About Being Alive
Our Mission: To eliminate stigma and barriers to care by delivering integrated wellness, mental health, and community support with compassion – ensuring every person living with HIV has the opportunity to thrive.
Being Alive (Being Alive/People with AIDS Action Coalition (501(c)(3) #95-4137742) is a nonprofit organization focusing on the mental health and wellness of people living with HIV and AIDS. Our services to our client-members include a variety of no-cost programs, such as comprehensive emotional support, treatment education, prevention, advocacy, wellness and social services. Our mental health program offers long term therapy for clients infected with and affected by HIV.
Established in 1986 by four friends, John Mohr, Ron Rose, Rick Ewing, and Scott Barry, Being Alive was created as a response to a need for services free of red tape and bureaucratic entanglement. These three visionaries saw the need for an organization made up of other people living with HIV and AIDS who would advocate for the HIV/AIDS community from the point of view of those who are infected. Today, Being Alive serves as a beacon of emotional support, treatment education, and empowerment to thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS.