Programs
Regular health promotion activities are scheduled to build individual resilience, add to people’s skills and self-education, enhance access to services and/or to strengthen people’s connection with others, family and community.
Planet Positive
This is a social (Friday) night out for all positive people and their invited friends held in an Adelaide city pub environment. For some positive people this is a first ever ‘HIV’ event, while for others it helps them keep touch with long term friends. For many people, this is an opportunity to just relax, enjoy a night out and meet other positive people.
Planet Positive is held every three months – March/June/September/December each year.
The next event is:23rd March 2012
Poz Café
Held on a Saturday afternoon, our café style event brings together HIV positive people, friends and other interested community members (or health workers) for a couple of hours every three months.
The Poz Café always does something sociable with the group, has a ‘hot topic’ for discussion and gives people something informative to take home. So, creating a mix of social and informative, Poz Café is another way for positive people to meet and talk and for other people to support issues affecting positive people.
Poz Café is held every three months – February/May/August/November each year.
The next event is:Info Currently Unavailable
Poz Day Out
Providing fun and relaxation with a BBQ lunch, cup cake decorating (and eating), games and face painting, Poz Day Out is a day in the park for positive people and their family be they children, best friend, partner, mother, niece, nephew, grandfather etc everyone is welcome to join the positive family fun.
Poz Day Out is a collaborative project run by Positive Life SA and the HIV Women's Project and is held twice each year during the school holidays in April and October.
The next event is:17th April 2012
If you've been to one of the Poz Day Outs and wanted to have a go at making Katia's famous muffins yourself at home, Katia has kindly provided us with the recipe:
Kat’s Muffins
220g self raising flour (I used wholegrain)
½ cup vegetable oil
¾-1 cup of buttermilk (or normal milk if you prefer)
½- ¾ cup of caster sugar (I used brown caster sugar)
1 egg – lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
150-250g flavourings – you can be as creative as you like here: mashed banana, cut up pear and apple, raisins, raspberries and white chocolate etc, mix and match as you please! I usually don’t measure them and put heaps in, preferring my muffins to have lots of nice fruit etc (you can also add a teaspoon of spices such as cinnamon or all spice if desired)
Mix all the wet ingredients in one bowl
Mix all the dry ingredients in another bowl
Pour the wet mix into the dry mix and stir to combine. The trick is to not over-combine the mixture otherwise the muffins will loose their fluffy texture.
This mix is enough for a twelve hole regular muffin tin.
Bake at 180C for about 15 to 20 minutes
Poz on Poz
This group provides a private space for HIV positive gay men and their friends to meet and catch-up on news and events, HIV treatments information or just socialise.
During the year, our health promotion officer organises social outings for the group such as a day at the beach, perhaps paint balling or maybe a movie night.
The next event is:30th Jan 2012
This Positive Life: Expressive Arts Project
This annual arts event provides positive people with an opportunity to get creative at any level and with any degree of seriousness.
Providing performing, visual, literature and tactile arts ‘streams‘ there is something for everyone with a hint of creativity. Each ‘arts’ group is run by an arts professional and the culmination is a (voluntary) exhibition of everyone work held in December each year.
So if you are a possible teacher or potential student, come and talk with us about this program.
This Positive Life is held each year for twelve weeks followed with an exhibition from 01 – 15 December each year
The next arts program commences: TBA
‘Living Up’
If you think you might be spending far too much time watching The Bold and The Beautiful, forgetting to empty the ash tray and never getting around to weeding the garden, then ‘Living Up’ is for you (or that person you know!).
This is a short six week program to help get people moving again and living in the best space possible. The small group of 5 or 6 people make lists of each others home tasks and then help each other to get them done.
With support from our Health Promotion Officers and some talented volunteers, this is a great way to get some things done!
‘Living Up’ is run when enough people have registered interest (usually 6)
The next Living Up program commences: TBA
‘HOPE’ (Helping Ourselves through Personal Education)
This program is a 12 week mental health and wellbeing support program for positive people and those affected by HIV. Participants are paid a community participation stipend (about $30 per session) to attend the 12 sessions over the duration of the program.
Focussing on areas such as managing stress, understanding mental health, communication, relationships etc, this program allows people to support their own ideas around mental health in a supportive and safe environment.
HOPE is held once each year over twelve weeks. It commences with an Information Session and then a selection process with interested participants.
The next HOPE Information Session is:TBA
Chat Club
Chat Club is an ‘on request’ program for HIV positive people who may be newly diagnosed or newly engaging with their HIV status. We provide specifically ‘packaged’ HIV information as one off sessions to people as required.
Some people just want to know how (or who) they tell about being HIV positive. Other people only want to know what HIV will mean for their lifestyle, eg nutrition, ageing, wellbeing. While some people just want clinical insight into the virus itself.
Chat Club provides these packages of information to people as needed and if you are interested then please contact our Health Promotion Officers for session availability.
