Improving Access, Building Community Capacity and Promoting PHA Leadership.
New group graduated from ETSN Level 2 Training

New group graduated from ETSN Level 2 Training

On October 1-2, 2011, 16 participants and 11 trainers/peer facilitators spent an intensive training weekend at Kempenfelt to complete the first ever ETSN level 2 peer counselor training.  The participants came from graduates from 2 previous level 1 training series that occurred in the last year. Since its inception in...
Exciting News from the CAAT Research Front

Exciting News from the CAAT Research Front

Exciting CAAT news from the research front! This year CAAT has succeeded in getting our first CIHR CBR operational funding for our new research study CHAMP: “Community Champions HIV Advocates Mobilization Project”. The CHAMP study was developed as a strategic community-based action research initiative in response to the key findings...
Legacy Project's participants tell their stories!

Legacy Project’s participants tell their stories!

Members and service providers share their personal stories on mentorship. Legacy Project Newsletter:  Communiqué #1 - June 8 2011  
CAAT Receives CIHR Funding for CHAMP Research

CAAT Receives CIHR Funding for CHAMP Research

The CAAT research team has recently received CIHR funding for their innovative community based research study: CHAMPS: Community Champion HIV/AIDS Advocate Mobilization Study. We have now hired our project coordinator and recruited our team of culturally diverse peer research associates who are undergoing intensive training prior to the launch of...
CAAT Gets Equity Award from City of Toronto

CAAT Gets Equity Award from City of Toronto

In November 2009, CAAT received the Equity and Human Rights Award from the City of Toronto in recognition of our leadership in addressing mental health challenges faced by newcomer PHAs and our contribution in improving service access to services for people living with HIV/AIDS. CAAT Co-chairs, staff and community partners...
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CAAT Launches New Website

CAAT Launches New Website

We are very proud to present the new CAAT website at our 2011 Annual general Members’ Meeting.  This site will hopefully be a place where CAAT and our communities connect to keep updated about all the happenings at CAAT and to share our knowledge, experiences and stories. We are especially grateful to Vong Sundara, for...

CAAT Annual General Members Meeting

You are invited to join us at our 2011 Annual General Members Meeting on October 21st,2011 from 5-8 p.m. at the 519 Church Street Community Centre. This will be an exciting event as we will be launching our new website and our newly funded CIHR research study: the CHAMP project: “Community Champions HIV Advocate Mobilization...

Newcomer Sexual Health Promotion Project Funding Renewed!

We are excited that our Newcomer PHA Sexual Health Promotion Project, funded by the City of Toronto AIDS Prevention Community Investment Program, has our funding renewed for the year 2011-2012!. This project aims to improve the health of Newcomer PHAs and to reduce their vulnerability to HIV/STI and criminalization through peer-based outreach and education activities and...

Legacy Spotlight

Coming in November 2011 Please RSVP: legacy@hivimmigration.ca  for more information This is an annual event that offers all Legacy participants the opportunity to meet and greet each other, share their experiences and learn new mentoring and communication skills together.  
Derek Coordinator Legacy 2011

Derek Coordinator Legacy 2011

Legacy Project Launch at OHTN 2009 Conference

Legacy Project Launch at OHTN 2009 Conference

2009 CAAT Steering Committee and Staff Retreat

   

Innovative Legacy Project Launched

CAAT is excited to announce the launch of the Legacy Project: a program of structured mentorship support to promote collaboration, community succession and meaningful participation of PHAs.  We are grateful for the funding support from Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that made this project possible. This project aims to provide structured mentorship support to PHAs who have...

Mobilizing Ethnoracial Communities Against HIV Stigma

This CAAT research study aims to generate knowledge on how we can work effectively with faith-based, media and social justice allies within 5 ethno-racial communities (East and Southeast Asian, South Asian, African, Caribbean and Spanish Speaking) in the Greater Toronto Area to work together on HIV issues, in order to increase effectiveness of HIV prevention...
CAAT at IAC 2008

CAAT at IAC 2008

By Maureen Owino, CAAT Program Coordinator The XVII International AIDS Conference (IAC) or AIDS 2008 was not one conference, but a dozen of them running simultaneously under the same huge umbrella. Exhibitions, satellites, global village presentations and affiliated events all had participants sharing and learning from each other on a wide range of issues –...

CAAT formalizes Governance Structure and elects new Steering Committee

In March 2007, in recognition of the important role that the Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment (CAAT) has been playing in facilitating service and treatment access for marginalized and newcomer PHAs, CAAT received operational funding from the AIDS Bureau of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. Since then CAAT has engaged in...

PAH Capacity Building Forum to advance best practice and improved coordination

The PHA Capacity Building Forum to advance best practice and improved coordination By Alan Li, M.D. Co-chair, CAAT The recent CAAT Research Study on “Improving Mental Health Service Access for Immigrant & Refugee PHAs”, the Living & Serving 2 Study on PHA Engagement in the Ontario AIDS Movement, as well as the Toronto HIV/AIDS Community...