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Project ABLE is a statewide coalition of AIDS service providers, advocates and people with HIV/AIDS. Since the early 1990's, Project ABLE has successfully increased state funding for HIV/AIDS by working effectively with several Governors and their respective Administrations, the Massachusetts Legislature, and through mobilization of a grassroot network of HIV/AIDS service providers, advocates, and people with HIV/AIDS
About Project ABLE
What is Project ABLE?
•AIDS Budget Legislative Effort
•A coalition to advocate for state funding to sustain HIV/AIDS treatment and social services, imperative to ensuring public funding is available to the statewide network of AIDS service organizations providing a continuum of care to clients and their families•A network of HIV/AIDS resources for prevention, treatment and social services
What does Project ABLE do?
•Protects the availability of services by connecting service providers and their clients directly to legislators
•Grows our network of allies with advocacy roles, creating a strong framework of well-informed and politically motivated organizations voicing the needs of their communities
•Secures and improves the community-based service network caring for 15,000 people living with HIV in Massachusetts for over 15 years.
What’s in the future?
•Project ABLE will continue statewide organizing efforts that bring together HIV/AIDS consumers, providers, and advocates to effectively educate their State Senate and House Representatives about the need to support the community-based HIV/AIDS service delivery network
•Project ABLE’s Advocacy Consultant will facilitate trainings for members to improve their community organizing skills in addition to the accessibility of their own HIV/AIDS services.
•Members will recruit HIV consumers, program administrators, and care providers to meet with their elected officials in person.
What is involved in the training?
•Prepares members to play key roles in the legislative and budgetary process•Facilitates development of member’s advocacy skills such as community organizing, contacting legislators, and use of the media to reach broader segments of the community•Incorporates current issues relevant to HIV/AIDS service delivery, including ethnic, cultural, and regional differences that affect access to services•Helps transform organizations from having to be passive recipients of public aid to being active partners with their elected officials•Creates a foundation in Massachusetts for community-level organizing and activism around public health issues.
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