AIDS Foundation of Chicago Awarded
HUD Grant to Keep People Housed

Nearly 200 chronically homeless people in Chicago with disabilities, including HIV/AIDS, will now be able to access permanent, supportive housing through AFC’s new Supportive Housing for Health Partnership, thanks to a renewable, two-year $4.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). READ MORE (PDF)

What's New in Care

• AFC releases Cook & Collar Counties Part B Services RFP
  

  Since 1991,  the Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center has led the Primary Care Consortia (PCC), which coordinates Part B ambulatory care services in Cook County.  Successful applicants in this RFP process will become members of the PCC, will attend planning meetings, and will participate in collaborative effort to strengthen linkage to care, data management, and progress toward other quality indicators. Representatives from the PCC will serve on the proposal review committee that identifies successful respondents.  AFC estimates that $350,000 will be made available in this funding cycle for direct ambulatory care services.

• AFC Implements New Continuum of Case Management
• AFC Releases New Five-Year Housing Plan
• New fact sheets on case management eligibility
• AFC leads nation's first housing partnership for chronically ill homeless
• CDC and HUD collaborate with AFC on Housing and Health study
• Perinatal initiative provides HIV-positive women with specialized support