Pasco Connect Magazine

11/12/2025

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Big Shout Out to the LTS Social Action Committee for an amazing collaborative endeavor. In a time of many challenges, Soror and Chair Jewel McNaughton, was honored as a Representative of the LTS Social Action Committee to deliver care packages prepared by the RHOsebuds to Sunrise of Pasco. The items were appreciated, and the Manager of the facility sent her sincere thanks to the Chapter and RHOSEbud youth. The LTS Social Action Committee members pledged to keep partnering and empowering this organization and the areas they serve. We wholeheartedly support Sunrise of Pasco, as we believe them to be authentically making a difference in the Pasco-Hernando areas.

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10/12/2025

Pasco County has taken a major step toward saving lives, reducing preventable overdoses, and
strengthening community health access. On December 9, 2025, the Florida Department of Health in Pasco
County (DOH-Pasco) officially announced the launch of its harm reduction vending machine program, a
first for the county and a significant milestone in the region’s public health response. https://mailchi.mp/17ed7c38d95b/no-judgment-just-help

09/12/2025

✨ This annual dinner gathers advocates, state and local leaders, faith partners, medical professionals, survivors, families, and community allies working together to:
• Honor the lives lost
• Support those living with HIV
• Strengthen HIV education & prevention
• Challenge stigma and build healthier communities

🎤 Featured Program Highlights
• Keynote Speakers & Community Leaders
• HIV Awareness & Prevention Updates
• Local Perspectives on Care, Access & Stigma
• Memorial Reflections & Hope for the Future
• Dinner, Networking & Resource Sharing

💪 Why This Matters

HIV continues to impact families, disproportionately affecting Black and Brown communities. Together, we can transform access to care, dismantle barriers, and support those most vulnerable.

MAACA remains committed to education, prevention, testing access, mental health support, and HIV stigma reduction all year long.

🏛️ Host Organization

MAACA – Minority Alliance Advocating Community Awareness in Pasco County and beyond with advocacy, education, and community empowerment.

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🕯️ “Overcoming disruption isn’t just survival , it is transformation, resilience, and collective healing.”

World AIDS Day is more than remembrance, it is a call to action.


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✨ This annual dinner gathers advocates, state and local leaders, faith partners, medical professionals, survivors, families, and community allies working tog...

08/12/2025

MAACA’s 6th Annual World AIDS Day Dinner gathered community leaders, health advocates, faith partners, and families in remembrance, unity, and action. The 2025 theme, Overcoming Disruption: Transforming the AIDS Response, served as both a reflection of past challenges and a declaration that community resilience is still the strongest force against HIV stigma, health inequity, and systemic barriers.

MAACA Honors Community Strength at the 2025 World AIDS Day Dinner Click to watch clips MAACA’s 6th Annual World AIDS Day Dinner gathered com...

06/12/2025

A “beautiful” solo by Olivia Lopez for MAACA Pasco World AIDS Day Dinner 2025. Legitlivlopez

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MAACA World AIDS Day 2025. Candace Smith - community engagement coordinator for Pasco with attendees.

06/12/2025

This event was a success bc of a great group of young people that volunteered to help coordinate this dinner. Thank you Natalie Perkins who gathered the team and worked with me from beginning to the end! They helped make everything go smoothly. Thank you Olivia Lopez for proving a beautiful solo and Jayden Somwaru, Micah Walbaum for providing photography, my son Kenneth Chambers who worked the sound booth and providing light music, Sa’nijah, Tatum, Jemma, Karla, Leah and staff at Vesh Catering and Events.

06/12/2025

Each presenter for the MAACA World AIDS day dinner brought an informative presentation on the complexities of living with HIV and AIDS. Thank you to the #1 Emcee , Marlowe jones, , Aleacia Guy, Apostle Jabez Ball , Stephanie Dimarco, Nelson Ehimika Ohihoin Green Apple Rx , Niya Hubbard MAACA Tallahassee and our special presenter and evening sponsor ViiV Healthcare Maribel Gonzalez.

06/12/2025

MAACA’s 5th Annual World AIDS Day 2025 Dinner was a success! Thank you to all of the presenters, volunteers and attendees that helped to make this event informative and a reflection of the work MAACA does all year.

06/12/2025

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