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Causes: Group Homes, Human Services, Victims Services
Mission: The mission of miracle of love, inc. Is to provide comprehensive, multicultural hiv/aids care, education and prevention services that are effective and responsive to the central florida communities.
Programs: Housing opportunities for persons with aids - miracle of love, inc. Is funded to provide housing services to clients that are infected with hiv/aids. This program offers a broad range of activities necessary to process and sustain eligible clients for assistance. Miracle of love, inc. 's housing supportive services includes clients enrollment and intake processing, eligibility assessment, assisting clients in gaining access to local, state and federal government benefits, assisting clients in obtaining affordable houisng and hud-required client reporting.
ryan white part a - miracle of love, inc. 's ryan white medical case management, non-medical case management and nutrition program assesses clients and family members' needs, to be a personal support system, to develop a comprehensive individualized service plan and to implement the plan. Clients are monitored to assess the efficacy of the plan with periodic re-evaluation and adaptation of the plan as necessary over the life of the client. Over the fiscal year, the program was able to serve approximately 450 clients.
high impact prevention (hip) is funded by the florida department of health. This program focuses on hiv prevention for positive individuals. There are two components of the program:a) healthy relationships which is a group level intervention for hiv positive individuals who have issues with disclosure of their hiv status to their partners or loved ones. B) business responds to aids project (brta). This program involves mol outreach workers asking businesses to make a one-year commitment to endorsement, support or participate in hiv aids awareness by keeping the mol project logo and materials visible at their businesses. Through their participation, businesses will agree to display the brta logo and printed materials; distribute project and point-of-purchase materials; and talk with customers and employees about hiv/aids. M'powerment project is funded under the florida department of health. The program targets gay and bisexual black and hispanic men who engage in high risk behaviors that place them at risk for hiv infection or transmission. Individuals are recruited by outreach efforts in order to educate them about hiv and their risk. The participants are asked to and encouraged to have conversations with their friends and acquaintances that are high risk and don't know their hiv status in order to get them tested. The number of clients served with peer serices was 40, 120 msm tested and over 1,500 reached for outreach services.
project aids care (pac) - miracle of love, inc. 's project aids care (pac) program is a program of home and community based services that are organized under the concept of case management. The purpose of the pac waiver is to promote, maintain and optimize the health of persons living with aids in order to prevent or delay instituionalization. Pac waiver provides home and community-based services to medicaid eligible persons with a documented diagnosis of aids that choose to live at home and in the community. The individual case manager will work with the client and the people that he or she identifies as significant in order to develop a plan of care that will address their specific needs. The case manager acts as an advocate, expediter, coach, problem solver and liaison with various vendors who may be called upon at some of the burdens of navigating the social and health care bureaucracies. Pac is a special enhancement of the florida medicaid program. All medicaid covered services must be made available to everyone who is medicaid eligible and the servers are provided only to people with aids and only in those areas of the state when an approved case management agency has been designated. The number of clients served was 220. Miracle of love's extended testing initiative (eti) began on september 30, 2009. This testing initiative is funded through the center for disease control and passed and managed/funding disbursed by the florida department of health. The overall goal of this program statewide is to test as many high risk african american and hispanic men and women who are unaware of their hiv status. Mol was charged with testing 200 individuals per month. Topwa: this is a service contract that provides outreach, education, and linkage for women of childbearing years focusing on the needs of hiv-infected pregnant women, known as the targeted outreach for pregnant women act(topwa) program. The purpose of the topwa program is to prevent substance abuse exposure of infants and the transmission of hiv to women and their unborn babies. The number of clients served was 338.