Annual Report
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP Karol Collymore, President Nike Tyler TerMeer, PhD Chief Executive Officer Brian Buck, Vice President Medtronic Peter Parisot Chief of Staff & Chief Legal Officer William E. Spigner, Secretary Nike Chris Altavilla Director of Healthcare Operations Edwin Kietzman, Treasurer Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores Kristi Addis Director of SW Washington Services Miguel Villarreal, Member at Large Kaiser Permanente Erin Butler, MSW Deputy Director of Prevention BOARD MEMBERS JUNIOR BOARD Adrian Cook Controller Kurt Beadell Vibrant Table Catering & Events John Domingo Travis Meuwissen, Chair Tracy Curtis Incoming Chief Finance & CJ Grub, Vice Chair Wells Fargo Bank Operations Officer JP Allen Eric Garcia Déja Fitzgerald Multnomah County Briana Burke Equity + Inclusion Advocate Paul Hempel Jared Cassel Jessy Baros Friedt Retired Corporate Attorney Director of Development & Calvin Choi We support and empower all people living Communications James C. Hess Jason Desilet Opus Search Partners with or affected by HIV, reduce stigma, and Mandy McKimmy, DNP, FNP-C Dev Devvrat Prism Health Medical Director Andy Jamison-LeGere OnPoint Community Credit Union Lance Heisler provide compassionate healthcare to the Wenda Tai Outgoing Chief Financial Officer Jordan Olson Eliot McBride LGBTQ+ community & beyond. Community Advocate Nicki Turk Francis McBride Director of Housing & Rhodes Perry Dan O’Neill Support Services Rhodes Perry Consulting, LLC Founded in 1985 as a grassroots response to the AIDS crisis, Sabrina Pomar Brandy Richardson Paul Southwick Thomas Shapiro Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) is now the oldest and largest Human Resources Administrator Paul Southwick Law, LLC Virginia Tat HIV-services and LGBTQ+ healthcare provider in Oregon and Eowyn West Kris Young Executive Assistant Nike Shannon Walton-Clark Southwest Washington. 520 NW Davis St, Suite 215 Portland, OR 97209 www.capnw.org When we at CAP selected “Reflections” as our annual support systems that people affected by HIV created in executive-level Equity & Inclusion Advocate position to theme for 2020, we could not have anticipated the the early 1980s—one of which would become Cascade lead our equity work. That work will continue beyond many meanings that the theme would take on over the AIDS Project. I have never been prouder of our agency 2020, I promise you; racism is a virus with no vaccine. course of this momentous year. We thought we were than when, after we were required to close our offices commemorating our 35th anniversary by setting our in mid-March, our staff pivoted to remote service and Next year marks another anniversary: 40 years since The outbreak of an intention to reflect on our history and our purpose. We did everything they could to make sure no one we serve the first case of HIV was diagnosed in Oregon. Nothing thought we would spend 2020 looking backward and was left without support, from getting cell phones into is worth the thousands of lives we’ve lost over the unknown virus evoked inward. I thought mirrors would look fabulous on my the hands of hard-to-reach clients to delivering food past four decades—but something was gained. In memories, firsthand CAP Art Auction ensemble. boxes every week to those experiencing food insecurity. the concept of contact-tracing and the wisdom of infectious-disease experts such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, and inherited, of the Then came the COVID-19 pandemic. And the racial- In May, the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis one can see reflections of the HIV epidemic—a little justice uprising. (And the wildfires, and the presidential police officers, and the massive protests it incited, light shed on the fight against this new virus by hard- HIV epidemic’s fearful election, and on and on.) Our plans for a year of pushed CAP to look harder at our organization, its past, earned knowledge from the fight against another. remembrance and rumination were shattered. And and the ways in which we have not shown up—and are early days. yet, ultimately, 2020 was a year of “Reflections” for CAP still not showing up—for Black lives. In a year when the I look forward to the day when both COVID-19 and HIV anyway. urgent needs of our clients, our families, and our selves are pandemics of the past. Until then, CAP will be here. competed for our attention, racial justice remained The outbreak of an unknown virus evoked memories, firmly a priority at CAP: Our staff spontaneously formed Sincerely, firsthand and inherited, of the HIV epidemic’s fearful a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) discussion group. Tyler TerMeer, PhD early days, while the mutual-aid networks that sprung Our management team embarked on a six-month Chief Executive Officer up in response to the novel coronavirus echoed the series of DEI capacity-building trainings. We created an PRISM HEALTH DEMOGRAPHICS