Program for HIV-Affected Children and Families (PIFA)

Program for HIV-Affected Children and Families is a long-term, in home and community based service providing mental health and clinical casework services to HIV-affected children and families in the interest of the child's safety, permanence, and ability to cope with potential loss.

The program includes:

• Family support for HIV-infected children and adolescents: designed to maintain HIV-infected children and adolescents within their biological families whenever possible, to prevent the disruption of the child’s important familial ties and reduce the child's distress through home-based casework and mental health services. Collaboration with medical providers ensures medical adherence.
• Clinical services for HIV-affected children and adolescents and their families: providing mental health evaluation, individual, family and group psychotherapy and permanency planning for children and adolescents living in families in which a parent, primary caregiver and/or sibling is living with HIV/AIDS.

E-mail contact:

sandra.gossart-walker@yale.edu