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"The Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention is a community-based, non-profit, charitable organization committed to providing health promotion, support, education and advocacy in a non-discriminatory manner for those who identify as South Asian living with and affected by HIV/AIDS."
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ASAAP'S 20TH YEAR FUNDRAISER
8th Annual Salaam/Peace Iftar 2010
Criminalization of HIV Trasmission
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The next ASAAP Volunteer Training will be held on Saturday Oct. 24, 2009 from 10:00-5:00 and Sunday Oct. 25, 2009 from 11:00-5:00 at the Centre for Women and Trans People at U of T which is in the North Borden Building, Room 100--- 563 Spadina Ave.  Join us to learn about all of the below and more, plus get to know some of the new team with whom you'll be volunteering, and meet the staff with whom you'll work the closest. Light breakfast, snacks and a lunch will be provided both days.  To volunteer, please contact Mohini at education@asaap.ca to set up an interview.  If you’ve been interviewed and wish to confirm your attendance or if you have questions about volunteering, please contact Ryan at volunteer@asaap.ca.
 
Volunteer Orientation Training ensures that all of ASAAP's volunteers have been provided with a consistent base of knowledge and skills and that you are adequately prepared for the volunteer work you will be doing. * Training consists of the following components:
 
Introduction to ASAAP
An overview of ASAAP: our history, mission & goals, programs & services and organizational structure. Review of volunteer policies and procedures.
 
HIV/AIDS 101
Examine attitudes, values and beliefs about HIV/AIDS. Understand the basics of HIV transmission, safer sex, harm reduction and HIV antibody testing.
 
Confidentiality
Become familiar with the concept of confidentiality. Develop personal confidentiality guidelines related to HIV/AIDS. Clarify comfort levels with ASAAP's confidentiality policy, recognize breaches of confidentiality and responses to those breaches. Examine & sign ASAAP's confidentiality policy.
 
Cultural Competency - HIV/AIDS in the context of South Asian Culture
Explore our cultural identities. Examine the impact our cultural identities have on our relationships with clients and colleagues. Introduction to the cultural competency model of service provision. Opportunities to identify, understand and challenge institutional and personal barriers to access.
 
Power, Privilege and Oppression - Sexism & Homophobia
Explore values, attitudes and beliefs about gender and homosexuality. Examine the effects of stereotyping and labeling. Identify sources of information about gender and homosexuality. Understand sexism and homophobia and the various ways in which they occur. Explore possible responses to incidents of sexism and homophobia. Examine how sexism and homophobia have, and continue to, gauge people's responses to HIV/AIDS.
 
Living with HIV/AIDS - Psycho-social and Treatment Issues
A South Asian living with HIV/AIDS will speak to you about his/her life experiences.
 
* Please call and speak with ASAAP staff to find out the dates of next upcoming Volunteer Orientation Training session.
 
 
 
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