We are NYCAHN, NOT NYCANT

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We are NYCAHN, NOT NYCANT

• Directors Report
• June 6, 2006

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NYC AIDS Housing Network

• The NYC AIDS Housing Network is a membership led
  organization bringing together homeless and
  formerly homeless people living with HIV/AIDS,
  AIDS service organizations and nonprofit housing
  providers
• Given that housing is a human right, it is our
  mission to empower low-income people living with
  HIV/AIDS to organize our community, including the
  nonprofits that serve us, to advocate for more
  and better housing and sound public policies for
  all New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS.
• NYCAHN brings together tenants housing
  providers, clients service organizations.
• Decisions are made at quarterly general
  membership meetings and weekly campaign meetings.
• We are governed by low-income people living with
  AIDS. Members should control this organization.
• NYCAHN has over 3,800 individual members, and has
  had 67 dues paying member organizations.
• NYCAHN has trained over 1,900 low-income people
  living with HIV/AIDS in community organizing and
  advocacy skills.
• NYCAHN has trained hundreds of staff members from
  nonprofit service organizations in community
  organizing and advocacy skills.

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Projects of NYCAHN

• HASA Human Rights Watch Tracking human rights
  violations at welfare centers that serve
  low-income people living with HIV/AIDS.
• POWER Academy (People living with HIV/AIDS
  Organizing for Welfare Equal Rights) our core
  leadership development course offers political
  education to low-income people living with
  HIV/AIDS and basic community organizing and
  advocacy skills. NYCAHN has trained over 1,900
  low-income people living with HIV/AIDS in
  community organizing and advocacy skills. NYCAHN
  has trained hundreds of staff members from
  nonprofit service organizations in community
  organizing and advocacy skills.
• Oral History Project Homeless PLWAs tell it
  like it is to be homeless and HIV on the streets
  of NYC. Form of participatory research, and
  human rights documentation. NYCAHN has produced
  a booklet of Oral Histories, is currently working
  on a video and has had our storyboards on
  display in City Hall.

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Projects of NYCAHN (cont.)

• Parolee Human Rights Project we track violations
  committed by parole officers in an effort to
  bring about systemic reform. In addition the
  project members organize to improve access to
  healthcare in prisons and access to housing upon
  release.
• Youth CAHN Once our members become recognized
  leaders, their family members want to get
  involved. Youth CAHN is training the next
  generation of leaders in the fight against AIDS.
• Building Community Project a weekly drop-in
  center (modeled on worker centers) which
  provide a place for our members to socialize,
  take showers, get assistance with their welfare
  case or finding housing and tenant organizing
  projects in buildings where 2 or more low-income
  people living with HIV/AIDS live. We house over
  150 homeless people living with AIDS each year.

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We Believe In Community Organizing

• Community Organizing is a set of basic principles
  that, when followed, allows your organization to
  grow, and allows more and more people to become
  activists on your issues. It is the how to of
  movement building.
• Community Organizing is not just outreach, not
  just forming a speakers bureau, not just
  engaging in direct action, or meeting with
  elected officials.
• Organizing acknowledges moves POWER from the
  hands of a few people into the hands of many.
• Organizing develops LEADERSHIP.
• Advocacy and activism should be components of
  organizing.
• Organizers work on campaigns, not issues.

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1998

• NYCAHN was formed as a project of the Supportive
  Housing Network of NY.
• Jennifer Flynn was hired as the Coordinator of
  this project.
• Jennifer worked at the McBurney YMCA in their
  AIDS Transitional Housing Project as a
  Re-Housing/Daily Living Specialist.
• McBurney was one of the original member
  organizations of NYCAHN.
• NYCAHN successfully advocated for an increase in
  the amount of money service providers could
  allocate towards administrative overhead.
• NYCAHN held first rally for housing on Election
  Day. Photo above.
• NYCAHN received first press in Westsider.
• NYCAHN began first AIDS Housing Organizing
  Advocacy Training Institute course. 15 people
  graduated.
• Jennifer created NYCAHN logo.

