SAAF's Annual Impact Report FY20-21

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What’s Inside: Page 2: Letter from the Executive Committee

Page 6: Prevention Services in Review

Page 3: Portrait of a Client

Page 7: Financials

Page 4: Care Services in Review

Page 8: Volunteer Impact

Page 5: Youth Center Highlights

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CONNECTION Your Impact Report FY 2020-2021

“For many, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a time of reflection and prioritizing the things that matter. It has been a period of adjustment and change, so let it be for the better. HIV is tricky and can overwhelmingly impact one's mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. My hope for someone receiving an HIV diagnosis is that they see it as a starting point, and not an endpoint. It has certainly been the start of an important chapter for me. The joys, successes, and happiness of life await each of us, so let us embrace them!" — SAAF Client

A Letter from SAAF’s Executive Committee It was the holiday season before vaccines were widely available. SAAF’s usual holiday celebrations for clients with children had to be reimagined.

Instead of a festive gathering in our main conference room piled with presents and food, we delivered presents and large holiday meals to people’s home.

The past year was filled with moments like these: productive creativity and flexibility. Like everyone and every organization, SAAF had to reinvent nearly all its programming, client services, and events to help avoid the spread of COVID. SAAF’s main monthly food bank services changed to a drive-through pick up. Our case managers served clients over the phone. Our syringe access services changed its workflows to limit the number of clients inside our offices at the same time. Our group psychosocial sessions went to zoom.

I’d never even heard of the platforms our youth services team was using to engage our youngest clients and continue to build community!

SAAF held our first (and hopefully only) Virtual AIDSWalk, broadcasting our ribbon cutting to participants throughout our community. We reimagined our Out Brunch to a drive-in-movie-style Out Brunch After Dark, allowing folks to safely come together outdoors.

Through all this creativity and flexibility, SAAF’s Board of Directors was able to work with our staff, clients, and community to develop a bold, meaningful, and ambitious Strategic Plan that set the direction for community-based services for the years ahead.

We updated our mission statement to focus on the people we serve.

We developed new strategic priorities — including building an LGBTQ+-affirming clinical space and creating systemic change through advocacy that will meet the needs of an ever-growing community.

While the COVID-19 pandemic dominated so much of the past year, I’m proud to have joined SAAF at a time when we needed to and did step up to bring our community together and build strength through the height of uncertainty.

Gratefully, Executive Committee

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Portrait of a Client

CARE DEMOGRAPHICS Once again, SAAF provided services to the greatest number of people in its history, serving 1,522 people living with HIV/AIDS in Southern Arizona and their household members.

Of these, 124 were new clients to SAAF.

809

802

1,382

are considered low income

are living below poverty level

of clients who have a suppressed viral load (<200)

Age Summary:

Gender Summary:

1,257

22

Male

Transgender

2-12 years

25

385

812

300

13-24 years

25-44 years

45-64 years

65+ years

Veteran Status (Pima County)

Mental Health Conditions

1,380

16

No

Not Available

Risk Factor Summary

943

(Pima County)

243 Female

Race Summary:

30

37

No

American Indian or Alaskan Native

Not Available

126

600

Yes

Yes

11

Asian

195

African American

501

(Pima County)

Hispanic or Latino/a

1,075

6

Total men having sex with men (MSM)

Total perinatal transfer

1

2

Total hemaphilia

Total blood transfusion

256

335

Total intravenous drug use (IDU)

Total heterosexual contact

168

15

Total MSM & IDU

Total unreported

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Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

760

White (Not Hispanic)

29

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Care Services

Overview FY 2020-2021 The Care Services Department ensures that people living with HIV/AIDS have access to the services they need to maintain optimal health and live as independently and safely as possible. SAAF continues to provide case management, medical case management, housing, support services, and support to LGBTQ+ community members experiencing violence and harassment through our Anti-Violence Project. Care Services programs are grouped into three primary areas: case management, support services, and housing services.

