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John Merz

John Merz is the Executive Director of the Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition (CARC), the statewide AIDS umbrella organization in Connecticut . He has been the director for 10 years. During his time at CARC, the agency changed its original mission as a coalition of AIDS housing providers to a coalition of all AIDS service providers, and modified its name from the Connecticut AIDS Residence Coalition to its current one. The coalition provides leadership to the state in the arenas of public policy, consumer empowerment, encouraging employment for persons living with AIDS and technical assistance. Additionally, it provides approximately $450,000 in direct financial support to help meet the housing, medical and basic needs of persons living with AIDS.

Prior to CARC, John, an ordained Presbyterian minister, directed AIDS Ministries Program of Connecticut, an agency dedicated to involving the religious community in a caring and compassionate response to AIDS for 6 years. He started working in the AIDS field in 1988 as the second hired staff person at the local AIDS project in Hartford, CT.