But an innovative new collaboration between the HIV Services and Treatment Support Department of the S.F. AIDS Foundation and the San Francisco Department of Public Health was created to help. In the past year, the S.F. AIDS Foundation has begun producing a new, monthly publication to give the Foundation's clients the most recent news on a variety of topics relating to HIV-positive people. Given Champion Award Regina Arag n, the director of policy for the S.F. AIDS Foundation, was honored on October 28 at the 1999 UCSF AIDS Health Project Annual Gala with the organization's Champion Award. As varied as the activities they organize, the S.F. AIDS Foundation's Gay Life program staff are as likely to be found organizing the videotaping of a gay soap opera or leading a group tour of San Francisco's varied gay night life as they are to be in confidential counseling sessions, helping men grapple with the complexities in their lives. Every year, the California AIDS Hotline, run by the S.F. AIDS Foundation, gets over 110,000 calls.
Volunteers receive comprehensive training to prepare for crisis and referral counseling.
Hotline services are offered in English, Spanish and Filipino languages. New volunteers are always needed and the training sessions are offered four times a year. As the Face of AIDS Changes, So Does the S.F. AIDS Foundation Using focus groups, client surveys and community input to retool and strengthen services, education and prevention programs, the S.F. AIDS Foundation last year met the new challenges of the epidemic in a number of ways. Just ask the Housing team of the S.F. AIDS Foundation. They are currently weathering programmatic changes mandated by new city contracts that have challenged them to restructure themselves in a way that yields the most benefit to clients.