Shanti Project
Derrick Mapp has extensive experience in counseling and health training, currently serving as a L.I.F.E. Counselor and Senior Services provider, as well as a project developer for the LGO Project at the Shanti Project since April 2004. In addition to these roles, Derrick has been an HIV Health Counselor and National Trainer for Shanti since 2004. Derrick's educational background includes studies in Humanities with a focus on Comparative Culture and Social Anthropology at New College of California from 2001 to 2002, as well as coursework at Penn State University from 1982 to 1984.
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Shanti Project
The Shanti Project's community of Volunteers and Staff provides emotional and practical support to San Francisco's most vulnerable individuals living with life-threatening illness. Founded in 1974 by Dr. Charles Garfield at the UCSF Cancer Institute, Shanti was among the first volunteer organizations to work with terminally-ill individuals and later became one of the first community-based HIV/AIDS organizations in the world. Shanti has trained over 18,000 volunteers in the Bay Area and 600 organizations world-wide in the Shanti Model of Peer Support™; these volunteers have provided over 3 million hours of practical and emotional support to San Francisco residents with cancer or HIV/AIDS. For the 2,200+ clients we serve each year, Shanti represents the difference between zero and one – the difference between a client having to face a life-threatening illness alone or having at least one caring presence at his or her side. Shanti enhances the quality of life, health and well-being of people living with life-threatening illnesses.