Program Description

Cable Positive’s Employee Assistance Program is a free, confidential service administered by The Actors Fund.  It provides emergency financial assistance and social services to current and former cable industry employees and their immediate family members, including domestic partners, who are living with HIV or AIDS.  Grants are awarded for essential living expenses and medical care.

Eligibility

The following criteria must be met to qualify for assistance through this program:

• You are a cable industry employee, which is defined as a person who works for a cable television industry-related company (cable programmer, network, system, trade organization, trade press/publication, cable hardware/equipment and manufacturer), or have been employed by a cable company or production company supplying cable programming.
• You have worked in the cable industry for a minimum of one year during the past 10 years or immediately prior to the onset of disability. Or, you are employed in any of the following professional services:  acting, directing, stage managing, costume, choreography, etc., for the production of cable programming and you have worked in the above position(s) for a minimum of 26 weeks, earning at least $10,000.

     Or

• You are an immediate family member (spouse/domestic partner, parent, child, brother, sister) of an eligible cable industry member that meets the above criteria for employment and length of service.

Contact

If you would like additional information or an application, please contact

Eastern Region
Kent Curtis, LMSW, Supervisor of the HIV/AIDS Initiative
212.221.7300 ext. 142
kcurtis@actorsfund.org

Midwest Region
Don Towne, Director of Midwest Region
312.372.0989
dtowne@actorsfund.org

Western Region
Priscilla Levine, Coordinator of the HIV/AIDS Initiative
323.933.9244
plevine@actorsfund.org