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Administrators

Amu Ptah – Co-Director, Chief Development & Program Officer

Amu Ptah has worked with not-for-profit organizations committed to proressive social change, empowerment and advancing community health for over 15 years. In 2003 Amu launched an independent consulting firm providing program and organizational development support and guidance to organizations in the New York City metro area including the Third Wave Foundation, World Wide Workshop Foundation, Restuarant Opportunity Centers United, the Drum Major Policy Institute, the Research Center for Leadership in Action at New York University, the Ms. Foundation for Women and the Opportunity Agenda to name a few.  As a Coordinator of Prevention Services, Amu brings a dynamic entrepreneurial spirit, solid grounding in harm reduction programming, services and policy, consistent success with building and managing coalitions, cultivating strategic alliances and fund development. 

Daisy Velez-Harris – Co-Director, Chief Financial & Operating Officer

Daisy Velez-Harris has worked with human services organizations in New York City for many years, including welfare-to-work and homeless & special needs employment programs. In her work at PHP she has honed her administrative and human resources skills and she thrives in helping others. Daisy says that through her work at PHP, “I have been introduced to some of the most interesting individuals and learned some of the most unexpected life lessons. My commitment and loyalty to the agency are never ending.”

Our Staff

Manuel Morales – Outreach Worker

Toni Smith – Part Time Outreach Worker

Toni started out as an Outreach Worker in 1999 for CitiWide Harm Reduction. Then began working in Community Follow Up for Case Management and has now joined PHPs successful Syringe Exchange Program and enjoys it. She states "I love what I do for other and how much of an impact on make on them constantly providing and promoting Harm Reduction."

Jeanetta Bushey – Mental Health Services/Social Worker

Jeannetta Bushey is the social worker/psychotherapist at PHP. She has worked as a clinician and administrator in the HIV/AIDS communities for over twenty-five years. Jeannetta is a co-founder of Bailey House, Inc., New York City’s first and oldest supportive housing program. She has also worked at Callen–Lorde Community Health Center, Housing Works, Ryan Center and Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services. As a consultant, she has provided trainings mandated by the AIDS Institute to providers in the AIDS and harm reduction communities and has facilitated groups for both staff and clients. Jeannetta has a strong commitment to the communities impacted by HIV/AIDS, especially as it pertains to mental and physical health, housing and harm reduction needs.

Randee Phillips – Acupuncturist

Randee Sue Phillips is a licensed Acupuncturist.  Randee Sue has been working at Positive Health Project since 1997.

Moshay Moses – Transgender Client Advocate

Rev. Moshay Moses is a woman of transgender experience who serves as an Advocate/Case Manager at PHP specializing in promoting health awareness among Transgender people with an emphasis on direct assistance to sex workers. An ordained minister, Rev. Moses facilitates support groups at PHP and at Midtown Community Court and Metropolitan Community Church. She is a human rights advocate for people of transgender experience, bringing attention to the whole person, body, mind and spirit. “I will continue to educate and advocate until equality is gained by a united community,” Rev. Moses explains.

Yvette Gonzales – CRCS Case Manager

Yvette Gonzales is a woman of transgender experience who has been working in the harm reduction field for almost a decade. She has her Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counseling certificate and is PHP’s Comprehensive Risk Counseling and Services case manager. She works with HIV-positive clients in one-on-one sessions to help them change their risky behaviors and use drugs safely. Yvette says. “I like to work with my clients in a nonjudgmental, safe, confidential, and fun way and I treat them with the dignity all people deserve no matter who they are. PHP has given me the opportunity to do just that and the chance to grow and be a better person.”

 

PHP peer educator presenting at the Safe Injection Site conference