Action Wellness

Programs: Case management programcase managers are professionals with degrees and expertise in social work, nursing, mental health, drug and alcohol addiction, the prison system, family and prenatal services, adolescents, transgender communities and the deaf and hard of hearing community. They offer confidential individualized care coordination and advocacy to hiv infected and other chronically ill individuals and their families requiring help with housing, substance abuse and mental health issues. They insure that clients and their families receive the highest level of care and benefits available through appropriate coordination with social service, medical entitlement and other related systems. Action wellness' home housing specialists provide practical and emotional support to hiv infected families. They establish consistent and ongoing relationships with families. They provide these services in clients' homes and the neighborhoods in which they live. Care outreach workers provide assistance to reengage clients who are lost to care. The buddy program is an integral part of our case management services. All clients who are assigned to a volunteer buddy are required to be receiving case management services. It is made up of over 200 men and women who provide emotional support, companionship and practical assistance to people with aids, hiv disease and other chronic illnesses. Also, the 340b pharmacy program has become an increasingly important part of the case management program.

housing program[a] housing counselingaction wellness provides assistance in locating safe, affordable housing and housing counseling services to people infected with hiv. [b] transitional housingaction wellness provides transitional housing in north philadelphia for homeless individuals and families living with hiv/aids. Supportive services are designed to help people living with hiv gain the skills necessary to build stable futures. In addition, scattered site housing subsidies are available to clients who qualify.

total outreach and preventionaction wellness provides education through a number of programs including community and workplace education, a speaker's bureau, monthly forums and production and distribution of educational literature. The organization's outreach specialists target teenagers, women, the transgender population, prisoners, injection drug users and other specific high-risk, hard-to-reach populations. Prevention case managers offer one-on-one counseling and support to people living with hiv or at high risk for hiv, helping them develop skills to practice safe behavior. Counseling and testing staff provide rapid hiv testing and counseling services at our offices and at community locations.