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staff members also consider each clie n t’s
unique situation, including number and loca
tion of appointments as well as access to other
resources such as Medicaid.
Executive director Thomas Bruner explains
that program guidelines are representative of the
organizations overall migration toward serving
clients with greatest need. For some, he says,
“There is no more concrete example than things
like bus passes.”
C A P’s transportation program seeks to facil
itate access to HIV-related health and support
ive services, which Rimberg says can he inter
preted broadly. Health care, for example, can
include substance abuse treatment, counseling,
alternative care, food shopping and, in some
cases, work.
To qualify, clients must he HIV-positive, live
in the six-county metropolitan area and have an
income below 200 percent of federal poverty
level, which is a
yearly gross income
of $17,180 if single
or $23,220 for a
couple. (The level
rises with addition
al family members.)
Once eligibility
is determined, cli
ents can receive a
set level of service
for a specific time,
ranging from gas
vouchers to Tri-
Met and C-Tran
tickets. Staff mem
bers also are avail
able to assist clients
in accessing alter
native programs to
meet
non-HIV-
related transporta
tion needs.
as yet another flaw of the policy.
“Though tracking of HIV/AIDS testing is
said to he done on an exclusive system, social
and health care services to those who are
infected and receiving services because of their
disease may not be,” he said. “The very real
fear of just such a breach is just another good
example of why Oregonians at risk of con
tracting HIV disease will refrain from getting
tested until it is too late for themselves and
those with whom they come into high-risk
contact.”
The health and human services agency has a
two-year budget of about $7.3 billion and 9,500
employees working in its various divisions and
program offices. It is the Oregon state govern
ment’s largest department.
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Rights Cam
paign recently added
openly gay baseball
player Billy Bean to
the lineup for the
2001 Portland Gala
Dinner. The event
begins 6 p.m. Sept. 9
at the Hilton Hotel,
921 S.W. Sixth Ave.
Bean, who from
1987 to 1995 was
with the D etroit
Tigers, Los Angeles
Dodgers and San
Diego Padres, came
out of the closet in
1999. He is the
first Major League
Baseball player in
20 years to ' ac
knowledge
Cases generally Openly gay baseball player Billy Bean will deliver
homosexuality, his
are reassessed every the keynote speech during the Human Rights
Bean retired in
six months.
Campaign’s 2001 Portland Gala Dinner
part because of the
death of his former
For more information call Helene Rimberg at
partner and the frustration of holding onto that
503-223-5907.
secret. His desire not to let that happen to any
one else pushes him to share his story.
“I believe that all people, regardless of
their
personal belief or religious background,
ecurity apse
orries
would agree that being honest with yourself,
A ID S ctivists
your family and those around you is a great
tate auditors say the Oregon Department of
foundation for living your life,” says Bean,
Human Services needs to beef up its com
who will deliver the keynote speech. “It has
puter security system, The Associated Press
been a long, hard journey for me, and I want
reports Aug. 28.
people to learn from my mistakes, not share
According to a report for Secretary of State
them.”
Bill Bradbury: “The department is unable to
The fund-raiser also will honor U.S. Rep.
protect confidential health and welfare informa
Brian Baird, D-Wash., and Ron Glanville, a
tion (because computer security] has not
member of H RC’s board of governors, and will
received an appropriate level of attention and
feature excerpts from When Pigs Fly. Tickets cost
resources. [The agency] may risk violating state
$ 150 each.
and federal laws that require the safekeeping of
welfare information and consequently may
For tickets call 800-494-8497 or visit the Internet
incur penalties.”
site uAwu.boxofficetickets.com.
The report indicates employee training
manuals were posted on agency Internet sites
iller care
even though they contained confidential
information, including Social Security num
acific Northwest television stations had a
bers, “medical payments issued and sensitive
field day last month when the FBI issued a
narratives about the client.” Auditors also
warning that a gay killer might be headed from
blame the lax security system for contributing
San Francisco to Portland or Seattle.
to $200,000 in employee thefts from the
It turns out investigators were looking in
agency during the past six years.
the wrong direction: Adam Joseph Ezerski, 19,
T he news didn’t bode well for the Oregon
was arrested Aug. 17 at a Holliday Inn in
JHealth Division’s proposal to report the
Reno, Nev. He since has confessed to killing
names of those testing positive for HIV,
one man in self-defense in Fort Lauderdale,
which is slated to go into effect O ct. 1. A ID S
Fla., and trying to strangle another in San
activist Steven Henson, one o f the leading
Francisco.
critics of the change, cited the security lapse
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