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By KEVIN SPENCE
Friday, August 08, 2003
Elsie Del Campo, a 30-year veteran in the field of human services, will lead
he New York City HIV/AIDS Services Administration, announced Verna Eggleston,
the Human Resources Administration Commissioner. Eggleston said Del Campo would
begin her tenure on August 4.
HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) has come under fire earlier this year
as the mayor announced a “doomsday policy,” which advocates said
would destroy services for those with HIV/AIDS.
Under the mayor’s plan, advocates alleged that he was trying to dismantle
Local Law 49, a law passed in 1997 which formalized AIDS services in the city.
They also said he was trying to outsource HASA case management, halt money
to people of color for the prevention of AIDS and merge the Mayor’s Office
in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Specifically, HASA provides services and support to people who are HIV positive
or who have full-blown AIDS. It serves 31,000 clients and provides related
support to 14,000 family members.
Del Campo began her career in human services in 1974 as a social work supervisor.
She then served in a variety of public and not-for-profit social services agencies
over the years. In 1996, she was named deputy commissioner at the city’s
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where she was responsible for mental
hygiene programs that were operated through contracts with voluntary agencies.
Del Campo is a graduate of Barnard College and earned her master’s degree
in social work from Fordham University. She began her career in 1974 as a social
work supervisor. Over the years, Del Campo has served in a variety of public
and not-for-profit social service agencies.
Jennifer Flynn is co-director at the New York City AIDS Housing Network, a
part of a coalition of AIDS-services organizations. She has already sent a
letter to Del Campo, inviting her to a meeting.
Flynn, a longtime adversary of the Bloomberg administration’s AIDS policies,
is looking forward to the new HASA direction under Del Campo.
Flynn is concerned,
however, that the mayor hired a former city agency head. She also wishes that
Del Campo had a stronger housing background, but is hopeful that Del Campo’s
solid social work experience will impact on the troubled agency’s work
with clients.
“Elsie Del Campo’s record of experience in human services speaks
for itself,” said Eggleston.
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