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What is the AAAHIS?

The Arizona African American Health Information System is a program of the Arizona Opportunities Industrialization Center (AZOIC). There are three components of AAAHIS:

1. The African American Community Health Coalition

2. The Linked Network of Services, and the toll free

3. Information Help Line

What is a Health Coalition?

The Community Health Coalition through community partnerships seeks collaboration with local organizations, community groups, small businesses, members of the faith based community, legislators, public officials, consumers, and individuals to address the health care needs of African Americans. Our mission is to improve the health status of African Americans in Maricopa County who are disproportionately affected/infected by HIV/AIDS, STI’s, Tuberculosis, and Substance Abuse.

What does a Linked Network of Services (LNS) do?

The LNS is a comprehensive web based computerized health information system building together providers of services, in formal agreements, to cooperate and develop improved access to, and health outcomes of people using the services. The LNS allows partners in the health coalition to refer, track, and provide services to clients while maintaining client confidentiality. Our goal? For African Americans, individuals, organizations, and communities to readily access prevention, treatment, care services and information in Arizona through the use of this system.

What’s the Information Help Line?

The Help Line is a toll-free telephone number allowing potential clients to call for service referrals after regular hours. The Help Line will serve as an information source and liaison between agencies, consumers, and the community to establish effective ongoing communication.

AAAHIS is a part of the National Minority AIDS Initiative targeting services to ethnic, racial, and underserved populations. Therefore, AAAHIS targets African Americans, but does not exclude anyone, and is openly available for use by all citizens in Maricopa County, and eventually plans to include all citizens of Arizona. All organizations providing HIV/AIDS, STI’s, TB, Substance Abuse prevention, treatment, and care are invited as members into the health coalition, and the linked network of services. The health coalition works closely with the Arizona Department of Health Services, Maricopa County Department of Public Health, City of Phoenix, planning and decision bodies, communities, churches, community and neighborhood based organizations, consumers, community leaders and other service providers.

Arizona Opportunities Industrialization Center (AZOIC)

Through its programs and outreach facilities, Arizona O.I.C. has provided recruitment, training, job placement and employee services to the unemployed, underemployed, and unskilled for more than 37 years. Please visit our website at www.azoic.org to access any of the following services Arizona O.I.C. offers:

Pre-employment work Maturity
Adult Basic Education
Administrative Office Skills
Counseling Services
Job Placement Services
Reaching out for Minority Personnel
Project SALT
Project Craft Skills
Summer Youth Work Experience Program
Tuition