Pierce County AIDS Foundation (PCAF)

Dave Marten

The most delightful person works there and runs the front office/counter and her name is Jill. She is the absolute most wonderful person you could meet. No matter how bad of a day your having she has that magic in her to make you feel great again I guarantee it. She's a great lady .

Oscar Silvestre

If you have any actual crisis related to housing, medical, dental, or food, there is too much burocratic red tape and too many inefficient policies and procedures in place to be of any immediate help. You'll have to make many trips here filling out paperwork and being told which parts of the puzzle you have to address next during very specific times of particular days before you find any benefit from their case management. Document every conversation you have with the case manager they eventually assign to you, because they have been known to reinvent past conversations and discredit your progress in the name of conserving precious resources for only the most desperate if cases, and even then they'll drag it out longer than most crises will wait. Website has no useful information about which services clients may seek out on which days and times, causing clients to travel there only to be turned away until the appropriate afternoon time slot. There is no information available to help determine any of these things for oneself. And they are better prepared to help you once you've had to go through an eviction and being put out on the street than they are at helping you avoid eviction in the first place. Funds from the Federal, state, and county levels go into keeping PCAF's staff paid and the lights on, but when it comes to tapping into available funds for a client's urgent needs, they look for ways to block access before resigning themselves to actually dole any out. Take notes. Get copies of everything you sign, and opt for written communication rather than verbal if you want a record of your interactions that isn't tainted by a casemanager's poor memory, misinformation, or lack of experience and abilities. Best of luck!

Lester T. Sparks jr

This place is a social service agency. Love the staff here!

Tami Scott

Pcaf has went downhill since I became a client in 2003. Poor case managent and offered no help when I got real sick still am sick drove 1600 miles to find out that I had a lesson on my kidney and lost 35 lbs and still losing but they said and my hiv doc I'm fine!!! Wrong answer I also need surgery on my back and have neuropathy in my leg lung issues so yeah and the mental health Dept. Didn't help me at all. They caused all the stress cuz I was so sick and living in my car for 6 months but I have to be chronically homeless for 2 years to get help with housing! So as sick as I am I drove all the way to my mom's and found out some of the issues lung kidney and now I need a scope done to my stomach again ! So thanks for all the help u claim to offer ur clients like I said been a client there since 2003 so almost 16 years but they kept brushing me aside saying ur just stressed they r dumb as hell