AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin - Cheryl Thiede

AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin

Cheryl Thiede is the associate director of social services for the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, - ARCW.org or 836-7710. Raised Moravian, she is now part of Eau Claire 's Unitarian Universalist Congregation.

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AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin - Cheryl Thiede
How churches are helping people with aids
and how many have AIDS or HIV
How is it organized
Statewide organization, prevention services are educating and testing those at risk. Anonymous and confidential testing. and the stigma associated with aids.
Going to the places they are needed
gay bars, street outreach on water street, needle exchange at their office. her reason for doing it was social justice work.
People that touched her
both of the men that she talks about were activists. Also talks about the role of churches in helping people with aids.
Her religious history
she started out a Moravian, visited a baptist church to see a movie that turned her against fundamentalism, then ended up a Unitarian Universalist.
What services are provided
case management, medical care, food pantry, legal services, medical clinics, dental clinics, mental health services.
Why she takes care of aids patients
she got into it because she has the life mission to practice social justice.
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Cheryl Thiede
AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin
ARCW

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