Sunburst Projects provides comprehensive, culturally sensitive HIV/AIDS family services to Sacramento, Placer, and El Dorado Counties year round.

What are Family Support Services?

Sunburst Projects aims to fill a gap in family preservation HIV/AIDS services. All services respond to the family as a unit, build on family strengths, and help prevent crisis by addressing the needs of families early. Family Support Services offer a range of services to help parents cope with the stresses of daily life. These services include:

1. ✴Direct work with children/teens including anger management, therapeutic play, self-esteem, and social skills building
   

2. ✴Offering parents new information and skills pertaining to parenting and child development
   

3. ✴Reducing isolation many parents feel by bringing them into contact with other parents in similar situations
   

4. ✴In-home family-centered case management that provides assistance with household management including finance and budgeting, nutrition and healthy eating, and safety in the home
   

5. ✴Advocacy and linkage of families to other community support services that help address their basic needs, ideally before they intensify and reach crisis proportions
   

6. ✴Support to other caregivers including extended family and foster family care
   

7. ✴Advocacy and information regarding the Children with Disability Acts Programs
   

Family Centered Case Management

Enhances the quality of life of clients by helping them overcome barriers that limit their access to essential medical treatment and other care and support services in the community. For more information, please contact us.

Mental Health Support Services

Support groups and counseling services keep clients current about the many issues surrounding HIV/AIDS and help them with crucial issues such as grief, death and dying, drug abuse, disclosure, discrimination, and child placement.

Our support group for HIV+ women meets once a week. For more information, please contact us.

Childcare

Sunburst helps meet childcare needs in order for parents to attend to their own healthcare and/or family medical emergencies. For more information, please contact us.

Teen Services

Teen Services include therapeutic activities that educate teens about the importance of drug adherence, safer sex, and avoidance of risky behaviors as they transition into healthy young adults. Through workshops and support groups, teens are also equipped with leadership and communication skills that empower them to make healthy choices.

HIV Education and Prevention

Offers “Prevention for Positives Program” designed to improve adherence to HIV therapeutic regimes. Women and youth living with HIV/AIDS are available to help educate the community by sharing their personal stories.

If you are interested in having someone come speak for a community event please contact us at admin@sunburstprojects.org