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Here it is! The official list of ACAS Pride Events! See the additional links for more information on each event! There's a ton of events going on around the city. Have a wonderful pride! Jun 15th ASIAN BATHHOUSE NIGHT at Spa Excess -featuring our Men's Team doing demos and outreach June 17th PRE-PRIDE PINK BBQ 4pm -for ACAS Support Program and OPA+ members (contact support@acas.org for more info) June 20th PRIDE PREP PARTY 6pm -Help ACAS get ready for the upcoming Pride Parada March https://www.facebook.com/events/272600593204187/ June 20th AIDS VIGIL at Barbara Hall Park 8:30pm -Remember and honour those lost to AIDS with musical performances and a candlelighting https://www.facebook.com/events/708133556021761/ June 22nd ASIANXPRESS -It's the AXToronto Pride Dance Party! https://www.facebook.com/events/1715399852086449/ #gaysianpride June 23rd TRANS MARCH 6:30pm -Join fellow ACASrs in the march for Trans rights and visibiltliy https://www.facebook.com/events/471401529863958/ June 24th QAY PRIDE STAGE 12pm -Support our Queer Asian Youth (QAY) in all their talent on the QAY Health Promo Present: QAY Pride Stage! https://www.facebook.com/events/1949992111903087/ June 24th DYKE MARCH 1pm -Join the women's march! https://www.facebook.com/events/1860963550809464/ June 25th PRIDE PARADE -The main event! Join ACAS and show the city some Asian PRIDE! Meeting at George Hislop Park 12:30pm March starts at 2! https://www.facebook.com/events/827451247412104/\ June 28th HUMPDAY SOCIAL 6pm -Pride may be over but come down calm down with the Men's Program and relax and socialize https://www.facebook.com/events/763351257171502/

A letter from our Executive Director regarding the TUHF funding cuts and it's drastic impact to ACAS' services and community.

April 17, 2017- After a 6 month internship in Thailand, Som Kong and Thompson Nguyen, the ACAS youth interns bid farewell to P. Yen and her team at Thai National AIDS Foundation. TNAF is currently promoting the "AIDS - Almost Zero Campaign". Brian Ly, our ACAS men' s program coordinator also visited TNAF that day! We welcome home our interns (eventually)!

Spring is upon us! At ACAS it's been a busy start to the new year. If you ever want to check out what has been going on at ACAS please check out our Facebook album Spring@ACAS 2017 for the recap of some of the ACAS happenings!

Asian PHA Resilience Dialogue Project Coordinator JOB POSTING We are looking a person who is passionate about serving their community to run an innovative pilot project titled: “Asian PHA Resilience Dialogues” (APHARD).  The project is a collaborative project of ACAS, ASAAP (Alliance of South Asians AIDS Prevention) and OPA+ (Ontario Positive Asians Network). The project intervention is adapted from the Asian MSM (men having sex with men) Resilience Dialogues intervention that was developed through rigorous community based research processes and has shown positive results in promoting various domains of resilience in a pilot of Asian MSM including PHAs (People living with HIV/AIDS). The project aims to engage a group of Asian PHAs to be trained as co-facilitators to deliver and evaluate the APHARD interventions to 2 groups of Asian PHAs. The lessons learnt will inform support and health promotion programs of all our collaborating partners. DETAILS: Asian PHA Resilience Dialogue Project Coordinator Part time Contract Position Type of Contract:  10 month, part-time (Total 210 hours) Application Deadline: Friday, March 31, 2017 (midnight) Interview date: During April 1-15, 2017 Wage: $25/hour + vacation pay Starting Date:  April 17, 2017 Responsibilities Work in collaboration with the project team, the project coordinator will: Coordinate process of updating the training curriculum Obtain research ethics approval as required Outreach and promote the project to target community members Recruit participants for the training Organize 2 series of training with the total of 30 participants Organize train-the trainer sessions for 4-6 peer participants Coordinate collection of all project statistics and data for evaluation Organize participant focus group and feedback session Coordinate development of project report and action plan  Qualifications Lived experience as a person living with HIV and member of the Asian communities Demonstrated commitment to anti-homophobia, anti-oppression, and healthy sexuality Excellent interpersonal, and communication skills Demonstrated skills [...]

JOB POSTING Women’s Outreach Program Coordinator Type of Contract: Part-time (22.5 hours/week), short-term Application Deadline: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 (midnight) Interview Date: During the week of February 21-24, 2017 Contract Duration: 4.5 months See PDF for details!

JOB POSTING We are looking a person who is passionate about serving their community to run an innovative pilot project titled: “Asian PHA Resilience Dialogues” (APHARD).  The project is a collaborative project of ACAS, ASAAP (Alliance of South Asians AIDS Prevention) and OPA+ (Ontario Positive Asians Network). The project intervention is adapted from the Asian MSM (men having sex with men) Resilience Dialogues intervention that was developed through rigorous community based research processes and has shown positive results in promoting various domains of resilience in a pilot of Asian MSM including PHAs (People living with HIV/AIDS). The project aims to engage a group of Asian PHAs to be trained as co-facilitators to deliver and evaluate the APHARD interventions to 2 groups of Asian PHAs. The lessons learnt will inform support and health promotion programs of all our collaborating partners. DETAILS: Asian PHA Resilience Dialogue Project Coordinator Part time Contract Position Type of Contract:  10 month, part-time (Total 210 hours) Application Deadline: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 (midnight) Interview date: During the week of February 20-24, 2017 Wage: $25/hour + vacation pay Starting Date:  April 01, 2017 Responsibilities Work in collaboration with the project team, the project coordinator will: Coordinate process of updating the training curriculum Obtain research ethics approval as required Outreach and promote the project to target community members Recruit participants for the training Organize 2 series of training with the total of 30 participants Organize train-the trainer sessions for 4-6 peer participants Coordinate collection of all project statistics and data for evaluation Organize participant focus group and feedback session Coordinate development of project report and action plan  Qualifications Lived experience as a person living with HIV and member of the Asian communities Demonstrated commitment to anti-homophobia, anti-oppression, and healthy sexuality Excellent interpersonal, and communication skills Demonstrated skills in coordinating community [...]