Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy (Oahas) - Barrie - Administration

Oahas staff will work with community members and families to access the basic needs for optimal health, including income, housing, food, employment and positive working conditions as well as providing safer sex and harm reduction supplies within the community.

SUPPORT SERVICES

  • Pre & post-test counselling

  • Health & HIV/AIDS treatment information & referrals

  • Support relating to HIV/AIDS discrimination issues, including referrals to legal supports

  • Assistance in accessing food, clothing and shelter

  • Assistance in obtaining and/or replacing identification

  • Access to traditional medicines & supports

  • Advocacy

  • Assistance to & from appointments

  • Family support

  • Grief counselling

Oahas mission is to provide culturally respectful and sensitive programs and strategies to respond to the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic among Aboriginal people in Ontario through promotion, prevention, long-term care, treatment and support initiatives consistent with harm reduction.

Oahas will continue to operate distinctly and in parallel with the vision, goals and objectives of the Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS and the Ontario HIV/AIDS Strategy.
  • HIV/AIDS
Services
  • Testing
  • Treatment
  • Counselling and Support
  • Harm Reduction
  • HIV Service Organizations
  • Sexual Health
  • Food and Practical Assistance
  • Legal Services
Hours

Eastern Time (GMT-4)

Languages
  • English
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