CASE MANAGEMENT •

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Case Management provided needs assessments, the development of care and action plans, and provision of or referral to necessary services.

Case managers supported clients by linking them to medical care, behavioral health, substance abuse services, and other necessary social service programs.

Case Management and emergency shelter was provided through our Anti-Violence Project for LGBTQ+ survivors of violence.

These services include safety planning, goal planning, basic needs, emergency and transitional housing, advocacy, and support navigating the legal system.

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SUPPORT SERVICES •

Complementary Therapies

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Dental Services (provided statewide except for Maricopa and Pinal Counties)

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Food and Nutrition Services, including the Food for Life Program and the Food Pantry, Ensure distribution, Harvest Days, Emergency Meals

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Holiday Project

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Medical Benefits Management for those enrolled through the Affordable Care Act Federally Facilitated Marketplace (provided statewide)

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Medical Benefits cost sharing assistance for those enrolled in statewide ADAP program

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Support Groups

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Transportation Services

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Wellness and Buyers’ Club

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Hygiene/Cleaning Supplies

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Other personal support services

HOUSING SERVICES •

Emergency Shelter

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Transitional Housing

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Permanent Supportive Housing to People Living with HIV

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SAAF provided over 430 people (including households) with housing services to prevent homelessness, assist with rent/ mortgage/utility assistance, and sustain housing, using our Housing First Model approach.

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Prevention

Overview FY 2020-2021 The Prevention Department uses empowering harm reduction approaches to cultivate healthier communities. With passion, compassion, humility, and creativity, we make a difference. We create sex-positive, safer spaces, and provide culturally-responsive services that are client-centered. We embrace and respect our communities through a flexible, non-judgmental approach.

Never forgetting we are the communities we serve, we use our energy and expertise to foster social equity. We cultivate collaborative relationships to achieve comprehensive services. We are a team. We are supportive of each other -- fiercely advocating for and with our communities. We are not afraid to push buttons. We don’t wait for change. We initiate it! Prevent! Promote! Protect!

SAAF provided effective behavioral interventions, public health strategies and health education and risk-reduction activities that included outreach, individual-level interventions, grouplevel interventions, community-level interventions, health education/public information, and social media strategies.

Prevention programs conducted the following activities through the implementation of the above initiatives: • Over 1,000 individuals received one-onone support, risk-reduction counseling, syringe access services, and/or resource and referral services.

• Over 17,000 people were provided education, skills building, and/or training through the implementation of individual-level interventions, group-level interventions, community education workshops, social media messaging, and outreach services.

• Over 500,000 safer-sex materials were distributed during outreach, community education, and programmatic events.

HIV + HEP C TESTING HIV Counseling and Testing were provided by trained SAAF staff. Testing was available at SAAF, behavioral health agencies, local bars, UofA, and at community events throughout the year. Confidential HIV testing using 4thgeneration HIV rapid testing technologies was available. Last year approximately • 1,000 people received HIV rapid testing services at SAAF, Behavioral Health Agencies in Pinal County, community locations and at mobiletesting events. Hepatitis C rapid testing was also made available to people who inject drugs or have a history of injection drug use.

• 187 Hepatitis C rapid tests were conducted at SAAF and in collaboration with behavioral health organizations in Tucson.

ADULT PROGRAMS & OUTREACH PrEP Navigation Services • For people at risk of HIV transmission • Education and support • Readiness assessments, benefits coordination, and referrals to medical providers Syringe Access Program (SAP): Mondays and Wednesdays • Access to HIV and HEP C testing • Access to clean works, bleach kits • Hygiene items • Build relationships with staff and access to health-related information, including options for treatment

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YOUTH PROGRAMS • Youth Empowerment and LGBTQ+ Leadership (YELL): Substance Abuse education/reduction and Coalition Building • HIV Youth Peer Education (HYPE): HIV Education and peer support • Arizona Life Links for Youth (ALLY): Suicide Prevention, LGBTQ+ youth, arts initiative with the University of Arizona Museum of Art. • Lighthouse: Collaboration with SIROW and Our Family Services.

