Tickets to local events and entertainment

Coalition Of Positive People Alliance (C.O.P.P.A.) is a peer-led HIV+ Men’s Confidential Support Group that meets with one another for positive reinforcement, encouragement, and cohesive support.

Free.

Healthy Relationships is a multisession, small-group, skills-building program for men and women living with HIV/AIDS. The program is designed to reduce participants’ stress related to safer sexual behaviors and disclosure of their serostatus to family, friends, and sex partners. The program is based on social cognitive theory, which states that people learn by observing others successfully practicing new behavior.

• Defining stress and reinforcing coping skills with HIV-positive people across three life areas:

• Disclosing to family and friends
• Disclosing to sex partners and
• Building healthier and safer relationships

• Using modeling, role-play, and feedback to teach and practice skills related to coping with stress.
• Teaching decision-making skills around the issue of disclosure of HIV status.
• We provide participants with personal feedback reports to motivate a change in risky behaviors and continuance of protective behaviors.
• We use popular movie clips to set up disclosure and risk-reduction scenarios to stimulate discussions and role-plays.

Click here for more information or to register.

Many Men, Many Voices (3MV) is a seven-session, group-level intervention developed to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among black men who have sex with men (MSM) who may or may not identify themselves as gay. The intervention addresses factors that influence the behavior of black MSM: cultural, social, and religious norms; interactions between HIV and other STDs; sexual relationship dynamics; and the social influences that racism and homophobia have on HIV risk behaviors.

• Enhance self-esteem related to racial identity and sexual behavior.
• Educate clients about HIV risk and sensitize them to personal risk.
• Educate clients about interactions between HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and sensitize them to personal risk.
• Develop risk reduction strategies.
• Build a menu of behavioral options for HIV and other STD risk reduction, including those that one can act on individuals and those that require partner involvement.
• Train in risk reduction behavioral skills.
• Enhance self-efficacy related to behavioral skills.
• Train in partner communication and negotiation.
• Provide social support and relapse prevention.

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Services are offered to individuals and families.  

The services are provided one-on-one and in group settings.  The client will work closely with the provider on a treatment plan and modality for long-term recovery and stability.

Free

Getting a client into treatment with a Doctor upon diagnosis is of the utmost importance and often, clients do not know how to navigate a system that requires a lot out of them. Our role is to set clients up with a doctor’s appointment and accompany them to their initial appointment, and further appointments if necessary.

In many instances, once a client has been linked to medical care, they do well to keep up with appointments on their own. Others need a little more help. In the Ryan White Part D Program, We follow clients for as long as 6 months.

Eligible members of the Part D program are either newly HIV+ diagnosed needing to be linked to doctor’s care for the first time, or people who have not seen a doctor in at least 6 months and wish to get Back to Care.

• Youth (male and female) between the ages of 13-24
• Women 25 years old and over
• Transgendered persons (male to female, or female to male), any age.

Anyone matching these requirements with a diagnosis of HIV+, please call: Sylvia Delossantos for assistance at 210.212.2266 (office) or 210.275.4071 (cell). You may also write to [email protected] to receive assistance.

Do you know your HIV Status?

Contact us for free and confidential testing today at 210-212-2266.

Click here to learn more about HIV and what is involved with an HIV test.

BEAT AIDS has opened its new San Antonio Care Center, where clients can receive more than HIV testing.

We are focused on your

• PrEP Care
• STI testing
• Treatment
• Medical Adherence.

Call or click here and scroll down to make an appointment.

Newly Empowered Women (N.E.W.), is a program of B.E.A.T. Coalition Trust designed to help women who are infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS begin renewed lives by overcoming the past. As they journey down their new road, our women will learn life long skills in order to develop and maintain healthy and productive lives.

Our Goals:

• Changing Behavior
• Decrease in high risk behavior
• Reuniting Families
• Eliminating drug and alcohol abuse
• Building economic and financial stability
• Developing computer literacy
• Increasing job readiness
• Cultivating a healthy image of one’s self

Our Residents:

• Women who are disproportionately infected and affected by HIV/AIDS
• Women who are in transition from homelessness, struggling with drug addiction or coming home from prison
• Women with the desire to live healthy, clean and sober lives
• Remain at our facility from 6 to 24 months.

This is an empowerment group for women infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS.

Join us for lunch with lots of HIV education and peer support. We do arts & crafts and listen to a wide variety of guest speakers on topics that help us grow. It is a lot of fun.

Meets at Newly Empowered Women,

618 Hudson St., San Antonio, TX 78202

Ph: 210.276.0129

There’s lots of fun to be had and lots of fun. Call 210.738.9644 or 210.269.7023 for information.

BEAT AIDS has opened its new San Antonio Care Center, where clients can receive more than HIV testing.

We are focused on your

• PrEP Care
• STI testing
• Treatment
• Medical Adherence

Call or click here and scroll down to make an appointment.

Free

THE BEAT AIDS  volunteer program is a way for people to invest their skills, minds, and hearts to support the BEAT AIDS mission. Our volunteers have the power to increase public awareness about the health issues facing hard-to-reach populations. The skills and time volunteers contribute allow BEAT AIDS to free up its resources to meet better the needs of the clients and families we serve. Make a difference in the community! BEAT AIDS has community service, internship, and volunteer opportunities.

Click here for volunteer information and application.