The Center for Positive Connections (TCPC) is a nationally-recognized, community-based, not-for-profit organization providing HIV health and prevention education, social and emotional support, mental health counseling, holistic health treatments for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) and their loved one in South Florida.  Our mission statement is to provide educational, emotional, holistic and social support to those infected and affected by chronic illness, with a special emphasis on the HIV/AIDS community.

Our services include:

• HIV Support Groups
• Holistic/Complementary Therapies
• Educational Dinner Lectures
• Monthy Newsletter
• HIV Prevention Outreach
• Social events for PLWAs & their families
• Personal services
• Computer resource center  ** COMING SOON **

Support Groups - TCPC's support groups are peer groups, facilitated by experience mental health professionals or trained peer counselor are designed to help to fight isolation, depression and other stressors that affect the health of persons living with HIV/AIDS.  These groups provide an outlet for sharing experiences and information and while building comraderie and a social support system.  Below is the Support Group schedule.   Miami-Dade support group meetings are held at 8315 N.W. 22nd Ave in Miami and Broward groups at 2817 E. Oakland Park Blvd Suite 300, Ft Lauderdale.  For more information, please contact us at 305-891-2066.

Complementary Therapies - Complementary Therapies are those medical practices that fall outside conventional Western medicine. Complementary therapies include mind-body therapies, in which the power of the mind or the spirit is harnessed to heal the body. They also encompass touch therapies, which involve massage and other forms of physical manipulation performed by practitioners to promote healing. And they comprise physical agents that are eaten, inhaled or rubbed on the skin.   Currently, TCPC offers massage & accupuncture services for people living with HIV/AIDS.  Services are provided by licensed practitioners who donate their time.  Practitioners of other healing arts are welcomed.   Please contact 305-891-2066 if you'd like to donate your time to help people living with HIV/AIDS.

Educational Services - Because knowledge is power, TCPC provides various HIV health and prevention education opportunities.   Once a month, TCPC hosts dinner lecturers that focus on providing PLWHAs with information on healthy living and managing their disease (ex. How to Read Your Labs, HIV and nutrition).   The organizaton also has a monthly online newsletter that includes information regarding local events and news as well as healthy living tips.   TCPC also maintains a Speakers Bureau of people knowledgeable about HIV/AIDS.  These individuals will speak before schools, organization and other groups to promote HIV prevention and testing. 

Social Events/Personal Services - Our organization is about making positive connections, which is why we provide opportunities for social interaction for PLWHAs and their families.  We provide free and reduced-cost tickets to entertainment and sporting events, parties, picnic and other events such as our annual Children's Christmas Party.   Free haircuts and make-up are often provided by local hair and make-up artists.  For more information on these events, please subscribe to our online newsletters by sending an email to subscribe@positiveconnections.org or call 305-891-2066.