About Us

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Fernando Soto Abigail Olavarria Luis Ortiz

Executive Director Program Director Info/Referral Spec.

Michael Duncan Robert Soto James Sanchez

Physician Assistant Senior Peer Educator Case Manager Tech

Magdalena Mangual Elizabeth Claudio Sharlette Smith

Case Manager Admin/Data Entry HIV Counselor/Tester

Diovigilda Vargas Janet Skinner Soraida Resto

Senior Peer Educator Outreach Educator Peer Educator

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.