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 ''You work with AIDS patients? They are lepers.''
I get those remarks about where I work- Schachne Institute, a long-term care facility for people living with AIDS. When I started working there in 1994, a long-term survivor was three weeks and now we have individuals who have been there for over 10 years. ''God still has something for you to do. You are going to walk out of here."
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Roxanne Fagan, LCSW skills and expertise has been developed serving the concomitant populations of mental health, substance abuse and the HIV/AIDS Community.
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 Mr. Anthony Richardson is the Executive Director and Co-founder of
Perceptions for People with Disabilities (PPD). Perceptions for People with Disabilities (PPD), a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization located in Harlem, aims to help
visually impaired/blind, hard of hearing/deaf, and physically or mentally
challenged persons access services and resources. Formed in 2004, by Anthony Richardson, Orbit Clanton, and Iris Matias-Quintana, PPD
advocates on behalf of the  Differently-abled, promotes disability awareness,
and conducts research designed to inform service providers, stakeholders, and
funders on the needs and concerns of individuals living with disabilities and
HIV/AIDS. PPD serves as an information clearinghouse and resource center. PPD
also makes referrals, provides supportive services, educational and training
programs, disability awareness outreach and presentations, and conducts
research.
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 R. Orbit Clanton is Deputy Executive Director, and Co-
founder of the AIDS Services Organization. Perceptions
for People with Disabilities,(PPD) a grassroots 501(c) 3 non-profit organization
located in Harlem, who's mission is to help visually impaired/blind, hard of
hearing/deaf, physically and/or mentally challenged persons access services and
resources. Formed in 2004, PPD advocates on behalf of the Differently-abled,
promotes disability awareness, conducts research designed to inform service
providers, stakeholders, and funders on the needs and concerns of individuals
living with disabilities and HIV/AIDS. In addition to over seeing the financial
development of the organization, and the day-to-day operations, and an AIDS
activist. Mr. Clanton has been living with HIV/AIDS for twenty-six
years.
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