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2 Padre Parkway
Suite 106
Rohnert Park
CA 94928
707-588-9477
707-588-9472 Fax
Hours: M-Th, 9-5
Email:
admin@
sunburstprojects.org
1025 19th Street
Suite 1A
Sacramento
CA 95814
916-440-0889
916-440-1208 Fax
Hours: M-Th, 8-4
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About SP/Mission
| History
| Fact Sheet
| Financials
| Staff
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Since 1988, Sunburst Projects has helped improve the lives of thousands of mainly low-income HIV/AIDS affected family members and children unable to cope with the disease on their own.
Serving families throughout Northern California, Sunburst Projects is the only local AIDS organization solely committed to addressing the social, emotional, and psychological needs and care of HIV/AIDS impacted children and their families.
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Sunburst Projects strives to keep families together (family preservation) by creating safe and supportive communities for children and families living with HIV/AIDS.
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Seventy-nine percent of clients served by Sunburst Projects are from minority populations and disenfranchised homes. Many are also single-parent families or families victimized by drug abuse and/or burdened with poverty, discrimination, and weak support systems. The families we serve are often experiencing multiple barriers to social services, including fear of the mental health system, difficulty or unavailability of transportation to health services, and ethnic and language barriers.
Today Sunburst provides the following ongoing family support services that help educate, strengthen, and empower families with children impacted by HIV/AIDS: Camp Sunburst, respite childcare services, mental health services, support groups, family-centered case management, and HIV/AIDS prevention and education. Additionally, for the past twenty years Sunburst Projects has been an important voice and advocate for raising awareness about the need for supportive services that address the specific concerns of HIV/AIDS families with dependent children.
Sunburst Projects began in 1982 with the first session of Camp Sunburst. At that time, our founder and Executive Director, Dr. Geri DeLaRosa-Brooks, PhD., was working as a neonatal nurse at San Francisco Children’s Hospital. Being touched by the children and families she witnessed struggling with life-threatening illness, she knew she wanted to do something outside of the medical model for these families. Thus, in the summer of 1982, along with her family and colleagues, DeLaRosa-Brooks started Camp Sunburst, the first summer camp in the Western United States for children with cancer.
In 1987, when AIDS was still widely viewed as a disease restricted to the gay community, DeLaRosa-Brooks recognized that HIV/AIDS had no face. Responding to the societal abandonment felt by parents with HIV/AIDS children, and the lack of a natural community of support, she met with professionals throughout the nation to further understand the growing needs of this emerging population.
Then in 1988, to address the unmet social/psychological and emotional needs of the growing numbers of children infected with the AIDS virus, Camp Sunburst held the nation’s first therapeutically designed summer camp for HIV/AIDS children and their families. Emerging out of Camp Sunburst, Sunburst Projects became incorporated as a 501(c) 3 organization in 1990.
Read more about Sunburst Project’s history on the History Page.
Sunburst Projects would like to thank Michael Maloney for giving permission to use his wonderful photography throughout this Website.
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Donate Online Now
Your donation provides
essential services and
helps us bring hope
to families with
dependent children
living with HIV/AIDS.
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