Program areas at The Knights and Orchids Society
Fast Affirming Innovative Testing and Health Care (FAITH): By the end of the grant period, annually at least 40 BMSM and transgender PWH residing in Dallas, Houston, or Montgomery Counties will have the peer, psychosocial, HIV navigation, and case management support they need to ensure at least 85% are linked to care within one month, 90% are retained in HIV medical care, and 80% are virally suppressed within six months of care linkage as part of TKOs EHE work.
The Black Sheep Farm and Innovation Center (TBSF-IC): By the end of the grant period, TBSF-IC will have ensured at least 250 families located in Alabamas Dallas, Wilcox, Marengo, and Perry Counties have temporarily relieved their hunger, reduced their nutritional deficiencies, and at least 100 of them (with at least 30% being queer/transgender Black people with HIV) will have measurably strengthened their capacity to access and better utilize healthier food options through program delivered educational offerings.
Tiny House Project: By the end of the grant period, annually at least 20 Black queer, transgender, and/or gender nonconforming individuals will have been media trained in public speaking and narrative storytelling techniques using multiple mediums, including spoken word, personal narrative essay, photo essays, video blogging, and other artistic forms to elevate the voices, issues, and concerns of rural, Southern Black queer and transgender community experiences to shift the narrative on who these communities are, what they need, what challenges them, and how they contribute to multiple communities to influence community attitudes and public policy.