About Us

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Fernando Soto Abigail Olavarria Elizabeth Claudio

Executive Director Program Director Referral/Data Specialist

Michael Duncan Baron Graham Robert Soto

Physician Assistant Case Manager Senior Peer Educator

Lillian Ferrer James Sanchez Brenda Watson

Outreach Specialist Patient Navigator Outreach Specialist

Jessica Taitt Emmanuel Esaw Marina Fernandez Case Manager Tech Peer Educator Peer Educator

Francisco Martinez

Maintenance

AHP was started when the founders, Fernando Soto, and the Board Chair, Richard Curtis, organized community leaders and residents to provide desperately needed harm reduction services at night. In addition they both made significant donations that allowed their vision to become reality, by renting a site, purchasing furniture & program materials, and making a down-payment on a 15-passenger van that enabled volunteers to serve several sites in a single night.

Among the services that AHP currently provides and which are funded by the NYS/DOHMH AIDS Institute and NYC-DOHMH/MHRA are: intakes and assessments, SEP and ESAP, outreach to injectors and other high-risk drug users, individual and group level interventions, harm reduction counseling, education on safer injection practices, condom and bleach kit demonstration and distribution, supportive services, referrals, client escort and overdose prevention. In addition, AHP currently provides meningitis vaccines through the NYC/DOHMH, overdose prevention and Hepatitis C education and screening.

After Hours Project, Inc.