Announcing the 2020 PoWER Leadership Cohort

A total of 10 organizations have been selected to participate in Emory COMPASS Coordinating Center’s PoWER Leadership cohort! The cohort will virtually convene for 4 months to connect, learn and implement their new knowledge through a project at their organization. The goal is to unleash infinite potential in leaders, and grow LEADERVATIONTM pathways toward Excellence.  This cohort consists of Champions seeking to synergize and optimize their leadership blueprint.  

2020 PoWER Leadership Cohort

2 Know is 2 Live
Bellaire, TX
The mission of 2 Know is 2 Live is to promote active, engaged, and empowered women and communities to address HIV disparity among Black women and women of color by focusing on education, advocacy, and healing through trauma informed care practices. 

Central Alabama Alliance, Resource & Advocacy Center
Wetumpka, AL
We lead positive health change in Alabama and empower communities through education, advocacy, and service.

Foundations for Living
Jefferson, GA
The mission of Foundations for Living is to lead positive health change in Alabama and empower communities through education, advocacy, and service.

Here’s to Life
Atlanta, GA
The mission of Here’s to Life, Inc. is to eradicate the suffering brought on by the substance use disorders in adults and youth in metropolitan Atlanta by providing individualized addiction and other behavioral health counseling services and education.

Love Inside for Everyone, Inc.
Jackson, MS
Love Inside for Everyone, Inc. is to meet the unmet needs of the communities we serve through collaboration, education, innovative health services and capacity building for the betterment of all people. 

Momentum Health Development
Houston, TX
Momentum Health is an innovative technology start-up that focuses on developing innovative healthcare solutions for low-income, uninsured communities.

Neighborhood Medical Center
Tallahassee, FL
Neighborhood Medical Center, Inc. (NMC) will provide high quality, comprehensive and compassionate healthcare. Neighborhood Medical Center is your home for healthcare, providing Primary Care, Mental Health, and Dental services to all of our patients, regardless of their ability to pay. We are the Big Bend area Federally Qualified Healthcare Center (FQHC) and a non-profit 501c3 organization. Neighborhood has all the care you need, right around the corner. 

Positive Assistance, Inc.
Orlando, FL
 Positive Assistance, Inc.’s mission is assisting and giving hope to anyone living with HIV or at risk of acquiring HIV.

Positive People Network
Miami Gardens, FL
 Positive People Network’s mission is to empower, strengthen and uplift the PLWHIV community of South Florida.  To change the quality of life of all PLWHA’s through social activities, medication adherence to have an undetectable viral load, emotional and spiritual support, mentoring, speakers bureau, empower individuals to practice safer sex, reducing all risk behaviors in correlation to contracting HIV.

The Normal Anomaly
Houston, TX
 The Normal Anomaly Initiative seeks to express narratives through multiple media formats that reduce stigma, build confidence and increase prevention and treatment amongst LGBT folx, those living with HIV and/or coping with mental health disorders.

Nov 30, 2018

COMPASS Initiative® Funds 32 Organizations to Transform the HIV Epidemic in the South

Atlanta, Georgia (November 30, 2018) – In recognition of the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day and in support of

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Jan 31, 2019

Q&A with COMPASS Coordinating Center Directors

Our first contributors need no introduction. Well-known in their respective fields, Patrick Sullivan, PhD, DVM, Nic Carlisle, JD, and Samira

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Feb 05, 2019

More than a Statistic. More than One Story.

Column By: Tiffany Smith Tiffany lives in Atlanta, GA and works with the Emory COMPASS Coordinating Center. She previously worked

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Mar 06, 2019

The Intersection of Faith and Wellness

Column By: Tiffany Smith Tiffany lives in Atlanta, GA and works with the Emory COMPASS Coordinating Center. She previously worked

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Apr 10, 2019

Announcing the University of Houston GCSW Shared Learning Partners

The SUSTAIN Wellbeing COMPASS Coordinating Center has selected 5 organizations to be a part of their first LEARN (Leading with Education, Advocacy

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