by CAYR Community Connections | Dec 15, 2016 | Blog Archive
Every year ACYR hosts a day-long event of gift wrapping with a number of volunteers for items collected during out Holiday Wish List program. This is a program that matches the wish lists of individuals and families who are clients of our organization, to donors from...
by CAYR Community Connections | Dec 8, 2016 | Blog Archive
Realize (formerly the Canadian Working Group on HIV and Rehabilitation) has recently launched a new section on our web site, called ‘Consumer Information’, which brings together all of our resources which are focused on assisting people living with HIV and other...
by CAYR Community Connections | Nov 30, 2016 | Blog Archive
Good news? On this World AIDS Day, 2016, there is a lot to report. The science of treatment and prevention has much to inspire agencies delivering needed services to people living with, and at risk of, HIV. We know that there are significant health benefits for people...
by CAYR Community Connections | Nov 23, 2016 | Blog Archive
Every year as we make our way toward World AIDS Day on December 1st, ACYR engages in a campaign of awareness during the last week of November, plastering Social Media platforms (Facebook & Twitter) with #RedforChange pictures. It is a rather fun campaign to run...
by CAYR Community Connections | Nov 10, 2016 | Blog Archive
In 1982 a disease known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) became a global pandemic. In 1986 an international committee on viruses determined that HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) was the cause of AIDS. 2016 marks the 20th year since the transformative...
by CAYR Community Connections | Oct 27, 2016 | Blog Archive
Do you see reaching out for help and support as a sign of weakness or of not being able to ‘do it on your own’? We’re taught that the chief goal of aging is to maintain independence. Would you believe me if I told you that opening yourself up to others actually makes...