DEMOGRAPHICS RACE RACE 7% WHITE: 66% BEHAVIORAL PRIMARY WHITE: 72% BLACK: 7% BLACK: 5% 4% HEALTH CARE 5% 66% ASIAN: 4% ASIAN: 5% 72% 6% 5% NATIVE AMERICAN/AMERICAN INDIAN: 6% NATIVE AMERICAN/AMERICAN INDIAN: 5% 3% 5% NATIVE HAWAIIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER: 3% NATIVE HAWAIIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER: 2% 14% 2% UNKNOWN: 14% 269 1,409 UNKNOWN: 11% 11% 8% 12% ETHNICITY behavioral health primary care ETHNICITY patients served patients served HISPANIC (ALL RACES): 8% HISPANIC (ALL RACES): 9% SEXUAL ORIENTATION GENDER IDENTITY GAY/LESBIAN: 35% GAY/LESBIAN: 43% GENDER IDENTITY CIS MALE: 32% CIS MALE: 47% ADDITIONAL ORIENTATIONS: 41% ADDITIONAL ORIENTATIONS: 36% CIS FEMALE: 15% CIS FEMALE: 16% TRANS MALE: 10% BISEXUAL: 12% BISEXUAL: 11% TRANS MALE: 9% TRANS FEMALE: 6% TRANS FEMALE: 7% 6% NON-BINARY: 26% STRAIGHT: 6% STRAIGHT: NON-BINARY: 12% OTHER: 10% OTHER: 7% UNKNOWN: 6% UNKNOWN: 4% QUESTIONING: <1% SEXUAL ORIENTATION QUESTIONING: <1% < 29: 8% SW WASHINGTON HOUSING & 30-39: 25% PREVENTION 413 156 SUPPORT 40-49: 25% 50-59: 31% 268,472 people received people with HIV SERVICES condoms and other safe-sex medical case received supportive 11% 60+: materials distributed management services services volunteers total 1,178 394 502 106 Total housing benefits 162 people living households received paid: people received people received short- with HIV received long-term housing term or transitional long- or short-term supportive services housing assistance $373,189 assistance housing assistance $214,798 support volunteer of in-kind value DEMOGRAPHICS DEMOGRAPHICS 613 people assisted with PrEP RACE RACE 520 in individuals enrolled insurance health WHITE: 68% WHITE: 70% BLACK: 12% BLACK: 19% ASIAN: 2% 12% NATIVE AMERICAN/ 19% 2,318 2% NATIVE ALASKAN: 2% NATIVE AMERICAN/ HIV tests provided 68% ASIAN/PACIFIC NATIVE ALASKAN: 3% 70% ISLANDER: 2% 2% 2% NATIVE HAWAIIAN/ 3% MULTI-RACIAL/ PACIFIC ISLANDER: <1% 1% 15% 1% OTHER: 1% MULTI-RACIAL/OTHER: 1% 1% 19% UNKNOWN: 5% 10% 1,893 ETHNICITY individuals tested for other HISPANIC (ALL RACES): 15% GENDER IDENTITY CIS MALE: 80% CIS FEMALE: 15% MALE: <1% TRANS FEMALE: 2% TRANS 2% GENDER NON-CONFORMING: ETHNICITY sexually transmitted infections VOLUNTEERS 6,994 hours volunteer total HISPANIC (ALL RACES): 19% BY THE NUMBERS BY 1981 1990 1991 2017 2017 First reports arise of a disease affecting Ryan White dies at the age of 18. NBA legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson CAP opens new CAP opens Prism gay men in San Francisco & New York. announces that he is HIV-positive Vancouver office Health, Oregon’s The Ryan White CARE Act passes. CAP It is later given the name GRID for Gay and retires from basketball. receives its first federal government to expand services premiere LGBTQ+ Related Immune Deficiency. funding to provide support services to in SW Washington. primary care clinic. clients living with HIV. 2018 1983 2012 1989 1992 As CAP continues to The Human Immunodeficiency Virus The AIDS Memorial Quilt is displayed in expand, another The first CAP Art The first reports of successful (HIV) is identified. its entirety in Washington, DC for the first office opens in Auction is held, which combination drug treatments for AIDS are published. time since 1996. Volunteers have to rotate Longview, WA to offer goes on to become the nearly 50,000 panels to ensure that the more support to agency’s largest annual entire work is displayed. people living with HIV. 1985 fundraising event. CAP is founded to 2010 provide outreach & 1995 CAP gets its first prevention education. 1988 The CDC announces that AIDS has 2019 become the leading cause of death for funding to offer HIV Rock Hudson’s revelation that he has AIDS For the first time, more new AIDS cases in Prism Health launches Americans aged 25 to 44. testing and prevention makes the disease a household word. NYC are attributed to needle sharing than services in Southwest its Behavioral Health to sexual contact. The majority of new AIDS New programs are The CDC estimates as many as 1 million Services. cases are among African Americans; people of Washington. people worldwide are infected with HIV. developed at CAP to color account for more than two thirds of all provide housing for Ryan White, an Indiana teenager with new cases. people with HIV. AIDS, is barred from school; goes on to The first World AIDS Day is held on December 2002 speak out publicly against AIDS stigma 1 to create global AIDS awareness. 2020 and discrimination. UNAIDS reports that women make up half of all adults living with HIV worldwide. Prism Health becomes a Federally Qualified 1987 Health Center Look- 1996 Alike. 1986 CAP sponsors its first 1998 pledge walk, “From A combination drug treatment CAP opens its Gay Men’s Health Crisis holds the first All Walks of Life,” known as the “AIDS cocktail” is African Americans account for 49% of AIDS integrated pharmacy AIDS Walk in New York; over 4,500 introduced and patients are often deaths.