[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 85 (Tuesday, June 19, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1153]
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                         HONORING MATT PATRICK

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                            HON. MARK UDALL

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 19, 2001

  Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the service 
of Matt Patrick, former Executive Director of the Boulder County AIDS 
Project (BCAP). After having served the people of Boulder for nearly 
six years, Matt has left BCAP to become Program Officer for the Gill 
Foundation, based in Denver. With him serving as director, BCAP 
experienced an evolution of philosophy.
  Under Matt's guidance, the BCAP budget doubled to nearly $1 million 
and the staff grew by 50 percent. Importantly, during his time as 
Executive Director, BCAP expanded its outreach programs to target the 
workplace as well as Latino/a communities. Further, BCAP was selected 
as the best non-profit in Boulder County three times under Matt's 
direction and received numerous other awards.
  Matt was also instrumental in the evolution of BCAP as a 
multiculturally proficient organization. As Executive Director, Matt 
incorporated policies and procedures to enhance the diverse nature of 
BCAP. Now there is multicultural training, a diversity coordinator and 
an agency wide multicultural staff.
  During his tenure with BCAP, Matt and his staff gave much thought as 
to whom the agency's clients were--whom it was BCAP should be serving. 
According to Matt, ``To me the reality of our mission is twofold--to 
serve people living with HIV and to slow the spread of HIV infection in 
the community.'' Simply considering those infected with HIV as clients 
of BCAP was not enough for Matt; it was only half the mission. In fact, 
in the year 2000, BCAP had 35,000 educational contacts as where six 
years ago this number was around 10,000.
  By expanding educational and outreach programs, Matt Patrick served 
his community, the community of Boulder, Colorado as few have. I 
recognize his service and pay him honor.

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