Programming and Services

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The Programming and Services Series, 1983-1995, documents the educational programming and support services the LGHP provided primarily in the Durham-Chapel Hill area.

Major areas of programming and services documented in this series include:

Healthline -- The phone line staffed by volunteers serving callers looking for information on health issues or general lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender community information. This subseries includes volunteer and administrative records, meeting minutes, correspondence, and surveys returned by and evaluations of local health care providers (including hospital staffs, private physicians, psychotherapists, gynecologists, dentists, optometrists, massage therapists, and various other traditional and alternative medicine practitioners).

Lesbian health -- The bulk of the subseries documents the November 1992 Lesbian Health Conference in Chapel Hill organized by the LGHP, with programs, evaluations, notes, workshop proposals, correspondence, publicity materials, and handouts. The subseries also documents the efforts of the LGHP to establish a Lesbian Health Center and to educate lesbians and bisexual women about their particular risks for HIV and to provide them with safer sex guidelines.

Presentations -- This subseries includes notes, correspondence, schedules, evaluations, and reports documenting the presentations made by LGHP volunteers and staff to a wide variety of community and social groups, medical schools, civic organizations, and other audiences.

Reducing Our Risks -- Educational programming funded by the North Carolina state government aimed at reducing the rate of transmission of HIV among gay and bisexual men. This subseries includes the monthly and quarterly reports filed by the LGHP with the state, and the evaluations by state officials of the LGHP's efforts on this project. Also included are correspondence, evaluations, and administrative papers; and materials developed by the LGHP to educate gay and bisexual men about practices more and less likely to transmit HIV, and the programs the organization developed to distribute that information.

Support groups and workshops -- This subseries includes publicity, notes, and administrative papers related to the support groups and workshops on a broad range of lesbian, gay, and bisexual issues.

Surveys -- The LGHP conducted several community surveys to assess the current health concerns and needs of local lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals. This subseries documents those projects, including completed questionnaires, notes, and correspondence.

The AIDS Services Project-- The LGHP organized most of its AIDS-related programming and services under the aegis of The AIDS Services Project (TASP) in 1988, to distinguish that work from its lesbian- and gay-specific projects. The TASP subseries includes materials documenting its buddy program to provide direct emotional and material support to persons living with HIV/AIDS ( PWAs), its Living Positively program that aimed to empower PWAs, its emergency fund for PWAs in dire financial situations, and other HIV/AIDS-related projects. Those materials include correspondence, training manuals and handbooks, publicity materials, volunteer information, notes, reports, and materials distributed to program attendees. Some materials documenting the work of the Buddy program are closed until January 1, 2027 due to the sensitive nature of the information included; see Restricted Materials.

Volunteers (General) -- This subseries includes correspondence, training materials, volunteer job descriptions, volunteer applications, and other materials documenting the recruitment and supervision of LGHP volunteers. There is some overlap in materials between volunteers with TASP and with other LGHP programs and services. The volunteer applications are open but restricted until January 1, 2097 due to the sensitive nature of the information on the application forms.

Other information included in the Programming and Services Series includes phone logs, the papers of the Piedmont HIV Health Care Consortium, resource and bibliographic lists, committee notes, and materials documenting smaller programs. The phone logs record the telephone calls received by the LGHP, detailing the everyday work of the organization. The Piedmont HIV Health Care Consortium subseries includes the correspondence and administrative and financial paperwork of this regional case management program funded under the federal Ryan White HIV Care Act. The LGHP acted as the lead agency sponsoring and housing the Consortium for several years.

Arranged alphabetically.

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