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ATE Program Calendar: MAY 08

Asian & Pacific Islander Transgender Empowerment (ATE)
The Transgender Program

Ate(ah-tey), is a Tagalog word that references an“older sister” or “a close female friend,” and commonly used to refer to someone who is knowledgeable, experienced and matured. Not restricted to Tagalog, this reference is found in many Asian & Pacific Islander communities, like phee-sao in Thai, achi in Fookien or Indonesian, didi in Hindi or Nepali, hermana grande o mayor in Spanish, jie jie in Mandarin, onesan in Japanese, che’lu in Chamorro or mua in Hawaiian.

ATE is A&PI Wellness Center’s trangender program, and its goals are to foster the development of a vibrant, empowered and supportive Asian & Pacific Islander transgender community to reduce HIV infection in San Francisco. ATE’s strategies are:

  • to foster empowerment
  • to develop and share leadership
  • to affirm transgender identities with an underlying focus on supporting individual change within the context of community.
  • to be above all, client-centered

Be a peer leader.

Past Events

“Inspire & Achieve” Employment Workshop 3.0
Asian & Pacific Islander Transgender Employment Workshops 3.0
Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
A&PI Wellness Center

“Nurturing our Bodies and Soul” TG Three- Day Retreat
October 22, 23, 24, 2007
San Rafael, CA

“A.T.E‘s Thanksgiving Party”
Annual Thanksgiving Gathering
Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
A&PI Wellness Center, Banyan Room

Holiday Splendor” Winter Ball 2007
Annual A.T.E. Winter Ball
Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Crown Plaza Hotel, San Francisco

WE OFFER:

Individual Risk Reduction Counseling
We provide structured one to one interventions for A&PI transgenders in high risk situations. A&PI TG’s can engage in client centered HIV prevention activities that support their adoption and maintenance of HIV risk reduction behaviors. Abiding by our agency’s Ohana model, our services acknowledge the cultural, linguistic and familiar constraints of our clients through providing advocacy, escort, and interpretation to support referral and linkages.

Referrals & Linkages
As a comprehensive HIV service provider, we are committed to linking clients with our CTL (Counseling Testing and Linkages), Health Education (for prevention), and HIV Care Services (for HIV positive clients), as well as to other service providers in the community.

Free Rapid Oral Confidential or Anonymous HIV Testing
We provide free Rapid Oral Confidential or Anonymous HIV Anti-body Testing. Our
testing schedule is as follows:
Wednesdays: 4-7 p.m. (by appointment only)
Fridays: 2-6 p.m. (by appointment only.)
First Saturday of the Month: 11 am- 3 pm (by appointment only)

Please call 415.292.3400 to make your appointment today.



OTHER SERVICES WE PROVIDE:

ATE Support Group
1st & 3rd Wednesdays of the month, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
As transgenders, we deal with many particular issues and obstacles in our daily lives. We often find ourselves lost for answers with an issue or two and seem to be stuck with unsorted feelings. ATE Support Group is a transgender social/support group. It provides a safe and nurturing space for making new friends, companionship & uninhibited discussions. Partake in discussions and talks about topics that interest you as an individual and issues affecting our community. Learn from each others’ experiences and acquire more knowledge about how our community is moving forward with different aspects of life, like legal issues, transition issues, referrals to TG resources, relationships and healthy living. For more information contact Lally at (415)292-3420 Ext 348 or lally@apiwellness.org

ATE Drop- In
First Saturday of the Month, 11:00am – 3:00 pm
We launched a Drop-In group once a month, to provide another venue for A&PI transgender individuals to relax and unwind and socialize! Aside from a relaxed space, we also provide different group activities that everyone can participate in! We will also provide Rapid Oral HIV Testing to attendees!  For more information, contact Tita Aida at 415.292.3420 x348 or titaaida@apiwellness.org

ATE Socials
4th Tuesday of every other month, 5:00p.m. - 8:00p.m.
Our ATE Socials encourage healthy lifestyles and a happy fulfilling existence. ATE Socials meet once every other month in different settings, in which participants can share their recent success stories and challenges in life. We also engage participants in fun and skills building activities that everyone can participate and learn from. Venues varies. Please visit our website for upcoming dates and venues for ATE Socials!

Employment Workshops
The Asian & Pacific Islander Empowerment (A.T.E.) Program hosts its’ third wave of employment workshops! “Inspire and Achieve!” Transgender Employment Workshops 3.0 aims to encourage and nurture transgender community members in their employment goals. Discover the different career worlds of Computers, Health Care, Hospitality, and Administration with Employment Workshops 3.0!

Check out the Schedule of Workshops

Peer Leader Group/R.I.C.E.(Responsibility, Involvement, Community, Empowerment) Program
So you think you’d like to do work with your community to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in the TG community? This is the perfect opportunity. Participants will go through trainings and are assigned to do outreach to specific venues, give useful referrals, and give support to community events and peers. Step up and be a leader in your community. To inquire, e-mail tginfo@apiwellness.org

Needle Exchange
Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Venue: A&PI Wellness Center
This service provides A&PI transgenders in high risk situations, especially MTFs, with culturally and linguistically competent needle exchange services. We provide clean needles to injection hormone users in San Francisco. The program incorporates needle exchange as a tool to assess community needs and discover and share role model success stories, as well as reinforce consistent clean needle use for hormone injection users. For more information, e-mail tginfo@apiwellness.org

Outreach
TG health workers, peer leaders and volunteers go to venues where A&PI TG’s congregate. These are places like DIVAS Club, Power Exchange, and different events and gatherings. We distribute condoms and lubes and other safer sex materials at these venues. Our schedule is as follows: DIVAS Club, 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, and Power Exchange, 1st and 3rd Thursdays. We also do street outreach to sex workers in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.

Special Events
Keeping in tune with the trends and development of the TG community, we also host and organize culturally specific special events that mobilize and keep members of the A&PI TG community together. Such events are Miss Universe Party, Winter Ball, and one-day retreats, and others.


 
     
  Transgender Program Staff  
 


Tita Aida
Transgender Program Supervisor
(415) 292-3420 Ext 348
titaaida@apiwellness.org

Lally Lacy
Transgender Program Coordinator
(415) 292-3420 Ext 363
lally@apiwellness.org

Darel Ayap
Transgender Health Worker
(415) 292-3420 Ext 350
darel@apiwellness.org

 
     
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RELATED LINKS

Photos and thanks: ATE's 2007 Winter Ball

Transgender Law Project

We are Special

Metamorphosis Girls

Puttin' on the Lips Grand Finale

Become a Peer Leader

The Importance of Being "Mahu"

Transgendered Asians & Pacific Islanders

Creating Myself: Interview with Cecilia Chung

Assignment Bangkok

TG Retreat 2000

Pacific Time: HIV/AIDS and Asian Americans

TG Remembrance Day

TG Winter Ball-Our Thanks

New Beginnings: Living Life as a Transgender Filipina. I remember being in the fifth grade. I felt very strongly that there was something different about me - different from the rest of the boys. I had a lot in common with the girls that I played with. Being the youngest of five, I was always afraid to show my real feelings about myself.

Testimony submitted to the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders provides an overview to the history and challenges faced by Transgendered Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as well as policy recommendations for the future.

A Wonderful Feeling: An Interview with Cecilia Chung. Transgender activist and San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee President talks about her personal history and her vision for the future.

Check out A&PIWC's Metamorphosis Girls performing at the Asian & Pacific Islander Stage at San Francisco's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Celebration 2001.

View the on-line Photo Album for Puttin' On The Lips A&PIWC's Lipsync DIVA Contest.

 
     
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