HIV & AIDS Services at A Positive Place
What We Do
A Positive Place is a grassroots program working to build healing communities free from judgement and stigma and built on equity, connection, and empowerment.
For more than 30 years, A Positive Place has been a leader in integrating community health work that addresses social determinants of health with clinical care to prevent and treat HIV, Hepatitis C, and sexually transmitted infections. We provide testing, counseling and treatment for infectious diseases, gender-affirming health and social services navigation for transgender/nonbinary individuals, harm reduction and education for people who use drugs, and healthcare, housing and support services for people living with HIV.
Who We Are
We are a team of community health workers with lived experiences of homelessness, substance use, HIV, violence and trauma, incarceration and we identify as Latinx, white, black, queer and straight, cis and nonbinary, people with disabilities and people without.
We believe in meeting people where they are to support them on their individual life journeys and in eliminating structural injustices like racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia, income inequality, and ableism. These inequities serve to block people from thriving and reaching their full potential. At A Positive Place, we partner with you to create building blocks for a full, rich life.
Our Services
Harm Reduction
- Overdose prevention education
- Narcan distribution and training
- Recovery coaching and peer support
- Free safe smoking and safe injection supplies
- Syringe disposal
- Access to PrEP HIV prevention medication
- Transportation to services
Transgender Health Navigation
- Linkage to primary care and treatment for STIs, HCV, HIV
- Education and access to PrEP
- Insurance coverage and name and gender marker assistance
- Transportation to appointments
- Surgery education and navigation
- Local referrals to gender-affirming services, trauma and recovery groups
- Housing, benefits, employment support
Counseling and Testing
- Sexual health education and harm reduction
- Testing and linkage to treatment/care for HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) and Hepatitis C
- Assistance accessing health insurance
- Access to PrEP HIV medication
- Free safe sex supplies
- Peer support, outreach and home visits
HIV Medical Care and Social Services
- Linkage to a team that includes a infectious disease specialist, medical case manager and peer
- Disease education, medications and harm reduction practices
- Safe sex and drug use supplies
- Access to PrEP for partners
- Assistance with health insurance, medication coverage, and other state/federal benefits
- Access to specialized legal and dental assistance
- Housing search, advocacy, subsidized units
- Transportation to care/services
- Home delivered meals and emergency food assistance
A Positive Place offers services at our offices in downtown Northampton (Maplewood Shops), and in homes, doctor’s offices, hospitals and longer-term care facilities, cafes, encampments, parks, and other personal and social spaces as needed. We offer our services with an open-door policy, with compassion, not blame, and an open heart, not a closed mind.
Contact Us
Call us today at 413-586-8288. Can’t come to us? We’ll come to you.
