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 & Resistance with our Neighbors) cohort! This shared learning opportunity focuses specifically on harm reduction in the context of the HIV epidemic of the Deep South through community building, education and capacity building.

2019 LEARN Partners: Harm Reduction Cohort

Advocacy House Services, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
Empowering Communities through Education, Training, & Advocacy.

Capital Area Reentry Program, Inc.
Baton Rouge, LA
Capital Area Reentry Program strives to provide individuals in the community living with or at risk of acquiring and/or transmitting HIV, substance use and/or mental health, school dropout, juvenile delinquency and other legal consequences, with the tools to empower themselves, to enhance their quality of life, reduce the risk of incarceration, reduce recidivism and the spread of HIV/STDs through therapeutic, educational, preventive and referral services.

The Knights and Orchids Society
Selma, AL
The Knights & Orchids Society (TKO) strives to build the power of the TLBG (transgender, lesbian, bisexual, gay) community for African Americans throughout Alabama’s to obtain our dream of justice and equality through group economics, education, leadership development, and organizing cultural Work.

Positive Assistance, Inc.
Orlando, FL
Assisting and giving hope to anyone living with HIV or at risk of acquiring HIV.

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 11, 2019

Working Together to #TransformTheSouth: An Overview of our 2019 TGP Meeting

We gathered in New Orleans, Louisiana with our 2019 Transformative Grant Partners (TGP) on February 20th -21st for our first

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