GMHC Celebrates Thanksgiving
This year, GMHC is again celebrating Thanksgiving from afar due to COVID-19, and the Meals and Nutrition staff are preparing bountiful Thanksgiving meal bags to help clients have a satisfying feast. “We can’t offer the onsite meal we would typically have, but we want to make sure our clients can still celebrate and have one […]
Remembering Stephen Karpiak
Dr. Stephen Karpiak, an irreplaceable pioneer in the HIV and aging field, died on Oct. 16. He was 74. Karpiak was GMHC’s senior director for research and evaluation and the founding director of its National Resource Center on HIV and Aging, the first-ever comprehensive website repository for HIV and aging research. He is remembered by […]
AIDS Institute Legal Services Grant Helps Families Affected by HIV
GMHC is significantly expanding its capacity to provide civil legal services to families affected by HIV, thanks to a major new legal services grant from the New York State AIDS Institute. The grant, for $288,300 per year for four years, will allow GMHC to hire an additional lawyer with expertise in family law, a paralegal, […]
A GMHC Helper: Beth Henderson on Loss, Resilience and Gratitude
We at GMHC are thankful for our many supporters, volunteers and other helpers, and so for Thanksgiving we’re featuring one of them: Beth Henderson, who started interning in our mental health and substance use counseling department in September. Henderson, previously the social media manager for New Victory Theater (The New 42nd Street’s children’s theater company), […]
