PARN - Your Community AIDS Resource Network

A community-based agency providing support and health promotion for people HIV-infected and HIV-affected. PARN provides education for people at risk for HIV and awareness of HIV/AIDS issues to the broader community.

PARN services include:

• Individual counseling, peer support and practical help in meeting the needs of people infected and affected (friends, partner, family) by HIV/AIDS.
• Opportunities for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS to meet together and share information about HIV related issues.
• Informative workshops and education programs delivered in the community on topics which include Harm Reduction, Heterosexism/Homophobia, Gender and Sex, Women, and Youth.
• Weekly on-site clinic services through partnership with the Positive Care Clinic, Lakeridge Health Corporation.
• Prevention – events, training and workshops.
• On-site food bank cupboard for people who access PARN services
• Free education materials and an extensive learning resource centre which features a large collection of HIV/AIDS information open to the general public, including books, videotapes and files.
• Harm Reduction and Needle Exchange Program available on site.

In partnership with Positive Care Clinic Lakeridge Health, HIV and Hep C Clinic services including testing, treatment and care with onsite HIV nurses, social workers, dietician pharmacist and access to infectious disease specialists.