Whats the usual way a doctor would communicate a test result?
Kim: Doctors are seldom connected to the community in the way that organizations like us are. So it’s really helpful when we’re able to bring our perspective to them. They are not always resistant, it’s just that their medical training does not include stuff like talking to young people as a special population. They are different from children. Different from adults. • Project AHEAD is unique in the country in that they provide a continuum of care to positive youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. They work with about 10 different organizations to make sure they have services for young people. In some cases they provide one case manager or one administrative assistant or whatever it is the agency needs in order to better serve youth. TI: How about the numbers of people you serve? Kim: Just the speaker’s bureau alone probably serves tens of thousands per year. We speak to whole high school assemblies and small ESL [English as a Second Language] classes. It just depends on where there’s a
