TEACH Outside is an education program open to people living with HIV who have been recently incarcerated. TEACH Outside teaches participants about:
- Living healthy with HIV
- Getting the most from your health care
- Strategies for dealing with life on the outside
- Getting benefits with a criminal record
- And more…
Click here for an application for the class or call instructor, Naseem Bazargan, at 215.525.0460 ext. 417 or via email: nbazargan@fight.org.
“I don’t know if I would say that you saved my life. But you did save my future.”
-TEACH Outside Graduate
“While I was doing time in Philly, I learned I was positive in a room with no curtains. I was crying and everybody was walking by. I felt like killing myself.”
-TEACH Outside Graduate
“When you’re caught in the system, you end up going right back into it. And that’s what I’m trying to help prevent. I know it’s a hard task, but by participating in TEACH Outside and the Philadelphia County Coalition for Prison Health Care, at least I know I’m trying.”
-TEACH Outside Graduate