Linkage to Care Team Partners with Adult Literacy Program

Alliance Linkage to Care Team went to the Adult Literacy Program in the Lower East Side on Saturday, June 4 to share resources about getting health insurance to 25 adults. It was the team’s third time sharing presentations explaining the NYC CARE Program to members of the Adult Literacy Program. Teachers on site helped with translation into languages including Spanish, Russian, and Chinese.

If need ned help finding an affordable public health plan, or want our team to present at a location near you, contact Marcia Deer, Associate Director, Linkage to Care at (646) 418-8568 /marcia@alliance.nyc.

Women's Wellness Day at CASA Washington Heights

The Women’s Wellness Day fair at Alliance CASA Washington Heights on Wednesday, May 25 was a smashing success. Over 70 new and existing program participants came to learn about services provided by Alliance and many other partners, including Assurance, Elite HHC, NYC Health + Hospitals, Avita Pharmacy, Ariva, African Services, and Select Health, which—among other services—provide quality housing referrals, free financial planning, mobile phones, health insurance information, blood pressure screenings, and at home Covid and HIV kits!

Of course Alliance on the Move was on site, and provided 22 Hep-C tests, 15 HIV tests, which Alliance LES Harm Reduction Center’s team provided 15 Narcan kits, 8 Fentanyl testing kits and 5 sniffing kits.

Dozens of women attending made beautiful tie dye shirts, received spa gifts, ate a fantastic barbecue lunch, and danced the afternoon away.

ONE Condom Outfits Alliance Outreach Teams with Safer Sex Products

ONE Condom recently outfitted Alliance’s Prevention Outreach Teams with their top of the line condoms and dozens of other products to serve to New Yorkers during outreach efforts. These efforts will be made with and without Captain Condom, Alliance’s non-gendered safer sex superhero. ONE Condom is the perfect partner for Alliance because theirs is also the first condom line approved by the FDA for anal sex. Their entire package of safer sex products that Alliance will give to New Yorkers includes:

Personal sized lube packets

Sample bags of 12 pack Mixed Pleasures

Condom holders

Beads and rings

Condom fit strips

Personal sized lip balms

Bins of different sized condoms

ONE is committed to helping everyone have better, healthier relationships. Making safer sex products and helping build a community in which people share knowledge, passion, and ideas is their manifesto.

Alliance Voices Poetry Reading

Alliance’s Creative Writing Program has been empowering program participants to share their stories through creative writing since 1999. We held our poetry reading celebration “Voices” on Tuesday in honor of National Poetry Month, featuring almost a dozen Alliance poets. The live event was broadcast over Zoom to over 40 viewers, including staff, Peers, poets’ family members, and members of the Zwickler family which has graciously sponsored the Creative Writing Program for over 15 years.