AIDS Community Awareness Project (ACAP)

Rick Wold

The AIDS Community Awareness Pro-
ject (ACAP), which has been serving the
Caledonia and Southern Essex county
area for five years as a volunteer non-
profit AIDS service organization, de-
cided at a recent meeting to incorporate
and elect officers and a board of di-
rectors. ACAP will continue to function
as a non-profit AIDS organization, of
which there are currently nine in the state
of Vermont. The officers elected were
Darlene Newpher, head of the local De-
partment of Health in St. Johnsbury as
President, Kathy Goslant, community ed-
ucator with Planned Parenthood of North-
ern New England as Vice President,
Anne Coulter, a community member as
Secretary, and Rick Wold, Program Di-
rector of WNKV-FM in St. Iohnsbury as
Treasurer. Other board members include:
Tonya Howard, Ellie Russell, the Rev. V.
Mitchell Hay, Marilyn Magnus, Marcia
Eliot, the Rev. Howard Boardman and
Travis Randall.

ACAP helps people in the Northeast
Kingdom with HIV/AIDS through sup-
port group meetings, individual support,
a buddy program, and non-medical case
management which includes help when
and if needed with transportation, in-
formation and referrals, with the Social
Security Administration and at home.
ACAP also is very involved with com-
munity education and will go to local
schools, church groups, service organiza-
tions, etc., to provide information on
I-IIV/AIDS. Vice President Kathy Goslant
said she is “delighted with the direction
that ACAP is taking to provide services
to people who are H1V+ and living with
AIDS in the Northeast Kingdom. One of
the hardest things People living with
AIDS experience is the isolation and the
need to talk to someone who under-
stands.”

A The two support groups that ACAP is af-

filiated with are completely safe and con-
fidential. The one for people with HIV/
AIDS is held on the second and fourth
Mondays of the month in St. Johnsbury.
The second, sponsored by the Northeast
Kingdom AIDS Coalition, is for family,
friends and loved ones of people with
AIDS is held on the second and fourth
Wednesdays of the month. For in-
formation about either support group call
Kathy at 748-8194 (days), or 748-3391
(evenings).

ACAP has recently contracted with two

people to run the support group meetings.
One is Marilyn McEnery, a local nurse

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practitioner who has a Masters in Social
Work. McEnery said, “The purpose of
the support group is to provide a place
where people who are I-IIV+ or living
with AIDS can come together. There is a
feeling of caring which helps decrease
isolation. It is a place where people can
feel free to express themselves con-
cerning the impact of this diagnosis and
life threatening illness on their lives.”
She can be contacted at 684-3698. Rob-
ert Wing, a local social worker, is co-
facilitator of the support groups.

By incorporating as a non-profit or-
ganization, ACAP is making a further
commitment to the community it serves
and will be making greater strides in
AIDS education throughout the North-

east Kingdom. Although ACAP has been
for years a non-profit organization deal-
ing primarily with education, it is now
able to focus more on direct service to
people in the community, especially
those with HIV/AIDS. As one HIV+ per-
son said, “You aren’t immune to this vi-
rus. Be careful, get educated and please
support those of us who are HIV+.”

Interested community members are al-
ways encouraged to come to meetings
held on the first Monday of every month
at Caledonia Home Health, to find out
how they can become involved. For
more information call 748-8116 (Cal-
edonia Home Health) or the Vermont
AIDS Hotline at 1-800-882-AIDS (1-
800—882-2437). V

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