Chapter 7: Information Sources
Section 3: Specific Disabilities – Information Sources
Subsection: HIV and AIDS
AIDS Coalition of Tulsa (ACT) and Tulsa Community AIDS Partnership (TCAP)
Email:
918-582-5588ACT meets the second Tuesday of every month at 12:00pm at the Tulsa Area United Way.
Voice:
AIDS Legal Resource Project
Free legal representation for financially qualified individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Legal services for estate planning, insurance matters, debtor-creditor matters, family law, discrimination, and entitlement law.
Voice:
American Social Health Association
Email:
[email protected]ASHA specializes in communications outreach to the public, patients, press, providers, and policy makers by developing and delivering sensitive health information through many vehicles such as their websites, ashasexualhealth.org, iwannaknow.org (for teens and young adults), quierosaber.org (in Spanish), and nccc-online.org (site of the ASHA program, National Cervical Cancer Coalition).
Voice:
CarePoint Inc. of Oklahoma City
Information on HIV/AIDS. Case management, housing and utility assistance, nutritionist, mental health services, dental and eye care services, HIV employment program. Serves 405 and 580 area codes of the state.
Specializing in employment and retention services for individuals with HIV and AIDS.
Voice:
Toll Free:
Fax:
CarePoint, Inc. of Lawton
Case management, housing and utility assistance, nutrition services, mental health services, dental and eye care, HIV employment program.
Voice:
Fax:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
CDC is dedicated to protecting health & promoting quality of life through prevention and control of disease, injury, and disability.
TTY:
Toll Free:
National AIDS Fund
National resource for information.
Voice:
Fax:
National Minority AIDS Council
Email:
[email protected]National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) leads with race to urgently fight for health equity and racial justice to end the HIV epidemic in America.
Voice:
National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAAPC)
AIDS, HCV and STI programs for Native communities.
Norman HIV/AIDS Coalition
Ms. Devin McGhee, HIV/AIDS Coordinator
Meets on the fourth Monday of the month at 3:30pm
Cleveland County Chapter of the American Red Cross
Voice:
Fax:
North Winds Living Center
Individualized care, accepting environment for HIV-positive persons.
Voice:
Fax:
Oklahoma Department of Health
The Oklahoma State Department of Health, through its system of local health services delivery, is ultimately responsible for protecting and improving the public's health status through strategies that focus on preventing disease. Four major service branches, Community Health Services, Family Health Services, Disease and Prevention Services and Protective Health Services, provide technical support and administrative guidance to 70 county health departments.
- Community Health provides oversight and supervision to the various county health department across the state. Follow this link to Health Department's Community Health map of offices webpage.
- Family Health Services protects and promotes the health of Oklahoma's women, children and families by assessing health status, establishing evidence-based priorities and providing leadership to assure the availability of individual, family and population-based services. Programs include:
Office of Child Abuse Prevention 405-426-8041,
Children First Program - ,
Child Guidance Service (405) 271-4477 ,
Dental Health Service (405) 426-8460,
Maternal and Child Health Service - 405-426-8113,
Screening Services 580-726-3316,
SonnerStart ,
WIC (405) 426-8500, - Disease and Prevention Services monitors infectious diseases and illness and provides information. The areas of service include:
Acute Disease (405) 426-8710,
Chronic Disease, (405) 426-8300,
HIV/STD 405-426-8400,
Immunization ,
Injury Prevention (405) 426-8440,
Terrorism Preparedness and Response Service
Tobacco Use Prevention Service (918) 775-6201,
Public Health Laboratory - Protective Health Services provide regulatory oversight of the state's health care delivery service through a system of inspection, licensure and/or certification; several other trades and professions are also licensed. Services include:
Long Term Care
Medical Facilities Service - 405-426-8470 and
Consumer Health Service (405) 426-8250
Voice:
Toll Free:
Regional AIDS Interfaith Network (RAIN) - Oklahoma
RAIN Oklahoma is a 501 (c)(3) non profit organization providing HIV education, testing, housing assistance for individuals with HIV/AIDS, ADvantage Medicaid case management and Ryan White case management services throughout Central and Western Oklahoma.
Voice:
Toll Free:
Fax:
Spanish HIV/AIDS Hotline
Toll Free:
Tulsa C.A.R.E.S
Email:
[email protected]Their programs and services are tailored and focused on whole-person care and are aimed at achieving quality health outcomes for those living with HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C.