SAAF provided capacity building and technical assistance trainings for youth serving providers.

• Spectrum: Collaboration with SIROW and Devereux Behavioral Health. SAAF provides substance abuse and HIV prevention groups and individual Prevention Navigation services.

• Eon Youth Lounge: SAAF provides HIV Testing and HIV/STI prevention; education, support, and a safe space for LGBTQ+ youth

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Thornhill Lopez Center on 4th, a SAAF Space for Youth Thornhill Lopez Center on 4th (TLC4) is a safe, affirming space for youth ages 13 – 24, and who identify as LGBTQ+ and their allied peers.

Despite the shutdown our communities faced during 2020-2021, many of our youth still needed a place to find support and respite. Although, for safety reasons, we could not be open for the long hours we had before offering structured programming, we adapted and were able to have two hours a day, Monday thru Friday, to offer safety, support, and to meet their basic needs. We were able to distribute food, camping gear for those who were unsheltered, showers, laundry services, and just a place to be themselves. We also were able to distribute resources to those not able or uncomfortable with in-person activities through a once-a-week order and delivery program called HYP-On-Wheels. During this minimization of in-person services, Eon launched online programming available through a youth led Discord server creation and launch. Once implemented, staff took on virtual programming once a week to continue our service delivery for LGBTQ+ inclusive and affirming sexual health education, a trans and gender non-conforming support group, art workshops, and queer social justice movement history presentations.

This past year, the Thornhill Lopez Center on 4th provided LGBTQ+ and allied youth with:

0 public transit

1,117

752

171

4,777

151

was free

clothing items

nonperishable food items

hygiene items

hot meals

showers

21

loads of laundry

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SAAF Financials

FY 2020-2021 Grant & Contract Revenue: 86.37%

Revenue

Investment & Other Income: 1.92%

Grant & Contract Revenue . . . . . . . . 10,999,550

Tenant Rent Income: 2.43%

Community Based Revenues . . . . . . . . . 1,181,304 Tenant Rent Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309,748 Investment & Other Income . . . . . . . . . 244,524

Community-Based Revenues: 9.28% Total Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,735,126

Expenses

Client Services: 75.96% Administration: 10.64%

Client Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,260,833 Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,133,763 Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,297,023

Prevention: 9.30%

Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454,128 Community Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,004

Development: 3.72% Community Resources: 0.38%

Total Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,191,751

Non Operating Activities Change in Net Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,199,309

Loss on Asset Disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,328

Beginning Net Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,100,332

PPP Debt Forgiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883,887

Residual Receipts Distributed to HUD . 8,284,262

Charitable Land Contribution . . . . . . . . . 210,625

Ending Net Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,284,262

Total Non Operating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655,934

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Your Impact Report FY 2020-2021

Volunteers are All-Important: The Impact of SAAF Volunteers Through adaptability and determination, SAAF volunteers have not faltered in their ability to ensure that quality care and services continue to be provided to our clients. Comprised entirely of community members from all walks of life, we see Tucson reflected in our volunteers; in their resiliency, compassion, and unwavering sense of responsibility to show up on behalf of those in need of a helping hand or a gentle nudge in the right direction.

In 2021, volunteers were creative in their approaches to service and were quick to ensure that our highest impact services and programs were well-staffed

and tended to. SAAF’s Food for Life program was able to provide meals to clients throughout the year, directly addressing food insecurity in Tucson and meeting the most immediate needs of our clients. Volunteers were staffed in countless aspects of Care and Prevention Services, most notably within our Syringe Access Program.

SAP’s commitment to harm reduction is evident by their insistence upon remaining an open and accessible resource all throughout the pandemic, staffed with volunteers who not only give their time but also provide additional supplies to the 636 enrolled participants in the program.

In One Year...

123 Total number of Volunteers 2,772 Volunteer Hours $79,112.88

Value of Volunteer Hours