HIV/AIDS has produced a profoundly serious human crisis, which challenges contemporary society in a way that very few events have.  Our response to this crisis will be a measure of our world and ourselves.  The Sussex County AIDS Committee is committed to:

-                Working to insure that people with HIV/AIDS and their loved ones secure all benefits to which they are entitled in order to have the highest quality of life possible;

-                Providing services to people, using whatever resources that SCAC has at its disposal;

-                Serving as a community catalyst to construct a response to HIV/AIDS with other agencies and institutions, recognizing that no single agency is capable of doing it alone; and

-                Working to reduce the spread of HIV infection in the community by disseminating accurate information through the media, through publications, and through professional and community educational programs.

 Within ten years, SCAC had grown from an all-volunteer organization working out of members’ homes to a professionally staffed agency with owned space for programs and general administration.  Scope of services and the number of clients receiving those services had similarly grown during that first decade.

 In just over five years (1995 – 2002), the number of unduplicated clients receiving supportive services from SCAC has increased three-fold, from 48 to more than 200.  Today, four full-time staff persons and a cadre of volunteers provide a myriad of supportive services for individuals in Sussex County living with HIV or AIDS.