LA Corp Engages Community
The Living Affected Corporation's Chief Operating Officer, C. Mabin values the ongoing collaborations and engagements with area agencies and other community based
organizations throughout Arkansas. Mabin has participated in numerous panels, broadcast, Internet radio shows, podcasting, testimonies and publishing opportunities. "For myself its all about the "work." said Mabin. Continuing, " the "work" that I speak of is the daily efforts to educate and accentuate the challenges and barriers that through our ongoing research continue to impact marginalized communities." He concluded, " I believe that if I can at least reach one individual with a positive message to help them better handle their circumstances, I then know that I've been apart of the change that I wish to see." Below you will find a organizational update and briefing on current and future growth of the organization.
An Organizational 360
Chief Operating Officer Keeps Heads Skyward
As Chief Operating Officer of The Living Affected Corporation, I am proud of the continuing
efforts that our organization has been doing in exploring training modules ranging from HIV testing and counseling, developing presentations and programming such as our Bridge The Gap concept to speak to the same gender loving community about tobacco use.
LA Corp met the challenge of submitting a bid to operate as a LGBTQ conduit in the Affordable Care Act/ Medicaid Expansion program now being finalized and our ground breaking HELP Fair is scheduled for September 27 with sights again to extend our messaging throughout the Central Arkansas area and beyond.
Furthermore, we have upcoming forums on intimate partner violence, offering capacity building opportunities for other emerging entities and using our organization as a platform to drill down on the affects of the social determinants of housing, education, food, treatment and employment juxtaposed to the HIV/AIDS dilemma. Its no secret that our agenda is full, vision becoming laser focused and approaches being redefined to secure the most social justice impact possible. After all our vision statement states, "The Living Affected Corporation is a statewide organization that is informed and connected to change the social construct of the community we serve by improving basic human rights." In this vein we are seeking to establish Regional Directors and branded affiliates in both the Western and Eastern corridor of the state to add to lackluster infrastructure that now exist.
Based on that vision and our mission to "transform communities through holistic health by providing education and advocacy" LA Corp has been steadfast in the stance that Arkansas's patchwork system of care shows signs of uncertainty and most likely will be unprepared for the rising number of possible incidences that will be uncovered as the affordable care act become realized. Although the organization supports Governors Bebee position to support Arkansas' participating in the Health Exchange Marketplace, we as a body find his past verbiage that "passing condoms in social venues such as bars" wasn't the best use of the taxpayer's dollars as shortsighted and problematic. We assert that "prevention is treatment" thereby we can not ignore the significance of this tool in our prevention arsenal as well as an essential element to the care continuum. We have been instrumental in raising the level of awareness among black MSM's that their presence is necessary at the policy table, images be included in prevention messaging and determine the course of their peer operated groups.
Throughout 2013 we will continue to forge a pathway that will connect our "hub and spoke" position of utilizing our ICARE core principals that espouse each of use will make a "I" statement followed with being "C," compassionate, "A," accountable, "R," respectable, "E," educated, about the nature of our work and the cultivated relationship to those whom we interact. We have developed a Equal Employment Opportunity policy complete with an on site reporting officer. Internally we are rapidly assessing our business best practices, structure, technology needs and strengthening our overall business model.
Our current Board of Directors have been given our blueprint of the inner workings of the organization including our financials from which we will accomplish our mission. We have issued a "call to action"from these individuals to share their energies and networks to make our goals a reality. Through all of this work, LA Corp has begun the process to retool, re-think and reposition it's strategies and time lines including a impending 5 year plan. Central to this growth has been redeploying its new mission and vision statements that clarify the groups forward momentum, relevance to the community and destination of becoming the premiere consumer driven organization in a Wellness Institute sphere. In my position of Chief Operating Officer, I am enthusiastic and optimistic to our future and vow to reach out to as many resources, allies and supporters who will help us take The Living Affected Corporation to the next level. I need your help and encourage you to donate today. Feel free to reach out to me at cornelius@livingaffected.org or call me at 501.379.8203. Let me hear from you today!!!
