Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center's Project Impact (Improving Access to Care and Treatment) service provides comprehensive medical services, case management for HIV+ adolescents and mental health counseling for any young people and their families impacted by HIV/AIDS.

Each patient is assigned a social worker and doctor who work together as a team to provide high quality holistic health care services. We take a patient centered approach, with the understanding that each individual has different needs and will require different levels of services.

Medical Services include:

• Specialty HIV medical treatment
• Laboratory monitoring
• Viral load testing and CD4 counts
• HIV medication (HAART/ARV), initiation and maintenance
• Routine preventative medical care
• Reproductive health care
• Gynecology and family planning
• Pregnancy prevention and testing
• STI evaluation
• Risk reduction education and counseling
• HIV testing including same-day rapid testing
• Stress reduction
• Legal Services
• Ophthalmology
• Nutrition

Support and Counseling Services:

• Weekly HIV-positive support group
• Individual and family psychotherapy, counseling and support
• Comprehensive case management
• Violence prevention and treatment
• Supportive services for survivors of sexual assault and physical and sexual abuse
• Alcohol and substance abuse prevention, treatment and support services
• Teen parenting support service
• Assistance with insurance applications, including M11Q and Medicaid
• Legal assistance and guidance with HIV- and non-HIV related issues
• Social activities including movie outings, picnics, and museum visits
• A Partnership with the international center for photography for yearly photography project and exhibition