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Direct Client Services
AVOL’s Direct Client Services Program provides the assistance listed below to HIV positive persons in Central and Eastern Kentucky. This help is available when all other community resources have been exhausted.
- Rent Assistance
- Utilities
- Food
- Volunteer Caregivers
- Transportation
- Prescription Co-pays
- Personal and Household Items Referrals
- Substance Abuse Referrals
To find out more information about the Client Services Program,
call Ashley Hudson, Client Services Coordinator, at 859-225-3000
ext. 11, or email at avolashley@aol.com
To qualify for services, clients must undergo an annual recertification process to continue their eligibility for services, and provide the following:
- Verification of HIV/AIDS diagnosis
- A current application on file with AVOL
- Income verification through check stub or entitlement program award letter from the State and/or Federal program demonstrating financial need
- A current, signed, and dated lease agreement (for rental assistance)
- An original bill (for assistance with other expenses)
Financial assistance is subject to direct referral from a client’s HIV Care Coordinator and/or other verification of need and lack of other appropriate resources in the community to meet need.
Housing Services
Solomon House is a seven bedroom community residence for persons living with AIDS in the advanced stages of their illness. This program seeks to provide a home-like atmosphere and caring environment for each of the residents while meeting the individual daily living needs of each person. There is a nursing assistant on staff at all times, and a full-time house manager for case management oversees the program on site. Volunteers are available to provide transportation and companionship to the residents.
Contact Vincent VanFleet, Housing Program Coordinator, at 859-269-4044 or email
avolvincent@aol.com for further information.
Rainbow Apartments are transitional housing for those who are HIV positive and homeless or imminently homeless. The complex also includes a short-term unit for those traveling to Lexington for medical care who are in need of overnight lodging.
Rainbow stresses independent living. Its primary purpose is to help individuals stabilize their situation and transition back out into the community. Although there is no time limit for how long individuals may remain at the facility, most individuals are able to return back to the community at-large between six months and one year. The average stay at this facility is about four months.
If you are interested in the program at Rainbow Apartments,
please contact Vincent VanFleet, 859-225-3000 ext 13 or email
at avolvincent@aol.com.
Prevention Services
The AVOL Prevention Program conducts many outreach activities in order to stop the spread of the disease. HIV Prevention Specialists work to insure that everyone in the community has the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to prevent the spread of HIV.
If you are interested in scheduling an HIV Prevention Specialist
to conduct one of the following seminars, please call Mark
Johnson at 859-225-3000 ext. 19, or email him at 859-225-3000.
- HIV/AIDS 101 presentations
- Key Peer Opinion Leaders (KPOL) Outreach
- HIV Prevention Case Management
- Prevention Skills Trainings
- Public Sex Environment Outreach
- Risk Reduction Workshops and HIV Testing and Counseling
AVOL provides free, anonymous HIV testing at AVOL headquarters
every Monday and Wednesday night from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (no appointment
necessary). If you would like to schedule an appointment for
testing at another time, please contact Mark at 859-225-3000.
A variety of condoms are also available on site, at no charge.
The public is welcome to visit AVOL during office hours (9 a.m.
to 5 p.m.) to help themselves to these free supplies (condoms,
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