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Friday, August 27th

9:30-11:30am

Come on by and learn about PreventionWorks! and the Center for Health Initiatives (formerly the Center for Minority Studies) and the services we offer! Breakfast will be served. For more information, please contact Willie Ringold (wringold@preventionworksdc.org).

Every Wednesday

5:30-6:30pm

Prevention Works!
2501 Benning Rd NE

Stretch, strengthen, and let go of stress by joining this weekly mindfulness class that combines yoga, meditation, and breathing exercises. After a few yoga stretches that can help sooth aches and tension, we calm and center through meditation. Breathing exercises can also help us pause, energize, cope, and relax. These free classes are open to anyone who wants respectfully to join in. No special clothing is required, but you will be asked to take your shoes off during class. YogaActivist.org volunteer teachers lead these mindfulness classes, because they want to share the same practices that help them so much. We look forward to practicing with you soon!

Community Health Fair

Saturday, July 24^th,

10am-4pm

·         Meet Community Service Providers

·         Tour the Mobile Health Unit

·         Tour the Neighborhood Harm Reduction Center

·         Make Safer-Sex Kits

·         Get an HIV Test

A Quality of Life Retreat for people living with HIV/AIDS will be held from December 6th to December 9th. at the Washington DC Retreat House is operated by Sisters of the Franciscan Order. The Retreat is a chance to It is a chance to get away, to get together, to interact and to learn the techniques and attitudes that are effective in dealing with the issues of long-term survival.

The Retreats have four objectives

1. To provide a safe, living environment in which participants can fully be them selves, free of fears, and inhibitions, and can deal openly with their deepest concerns.

2. To offer spiritual, practical, educational and health resources to those whose lives have been, are and will be affected personally by HIV infection.

3. To listen to what HIV infected persons have to say about their journeys.

4. To offer and develop a viable model of how the religious community can make a compassionate and effective response to this crisis.

To be considered for this retreat, you must fill out an application along with $10 application fee. For more information, visit www.qualityofliferetreatshiv.org.

Check out the Washington Blade for a great article about Jacob Pring and his signature POZ parties. The Blade writes:

But perhaps Pring’s signature event — or at least the one that’s generating the most community response — is POZ D.C., a weekly mixer at Green Lantern for HIV-positive gay men and those who support them. He does the same thing every Thursday in New York and has plans to “take it national.” Another incarnation debuts May 18 at the legendary Philadelphia gay bar Woody’s. Pring says Chicago is up next.

click here to read the whole article.

POZ, comfortable nights out for POZ guys, their friends & supporters, now has new days and locations.

Now you can also find POZ every Wednesday: 7pm-12am UPSTAIRS at the Green Lantern, 1331 Green Court NW.

POZ also takes place on the fourth Saturdays at MOVA Lounge, 1435 P St NW, from 9:00 PM till close.

The goal of POZ is to give the HIV+ community of the DC metro area, and those who are supportive, a safe place to gather, socialize, find new friends, maybe even a date, and of course, moral/emotional support. The DC Center is proud to be a co-sponsor of this event.

DC Community AIDS Network and Alpha Drugs invite you to Survival Forum IX. Dr. Milton Mills will lecture on the relationship between nutrition and HIV/AIDS focusing on the special medical and nutritional requirements of HIV/AIDS Patients.

Survival Forum IX takes place Tuesday May 18th from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at Hotel Palomar, 2121 P Street NW. Free dinner served.

Dr. Mills, a Stanford University schoolf of medicine graduate and Discovery Health Channel Spokesperson, practices outpatient clinic-based medicine in Northern Virginia and works as a critical care physician at Fairfax Hospital.

The popular POZ party is growing. In addition to having POZ nights every Tuesday at Motley Bar, there is now a monthly POZ event at MOVA (formerly HALO) the fourth Saturday of every month.

The goal of POZ is to give the HIV+ community of the DC metro area, and those who are supportive, a safe place to gather, socialize, find new friends, maybe even a date, and of course, morale/emotional support.

For more information check out the POZ Facebook Group, or read this article about Jacob Pring and the POZ Party.

Jacob Pring is featured in this Examiner Article talking about the POZ Mixers that take place every Tuesday at Motley.

This is not your typical happy hour social. And it is not quite an old-fashioned support group. It is a mixer for gay, positive men in D.C. Why does such a mixer need to exist? Jacob Nathaniel Pring created such a mixer to help ease the tension when one must disclose his status to a potential partner. It’s POZ night on this sublimely frigid Tuesday and it’s been going on now for six weeks. Chris, a regular patron, shares “It’s hard. You have two or three amazing dates and then you have to come to them and say ‘I have something to tell you’. At least here you don’t have to be so dramatic”.

continue reading this article in the Washington Examiner.

The DC Community AIDS Network (DCCAN) HIV Support Group is coming to the DC Center! The HIV Support Group will meet on the first and third Wednesday of every month in the activity room at the DC Center.

The first meeting will take place on Wednesday, January 20th from from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM at the DC Center.

The DC Center is located at 1810 14th St NW, convenient to the U Street/Cardozo Metro Stop, and on the 14th St Bus Lines.