Tuesday, April 8, 2025
4/8/2025
Ryan White Title III HIV Capacity Development and Planning Grants - • Project Title: Ryan White HIV/AIDS Part C Capacity Development Program • Category: HIV Care Innovation: Gender-affirming care • Applicant Organization Name: Abounding Prosperity, Inc. • Address: 2311 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Dallas, TX 75215 • Project Director Name: Tamara Stephney, COO • Contact Phone Numbers: voice: (214) 421-4800 • E-Mail Address: tstephney@aboundingprosperity.org • Web Site Address: www.aboundingprosperity.org • Grant program funds requested: $150,000 for the one-year project period • Statutory preference requested: Underserved population Abounding Prosperity, Inc. (AP, Inc.) is proposing a project in the HIV Care Innovation category, Gender-affirming care activity, addressing Stigma and Discrimination. The proposed project will increase AP, Inc.’s capacity to deliver high-quality, effective, responsive, and affirming services to transgender and gender-diverse populations, ultimately increasing access to and retention in care services. Proposed activity: AP, Inc. will utilize the funding to develop and implement an educational training program for all agency staff as well as for providers at local community-based agencies that serve the target population. AP, Inc. offers HIV primary care and other HIV related services on-site and through its two health centers: the HOPE Health & Wellness Center and the Transparency Transgender Health Care Center. Impact: The proposed capacity building project will ensure AP, Inc. builds the capacity of agency staff to provide high quality services to better engage and retain transgender and gender-diverse populations, who are most at high risk for falling out of care. AP, Inc. will also offer stigma and discrimination training to partner agencies that provide services, such as substance use treatment, to AP, Inc.’s clients to further improve access to and retention in care. Population group(s) to be served: The target population that will be impacted by the proposed activity is transgender and gender diverse individuals, including Black and Latinx transgender women and other disproportionately impacted sub-populations in high-risk neighborhoods of Dallas County, TX.
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