Harm Reduction Center of Southern Oregon: Bryan McNutt joins the Board

GIVING

Rural HIV/AIDS Protest: 1991

Protests in 1991 & 1992 represented a response by an outraged rural population robbed of vital tax dollars necesary to maintain services in the countryside. As a result of these protests, rural AIDS service organizations prospered through the 1990s. Through the first half of this decade, Portland bureacrats eager to promote their careers co-opted the Statewide Planning Groups responsible for distribution of these tax dollars.

S.F. AIDS/ARC Vigil: 1986

The AIDS/ARC Vigil on United Nations Plaza at the Civic Center first drew attention to the interrelated problems of poverty, homelessness and AIDS in 1985. Protestors chained themselves to the Federal Building to publicize the need for increased federal response to the crisis. Billy Russo, Harm Reduction Center of Southern Oregon founder, participated in the Vigil for three weeks in the spring of 1986. His participation influenced the evolution of the organization over its 20 year history.

Jesse C. Corder Memorial Park

JCC Memorial Park is named for the first person to publicly acknowledge living with HIV/AIDS in rural Southern Oregon. Trees are planted for the people who died in Southwest Oregon. The Park serves as a silent witness to how we addressed the epidemic through the dying years. THIS ALBUM IS UNDER CONTRUCTION.

HIV Resource Center: 1998-2006

The HIV Resource Center. the precursor to HRCSO served Douglas, Coos and Curry Counties. In 2006 it merged with AIDS Support And Prevention (ASAP) in Grants Pass. The two AIDS Service Organizations reorganized as HRCSO

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Bryan McNutt joins the Board

The Harm Reduction Center of Southern Oregon welcomes Bryan McNutt as a member of the Board of Directors. In 1987 Bryan worked with volunteers at the Gay & Lesbian Community Center in Roseburg to help fill the gap in health services to gay men living rurally. During the late 1980s he provided medical care to people living with HIV/AIDS at his clinic in Glendale, Oregon. Presently, he is playing an instrumental role in developing integrated medical services to Douglas County residents infected with Hepatitis C.

A licensed Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP) since 1981, Bryan is employed by the Umpqua Community Health Center (UCHC) in Roseburg where he works as a clinician and administrator. He treats adolescents and adults. In his 27 year long career as a nurse practitioner, he has been working with rural and underserved populations. His leisure activities include eclectic reading, photography, sailing and canoeing.

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Harm Reduction Center of Southern Oregon

Our mission is to provide prevention, education, support, and advocacy for people who are or who could become infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, and other communicable diseases in rural Southwest Oregon.