Breaking New Ground Developing Innovative AIDS Care Residences

BREAKING NEW GROUND: Developing Innovative AIDS Care Residences is a comprehensive guide for individuals & agencies, architects, planners & developers interested in building or renovating HIV/AIDS housing. The first book written on this topic, it is an essential resource in the complex process of HIV/AIDS housing development. Major topics covered include: community-based planning, building partnerships, creating an HIV/AIDS housing continuum, program planning, design, project management, community notification & siting, licensure, financing & fundraising, predevelopment, construction, start-up, operations & maintenance. The book also provides a succinct discussion of what AIDS is & ties personal care needs to specific design & program implications. Special sections summarize residential licensing options in the fifty states & federal programs which fund HIV/AIDS housing. The authors build upon their own experiences by including illustrative anecdotal information they collected from site visits of over eighty HIV/AIDS care residences across the U.S. & Puerto Rico. As Executive Director of AIDS Housing of Washington, Betsy Lieberman, MHSA, conceived, planned & developed Seattle's Bailey-Boushay House, the nation's first newly-constructed licensed skilled nursing facility & day health program for people with AIDS (PWAs). Co-author Donald Chamberlain, CPA, is a recognized leader in establishing a comprehensive continuum of HIV/AIDS housing in Washington State. Volume discounts from publisher; AIDS Housing of Washington. 2001 Western Avenue, Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98121. Tel. 206-448-5242.Lieberman, Betsy is the author of 'Breaking New Ground Developing Innovative AIDS Care Residences' with ISBN 9780963659507 and ISBN 0963659502.