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[geminigirl]

I'm not sure how to interpret the fact that my boss is updating her resume, in her office, right out in the open.

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[torena.livejournal.com]

Eek. :(

[geminigirl]

We at know that we're funded through September at least, but that still doesn't make it feel better.

[torena.livejournal.com]

That's scary. Is there a possibility that it will be funded after September?

[geminigirl]

Sort of...

The funding from SAMHSA runs out in September and isn't renewable. They're trying to scrape together funding from other sources to cover certain programs that they want to continue, and waiting on a CDC grant (the recipients will be announced probably next month) which would allow us to do similar stuff, but in a very different way.

Basically, HIV prevention for youth is disappearing around here. Primary prevention-prevention for people who aren't yet infected is not being funded, and secondary prevention (prevention for people who are living with HIV) is. As of now, CDC is funding no prevention initiatives for young people in the area next year.

The short short version is that young people are getting screwed. And they won't be taught how to prevent HIV. My thought is that there will probably be a significant rise in HIV infection rates in general, but especially among young people-they've been raised in a generally apathetic, less scary environment, where undetectable viral loads, and new, powerful drugs have made HIV appear far less scary. "Oh, get HIV, pop some pills." It amazes me when the kids I work with are horrified of the PWAs who are so thin that they look like the photos of people from the Holocaust, or the people covered with KS lesions. Not because they're not horrifying images sometimes, but because that's how I remember HIV. That's how I saw it first, that's how I learned it and that's part of the reason I can still do this work...because no one should be without the knowledge and skills to keep it from happening.

[wait.livejournal.com]

Dude.

Was she part of those layoffs?

[geminigirl]

No. Our positions are funded through September.

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

Now's the time to say goodbye
to all the company.
R-E-S
Send 'em off soon!
U-M-E
E? Eeek!

I didn't get around to doing a wish in that meme for you, btw. I wish for you to find a job that's as rewarding as this one was at its peak. :)

[geminigirl]

Awww. Thanks.

[yix.livejournal.com]

is this the same boss who said that it was rude to do job searches on the clock?

[geminigirl]

Nah, it was her boss who said that.

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

She sees the writing on the wall. No point in waiting until the funding is gone before looking for work, y'know.

[gsh]

Pam got fired once when her boss found her updating her resume at work.