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1025 19th Street
Suite 1A
Sacramento
CA 95814
916-440-0889
916-440-1208 Fax
Hours: M-Th, 8-4
Email:
admin@
sunburstprojects.org
Sunburst Projects
P.O. Box 7771
Santa Rosa, CA
95407
Hours: M-Th, 8-4
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About SP/Mission
| History
| Fact Sheet
| Financials
| Staff
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 Staff
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Sunburst Projects has two offices in Northern California. The Executive Office is located in Rohnert Park and the satellite office is in Sacramento. While both offices deliver the same critical services to HIV/AIDS families with children they also provide services that are unique to the specific needs of the communities where they are located.
Executive Office, Rohnert Park
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Dr. Geri DeLaRosa-Brooks is the founder of Camp Sunburst and Executive Director of Sunburst Projects. In 1989, she received the Humanitarian Service Award from the United States Department of Health and Human Services for her dedication to families touched by HIV infection and AIDS.
In 1993, DeLaRosa-Brooks received the Lewis Hine Award Special Citation for Professional Service from the National Child Labor Committee for her unheralded service to America’s young people. She has been working with families and children living with life threatening illnesses for the past twenty-five years.
From 1995 to 2003, while serving as an AIDS commissioner, DeLaRosa-Brooks continued to be an uncompromising advocate for parents with dependent children living with HIV/AIDS. Today, solely as a result of her efforts to strengthen service delivery to this special population, expanded comprehensive services exist in Sonoma, Sacramento, Placer, and El Dorado Counties.
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Director of Client Services/ Family Case Manager
Mireya Herrera-Bayard has been working with people living with HIV/AIDS since 1991. During this time, she has facilitated the only HIV+ Women’s Group in the Sacramento area.
Having joined Sunburst Projects in 2000, Herrera-Bayard coordinates the delivery of family support services in the Sacramento office serving Sacramento, El Dorado, and Placer counties. As a Family Case Manager and mental health practitioner she advocates for and helps women with HIV/AIDS learn to navigate a complex healthcare system, manage employment, and childcare issues — women who often may face challenges with substance use, racism, violence in the home, and poverty.
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A mother of two children, Leah Fraga, joined Sunburst Projects in 2000 as a volunteer offering her administrative and organizational skills to help the agency provide its first delivery of services in the Sacramento community. Since that time, she has obtained a Masters Degree in Counseling at CSUS and has joined the staff of Sunburst Projects.
Today she works as a member of the family case management team providing year round family case management services. Leah also helped to develop teen services for HIV/AIDS affected youth living in the Sacramento area and is the teen project coordinator. She is a certified hospice caregiver and believes that there is no greater purpose to life than bringing sunshine into the lives of others.
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Having lost her very best friend to AIDS Jennifer knew that one day she would get involved with others living with HIV disease. This passion to serve people living with HIV/AIDS became a reality in 1999 when she was hired as the Events Coordinator for the Sacramento AIDS Foundation.
After the foundation closed its doors, she joined the Sacramento Sunburst Projects staff in August of 2003 as the Ryan White Program Administrator and Events Planner. Serving people living with HIV/AIDS has been a milestone in her life that has brought her much satisfaction.
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