Its been 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the U.S.  HIV is still a reality for more than 1.1 million Americans.  Much can be said about the work that members of the C2PLA coalition has done to help reduce the cases of new infections.  No matter what is said, its important to remember that like the video below says "HIV Ends With US"!

Greetings C2PLA Members and Supporters,

I hope this email finds you all well and rested after receiving an extra hour of sleep on Sunday.  Hopefully you’ve also had a chance to turn all your clocks back an hour, and if not being an hour early is always better than being an hour late.   

Speaking of time, on behalf of the 2011 C2PLA Retreat Planning Committee I would like to take this time to personally invite you to our 2011 holiday retreat.  This is our fourth annual holiday retreat and our first with a theme.  Join us as we “Look Forward to Our Legacy” on Friday December 9, 2011.  To RSVP please visit www.tinyurl.com/c2pla-2011holidayretreat

The planning committee is working very hard to ensure you have a day full of fun, laughter, and team building as we work on our strategic plan for 2012.  We also use this day to celebrate the successes of both the coalition and the individuals who contribute so much of their time and effort to keep our work sustainable.  So whether you’ve been to one meeting this year, or all 36, we’d love to see you at the retreat.

New this year is our Key Actor Awards, for the first time in our coalition history members will decide on which individuals will be awarded one of 10 individual awards highlighting their contribution to the coalition.  If you haven’t voted yet please do so by visiting http://tinyurl.com/c2pla-keyactorawardnominations  before November 25th.

Lastly, at our October meeting we decided as a coalition to sponsor 11 youth whose lives have been impacted by HIV.  On the retreat confirmation page you will be given the option to choose one of these 11 youth to sponsor with a gift.  Please feel free to bring your wrapped or unwrapped gift with you to the retreat.  If you aren’t able to attend the retreat but would still like to give a gift to one of these young people, please send me a message indicating this and I will make arrangements to pick up the gift from you before the 9th. 

I look forward to seeing you all on December 9th.

Warm Regards,

Milton Smith
 Project Director
Connect To Protect Los Angeles (C2PLA)
www.c2p.la  

 Greetings C2PLA Members and Supporters,

Welcome to our newly redesigned website!  Knowing that you depend on our site to learn about the new and ever changing happenings of the C2PLA Coalition, we’ve rebuilt our site to make it much easier to find and share information.

As we approach the 11th year of the project, we continue to be inspired by the passion and dedication we see in our community partners, stakeholders, policymakers, funders and advocates, all working on behalf of youth in our target population.

As part of our commitment to keeping our work easily accessible, we have created a more navigable website with additional resources, better tools, and a new visual design to support the coalition’s work.  Stay tuned in the coming months for new resources to appear in each of the links of our page.   We are also slowly rolling out our Google email function which will allow you to receive updates from us in a more timely and organized fashion.  This new function will also allow you to share information with members of our network as well as help you keep up to date on the latest information going on in our community.   

With our completely redesigned site, you are now able to find everything C2PLA related all in one place.  This includes our Calendar section which includes both meeting dates and locations for our various working group and subcommittee meetings, a Milestones section where you can see some of our completed structural change objectives, and much, much, more.    


Reflecting our long-standing commitment to collaboration and continuous improvement, we welcome your feedback as we continue to improve this site.

Sincerely,

Milton Smith
Project Director
Connect To Protect Los Angeles (C2PLA)