Our Programs

Financial Assistance

CARC assists families and individuals in the following areas: Obtaining and maintaining housing through the Housing Assistance Fund and the Emergency Housing Fund; meeting emergency expenses through the Client Assistance Fund; and transitioning to permanent housing through the AIDS Residential Housing Fund.

Advocacy - AIDS LIFE Campaign

The AIDS LIFE (Legislative Initiative and Funding Effort) Campaign is Connecticut's only statewide group that focuses solely on all of the policy-related issues impacting people living with and at high risk for HIV/AIDS - from prevention and education, including needle exchange; to supportive services; to health care, such as Medicaid and CADAP; to housing.

AIDS Consumer Empowerment Series (ACES)

The purpose of the ACES program is to provide current and emerging leaders within the HIV/AIDS community with the skills and knowledge needed to be effective speakers and advocates. The ACES program seeks to create a network that reflects and embraces the wide diversity of leadership within the AIDS community.

Case Management Training Institute

The Case Management Training Institute is a comprehensive training program designed for those individuals with case management responsibilities in AIDS services, AIDS housing, domestic violence, shelters and transitional living programs. All trainings can be counted towards CARC's Standards of Care requirement of 10 hours of case management training per year.

Employment - CT Working Positive Project

The Connecticut Working Positive Project seeks to provide cross training between employment services and all types of AIDS service providers, so that they can better assist persons living with AIDS who seek to (re)enter the workforce. Persons living with HIV/AIDS, even under the burden of personal and societal barriers, want to work. Our goal is to help them do that.

Prevention & Outreach Programs

AIDS and the Faith Community - CARC recognizes the social and cultural influence of Connecticut's faith communities, and works with places of worship throughout the state to develop ministries/special events promoting HIV/AIDS awareness.

Healthy Teens Connecticut - CARC has joined with advocates around the state to support legislation that would help ensure that Connecticut's young people have access to comprehensive, age-appropriate, medically accurate information.

Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)

CARC is a close partner with the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness in the quest to gather and maintain accurate information about homelessness in the state of Connecticut. We believe understanding what services have the most success in preventing and ending homelessness is essential to our work in advocating on behalf of those living with HIV/AIDS.