Legacy Community Health Services
Houston's Montrose Clinic and The Assistance Fund Merge, Creating Legacy Community Health Services

About Montrose Clinic
Originally established to treat sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), Montrose Clinic has greatly expanded its programs over the last twenty-plus years to meet the needs of underserved people throughout the greater Houston area. A United Way agency, the Clinic has been at the forefront of responding to the HIV epidemic since 1985, when the Clinic became the city's first, and the nation's second, alternative HIV antibody testing site. The Clinic now serves more than 15,000 men, women and teens annually, with over 30,000 patient/client visits for a full spectrum of care. Visit www.montroseclinic.org.

About The Assistance Fund
The Assistance Fund provides much-needed support to individuals living with AIDS by paying their health insurance premiums until they qualify for Medicare, and by offering financial assistance for the purchase of medication. Those we help have reached a point in their disease process where work is no longer possible and available financial resources are inadequate to maintain quality of life, dignity and peace of mind. Visit www.theassistancefund.org.

HOPE
HOMELESS & ORPHANED PETS ENDEAVOR (HOPE) is an all-foster, no kill adoption group based in the Houston area.

HOPE covers the cost of general medical expenses for the animals in the program, such as altering, routine vaccinations and treatment for parasites. Our foster families are asked to provide food, shelter and love to the animals for which they care. They receive no payment for the services that they provide. If at all possible they are reimbursed for some of their costs, but the majority care for their foster animals gratis. Without them, and the other volunteers who so selflessly do what is necessary to keep HOPE afloat, it would not be possible to run this nonprofit corporation.

One aim of HOPE is to develop a network of area rescue and humane organizations which will facilitate the rescue and placement of a variety of animals. The goal is to never have to turn away an animal in need. By forming a coalition of humane and rescue groups in the Houston area, we could potentially place all animals who need a temporary home until they are placed into a permanent one.