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1999

• NYCAHN began strategic planning process, which
  led to seperation from Supportive Housing Network
  of NY.
• Joe Bostic, Cliff Mosley, and J. Edward Shaw
  begin volunteering.
• Bailey House hires Ed Shaw as Organizer for
  NYCAHN.
• Joe Jennifer conduct our Organizing Advocacy
  Training.
• Joe Capestany is among 18 graduates and upon
  evaluation, rewrites our training course,
  creating POWER Academy!

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2000

• NYCAHN Board of Directors votes to become
  independent organization, hires Jennifer Flynn as
  Executive Director.
• NYCAHN has 2,000 in bank. Jennifer works
  voluntarily and secures office space on Broadway
  for only 700 per month.
• All office furniture and equipment are donated.
  Jennifer raises 150,000.
• Joe B. Joe C. begin working on stipend at
  NYCAHN.

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2000 continued

• Welfare reform tactic diversion is implemented
  at HASA, denying emergency housing. NYCAHN
  launches HASA Human Rights Campaign.
• Full-time Hunter School intern joins staff.

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2000 continued

• NYCAHN secures new office space.
• Creates weekly drop-in center
• Jennifer gets all office furniture donated,
  office is cleaned, floors are redone.

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2000 continued

• NYCAHN is lead organization in newly formed
  coalition called NYC Communities of Color
  HIV/AIDS Coalition.
• Coalition successfully wins 5 million for AIDS
  prevention, treatment Services in communities
  of color.
• Lead organization in Mayoral Accountability
  Session on HIV/AIDS.

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2001

• POWER Academy graduates 200th person.
• NYCAHN attends International AIDS Conference in
  Durban, South Africa conducts housing
  organizing training for HIV women outside of
  conference.
• Joe Bostic wins OSI Fellowship for Oral History
  Project.

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2002

• NYCAHN guarantees right to emergency housing
• Jennifer is selected as first US based focused
  US Human Rights Advocate for Columbia University
  Human Rights Advocates Fellowship
• Joe Capestany wins NYAC Vanguard Award
• Jennifer, Joe B., Joe C. win Union Square Award

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2003

• NYCAHN leads coalition for World AIDS Day Demo.
• NYCAHN convenes Still We Rise Coalition
• NYCAHN wins funding for 1200 units of housing for
  homeless people living with HIV/AIDS.
• NYCAHNs Parolee Human Rights Project, under
  leadership of Jennifer, gets Assembly to hold
  Harlem Hearing ( one in Albany) on prison
  healthcare legislation.
• NYCAHN leads campaign to save HASA and keep HIV
  NYers out of workfare.

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2004

• NYCAHN wins increased funding for homeless people
  living with HIV/AIDS, drug users and transgender
  individuals
• NYCAHN expands office space.
• NYCAHN creates Youth organizing project.
• NYCAHN leads 50,000 person Still We Rise march
  rally.
• NYCAHN leads AIDS march in DC
• Joe Capestany honored post-humously by Latino
  Commission on AIDS

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2005

• Through our advocacy, City Council passes three
  separate pieces of legislation, including right
  to permanent, medically appropriate housing for
  homeless people living with HIV/AIDS.
• Jennifer is selected as Community Health Leader
  by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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2006

• We are Conveners and Leaders in the following
  Coalitions
• UNGASS Action
• Housing Here and Now!
• NYC Continuum of Care Coalition
• Healthy Homes Steering Committee
• Coalition for Asthma Free Homes
• NYC Participatory Budgeting Initiative
• Legislative Action Coalition on Prison Healthcare
• NYC Communities of Color Coalition
• NY VOTE
• Alliance for Social Justice
• Campaign to End AIDS
• US Human Rights Network
• Received Awards from
• Harlem YMCA (Jennifer Flynn specifically)
• Marist College (Jennifer Flynn specifically)

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Kick Started and Helped

• CHAMP
• 218 Gates Ave. Tenant Association
• Amysyth Womens Program
• VOCAL

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