Promoting individual dignity and support the health and well-being for at risk members of our community through compassionate services and resources.
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479 S. Main Street, PO Box 159
Angels Camp, CA
95222
| Monday | 8:30am - 4pm |
| Tuesday | 8:30am - 4pm |
| Wednesday | 8:30am - 4pm |
| Thursday | 8:30am - 4pm |
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Sierra HOPE had humble beginnings but a big mission. At the end of 1989, the Sierra AIDS Consortium was operating out of a storage room in the basement of the Methodist Church in Sonora, California. The main purpose of the organization was to provide support services and match volunteers with people who were HIV positive or had AIDS.
We teamed one or more volunteers with clients who worked 1:1 to visit people, make sure that their medications were correct, help them shop, listened to their concerns, take them to appointments, pray with them, and advocate for them with the medical establishment and the larger community. Often, the volunteers were the only people with them when they died.
Not long after its inception, the Sierra AIDS Consortium became the Sierra AIDS Council. The Council would serve Amador, Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties, communities that continue to be served by Sierra Hope to this day. The Sierra AIDS Council began to receive more grant money and was able to hire a case manager and a part-time secretary. This made the matching of clients and volunteers much easier. Eventually, the organization was also able to hire a nurse consultant/counselor.
Because of scientific research, more effective HIV treatment drugs became available for those who were HIV positive. Often, the virus never develops into AIDS. Since HIV was now more a chronic illness than a death sentence, the Sierra AIDS Council was able to start addressing other chronic illnesses such as Hepatitis C, which has much the same modes of transmission and requires many of the same education and management services. The Sierra AIDS Council briefly became Sierra Health Resources and offered Hepatitis C testing and support groups, as well as assistance with utilities, food and medications through grants, donations and by working closely with other community service organizations.
