Connecticut Working Positive Project

The Connecticut Working Positive Project, a program of CARC which is generously sponsored by the NewAlliance Foundation, seeks to provide cross training between employment services and all types of AIDS service providers, so that working together they will be able to 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!

Our Goals:

• Increase the knowledge of case managers and service coordinators in AIDS housing and AIDS services organizations regarding employment for people with HIV/AIDS;
• Introduce AIDS housing and AIDS service providers to employment and vocational supports available in their communities thereby increasing the use of these systems by PLHA's;
• Increase the knowledge of Workforce Development providers regarding successful employment strategies for people with HIV/AIDS, substance use histories and mental illness in order to expand their capacity to effectively serve PLHA's, including those with multiple barriers to employment;
• Assist service providers from both sectors as they integrate services and supports for PLHA who wish to transition to work.