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UCSF Volunteer HIV Test Counselor
ORGANIZATION: UCSF Alliance Health Project
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We are searching for community minded people who are interested in helping in the on-going and ever changing HIV/STI Prevention arena. We provide training and opportunity for certification through the San Francisco Dept. of Public Health to do HIV Prevention Test Counseling.
We are looking for people who can volunteer for various shifts, espcially late nights and weekends. We also do mobile testing on our van for special events, as well as street fairs (i.e., Dore, Folsom), as well as working with some of our local universities to educate and test their student population.
Our target audience for our service are populations who are most impacted, but also most underserved, which are currently the API (Asian Pacific Islander) MSM, Trans, and the African American communities. However, any one can do an HIV test, so you must be interested in working with a diverse group of people both in the agency as well as our clients.
We also offer non HIV Counselor Volunteer Opportunites. You can come and help us set up and break down our mobile testing operations at our outreach events, or you could come in and spend a couple hours putting together some harm reduction kits. We do have daily tasks that wouldn't necesarily require a weekley committment from you, and you would be doing a great service for not only us, but out community.
What do you need to bring? An open mind, willingness to help and a commitment to volunteer!!
1 Shift
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12:00 PM to 12:00 AM PST
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FULL
Shifts are weekdays between 12p-7p, and Weekends from 9am - 12am (depending on events)
More opportunities with UCSF Alliance Health Project
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About UCSF Alliance Health Project
Location:
1930 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, US
Mission Statement
The mission of the UCSF Alliance Heath Project is to support the mental health and wellness of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) and HIV-affected communities in constructing healthy and meaningful lives.
Description
The UCSF Alliance Health Project (AHP) offers LGBTQ-affirming mental health services, substance use counseling, and peer support to low-income members of the LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities. We also provide free HIV testing and STD screening at our services center and mobile test sites. Our support groups include a Queer Women’s Disability & Chronic Illness Group, a Transgender Support Group, and a New Positives Support Group. Additionally, individual psychotherapy services and ongoing psychiatric clinical care, including medication evaluation and monitoring, are available to low income, uninsured or underinsured San Francisco residents. AHP also provides culturally competent mental health crisis services to the LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities.
AHP has a long history of treating some of San Francisco’s most complex patients. Founded as the AIDS Health Project in 1984, our agency has treated dually- and triply-diagnosed patients since the 1980s--those at risk of HIV or living with HIV/AIDS who also struggle with mental health and/or substance use issues. AHP case managers also assist unstably housed or homeless LGBT or HIV-affected clients to find affordable, subsidized housing while clinical staff treat their mental health and substance abuse issues.
AHP has counseled and provided HIV-test results to more than 200,000 individuals and has trained more than 80,000 health care professionals, educators, and students. AHP currently provides direct services to nearly 6,500 clients annually.
Thanks to volunteers throughout our agency, AHP is able to serve twice as many people as we would otherwise be able to help. Volunteers enable AHP to deal with the pressures of restricted funding for services and provide AHP with invaluable energy and commitment. In addition, volunteers help us remain especially close to the communities we serve.
CAUSE AREAS
Advocacy & Human Rights,
Health & Medicine,
LGBTQ+
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
This opportunity has 1 shift
WHERE
1930 Market StreetMobile Van LocationsSan Francisco, CA 94102
(37.770496 ,-122.42569 )
DATE POSTED
November 15, 2024
SKILLS
- Administrative Support
- Multi-Tasking
- People Skills
- Fundraising
- Community Outreach
- Verbal / Written Communication
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Orientation or Training
- 1 year
- Certification from SFDPH (training provided), annual TB/Flu and proof of COVID vaccination