Dining Out for Life

Since 1992, AIDSCare has been dedicated to improving the quality of life for Chicagoans with HIV/AIDS through housing, compassionate care, and support services. Now in its 15th year, AIDSCare’s Housing and Supportive Services Program has assisted over 300 homeless and low-income children, families and adults living with AIDS to achieve stable housing, improve wellness, and transition toward greater independence.From its inception, AIDSCare has evolved to address the changing face of the epidemic, and respond to the critical needs of population simultaneously impacted by poverty and AIDS. In 2003, AIDSCare embarked on a dramatic expansion with the construction of an $18-million, five-building campus in North Lawndale, on Chicago’s West Side. Over the past two years, AIDSCare has opened two new residential facilities on the North Lawndale campus, expanding its scope to serve families for the first time, and increasing its annual program capacity from 35 individuals to up to 125 men, women, and children.In the next two years, AIDSCare will open two additional buildings on the West Side campus: a 32-unit service-enhanced supportive housing residence for homeless single adults, and a Health and Wellness Facility providing a dental clinic, pharmacy, and Wellness Center for use by residents and the greater North Lawndale community. Upon completion of the full campus in 2009, AIDSCare will be Chicago’s largest providers of permanent HIV/AIDS-dedicated housing and services.