About
Care Resource
Our Mission Statement:
"Through
education, prevention, research, care & treatment,
and support services, Care Resource improves upon the health and
overall
quality of life of our diverse South Florida communities in need"
Community AIDS Resource, Inc.,
d.b.a. / CARE
RESOURCE is a 501[c](3)
non-profit, multi-cultural, community based
AIDS service organization rooted from the 1998 merger of Health Crisis
Network
(1983) and Community Research Initiative (1989). Care Resource is now
South
Florida’s oldest and largest HIV/AIDS service
organization serving clients in both Miami-Dade and Broward
Counties.
Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in South Florida and for 25 years, Care Resource has been dedicated to serving the women, children and men affected and infected by HIV/AIDS and to meeting the changing demographics of the epidemic. The former Health Crisis Network (HCN), founded in 1983 by a group of dedicated volunteers, focused on providing a response to the epidemic with crisis intervention, social support and educational programs. Community Research Initiative (CRI), founded in 1989 pioneered the implementation of community-based clinical trials through its network of physicians across Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. Virtually all of the popular anti-retroviral drugs widely used today have been studied by the agency through its clinical research program.
Since merging, the agency has expanded and new services have been added in response to the needs of the epidemic. In 1999 primary medical care was implemented, creating a system to rapidly and effectively triage those identified as HIV positive into a comprehensive system for medical care and supportive services. Today, clients have access at a “one-stop” location to primary medical care, clinical trials and research studies, information and referrals, case management, mental health and substance abuse counseling, temporary assistance to needy families (TANF), transportation vouchers, a food bank, home delivered meals and counseling and testing.
Furthermore, the agency’s many prevention and education programs go out into the community and engage populations at high risk, affected and/or infected by HIV/AIDS, by disseminating prevention information and connecting those in need to the health care system.
Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in South Florida and for 25 years, Care Resource has been dedicated to serving the women, children and men affected and infected by HIV/AIDS and to meeting the changing demographics of the epidemic. The former Health Crisis Network (HCN), founded in 1983 by a group of dedicated volunteers, focused on providing a response to the epidemic with crisis intervention, social support and educational programs. Community Research Initiative (CRI), founded in 1989 pioneered the implementation of community-based clinical trials through its network of physicians across Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. Virtually all of the popular anti-retroviral drugs widely used today have been studied by the agency through its clinical research program.
Since merging, the agency has expanded and new services have been added in response to the needs of the epidemic. In 1999 primary medical care was implemented, creating a system to rapidly and effectively triage those identified as HIV positive into a comprehensive system for medical care and supportive services. Today, clients have access at a “one-stop” location to primary medical care, clinical trials and research studies, information and referrals, case management, mental health and substance abuse counseling, temporary assistance to needy families (TANF), transportation vouchers, a food bank, home delivered meals and counseling and testing.
Furthermore, the agency’s many prevention and education programs go out into the community and engage populations at high risk, affected and/or infected by HIV/AIDS, by disseminating prevention information and connecting those in need to the health care system.
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