The Living Affected Corporation's Chief Operating Officer, C. Mabin values the ongoing collaborations and engagements with area agencies and other community based
organizations throughout Arkansas. Mabin has participated in numerous panels, broadcast, Internet radio shows, podcasting, testimonies and publishing opportunities. "For myself its all about the "work." said Mabin. Continuing, " the "work" that I speak of is the daily efforts to educate and accentuate the challenges and barriers that through our ongoing research continue to impact marginalized communities." He concluded, " I believe that if I can at least reach one individual with a positive message to help them better handle their circumstances, I then know that I've been apart of the change that I wish to see." Below you will find a organizational update and briefing on current and future growth of the organization.
An Organizational 360
Chief Operating Officer Keeps Heads Skyward
As Chief Operating Officer of The Living Affected Corporation, I am proud of the continuing efforts that our organization has been doing in exploring training modules ranging from HIV testing and counseling, developing presentations and programming such as our Bridge The Gap concept to speak to the same gender loving community about tobacco use.
LA Corp met the challenge of submitting a bid to operate as a LGBTQ conduit in the Affordable Care Act/ Medicaid Expansion program now being finalized and our ground breaking HELP Fair is scheduled for September 27 with sights again to extend our messaging throughout the Central Arkansas area and beyond.
Furthermore, we have upcoming forums on intimate partner violence, offering capacity building opportunities for other emerging entities and using our organization as a platform to drill down on the affects of the social determinants of housing, education, food, treatment and employment juxtaposed to the HIV/AIDS dilemma. Its no secret that our agenda is full, vision becoming laser focused and approaches being redefined to secure the most social justice impact possible. After all our vision statement states, "The Living Affected Corporation is a statewide organization that is informed and connected to change the social construct of the community we serve by improving basic human rights." In this vein we are seeking to establish Regional Directors and branded affiliates in both the Western and Eastern corridor of the state to add to lackluster infrastructure that now exist.
Based on that vision and our mission to "transform communities through holistic health by providing education and advocacy" LA Corp has been steadfast in the stance that Arkansas's patchwork system of care shows signs of uncertainty and most likely will be unprepared for the rising number of possible incidences that will be uncovered as the affordable care act become realized. Although the organization supports Governors Bebee position to support Arkansas' participating in the Health Exchange Marketplace, we as a body find his past verbiage that "passing condoms in social venues such as bars" wasn't the best use of the taxpayer's dollars as shortsighted and problematic. We assert that "prevention is treatment" thereby we can not ignore the significance of this tool in our prevention arsenal as well as an essential element to the care continuum. We have been instrumental in raising the level of awareness among black MSM's that their presence is necessary at the policy table, images be included in prevention messaging and determine the course of their peer operated groups.
Throughout 2013 we will continue to forge a pathway that will connect our "hub and spoke" position of utilizing our ICARE core principals that espouse each of use will make a "I" statement followed with being "C," compassionate, "A," accountable, "R," respectable, "E," educated, about the nature of our work and the cultivated relationship to those whom we interact. We have developed a Equal Employment Opportunity policy complete with an on site reporting officer. Internally we are rapidly assessing our business best practices, structure, technology needs and strengthening our overall business model.
Our current Board of Directors have been given our blueprint of the inner workings of the organization including our financials from which we will accomplish our mission. We have issued a "call to action"from these individuals to share their energies and networks to make our goals a reality. Through all of this work, LA Corp has begun the process to retool, re-think and reposition it's strategies and time lines including a impending 5 year plan. Central to this growth has been redeploying its new mission and vision statements that clarify the groups forward momentum, relevance to the community and destination of becoming the premiere consumer driven organization in a Wellness Institute sphere. In my position of Chief Operating Officer, I am enthusiastic and optimistic to our future and vow to reach out to as many resources, allies and supporters who will help us take The Living Affected Corporation to the next level. I need your help and encourage you to donate today. Feel free to reach out to me at cornelius@livingaffected.org or call me at 501.379.8203. Let me hear from you today!!!
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