Samuel Ashley This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. AIDSLaw of Louisiana Incorporated: Professional Staff

   www.aidslaw.org/staff.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/14/2007   Last Visited: 12/14/2007

   Our Outreach Coordinator/Office Manager is Samuel Ashley.
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   Sam Ashley began employment at AIDSLaw in April 1997 as an Intake Specialist. With a degree from Southern University and a number of years of administrative experience in the United States Navy, Sam quickly mastered the skills and duties of this new position. When the position of Office Manager/Outreach Coordinator became available, Sam was selected to fill that position. His duties included everything from basic office chores to grant writing and payroll and from client intake to educational in-service. Sam's duties have also included prison outreach at the Orleans Parish Prison, the St. Tammany Parish Jail and the women's prison at St. Gabriel. Sam is also the former Chair of the Title I New Orleans Regional AIDS Planning Council which oversees the provision of services to the HIV/AIDS community in the New Orleans area. A certified Red Cross HIV prevention counselor, Sam was also on the Community Advisory Board of the HIV Outpatient Client., and was a member of the NOPIC Steering Committee, serving as a consumer. Sam is a very busy member of our staff who enjoys helping people.

2. 2. AIDSLaw of Louisiana Incorporated - Legal services for Aids Victims

   www.aidslaw.org/0104.html - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/1/2001   Last Visited: 3/29/2003

   Every month, Sam Ashley, AIDSLaw's office manager, and I take our "roadshow" to the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women at St. Gabriel (LCIW) , the St. Tammany Parish Jail and the Orleans Parish Prison (OPP). At LCIW we address the pre-release groups, which involve inmates expecting release from prison within a year. At OPP, which has a population of 5,000, we only see inmates enrolled in drug treatment programs. In the St. Tammany Parish Jail, we see a diverse population: women and men awaiting trial, federal inmates and Department of Corrections inmates.
   
   Although our presentations are tailored for each group, we always start by talking about HIV prevention, then follow up with an overview of legal issues that affect persons infected with HIV. Sam, who is a certified HIV and substance abuse counselor, leads the prevention part while I take over for the legal presentation. I talk about estate planning, medical powers of attorney, living wills, public benefits for HIV-related disability, discrimination based on HIV-status, medical furloughs for seriously ill inmates, privacy issues, and issues of transmission liability. We also talk about the services that are available after release.
   
   We decided to combine the presentations on prevention and legal issues for two reasons. First, the information on prevention is also extremely useful to people infected by HIV as a part of risk reduction to avoid re-infection with different virus strains and new infections with another STD. Second, by framing the presentation as one dealing as much with prevention as infection, people who are infected can attend without automatically bringing their HIV status into question.

3. 3. AIDSLaw of Louisiana: Pro Bono Publico Awards

   www.aidslaw.org/annual.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/14/2007   Last Visited: 12/14/2007

   Sam Ashley, Intake Specialist