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Community Education
Adolescent Education Program (AEP): The AEP provides preventive education and counseling to youths at risk by training adolescents as peer educators. The teens make presentations at schools, churches, and community programs that service adolescents. The program provides individual and group counseling, as well as homework assistance to its peer educators. Additionally, the AEP provides presentations by professionals to speak to adolescent groups, and acts as a resource to the community and to health care professionals interested in adolescent HIV prevention. The program is funded by the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute and the Tiger Foundation.
Educating People at Risk (EPAR): The goal of this project is to identify African- American, Latino, and other people of color with HIV who are not in care, assess and address their barriers to care with specific interventions, and facilitate immediate access to medical care and psychosocial services. Program activities include: (1) intensive street outreach; (2) presentations on treatment education at community based organizations; (3) HIV counseling and testing; (4) provision of resources to address specific barriers to care; (5) follow-up and tracking of health care referrals. SUNY Downstate and nine other sites funded in New York City are collaborating with the New York Academy of Medicine's (NYAM) Office of Special Populations, which will develop and oversee a quantitative and qualitative outcome evaluation of this project for all sites. This project is funded through a special initiative of the Congressional Black Caucus with Ryan White Title I funding through the Medical and Health Research Association of New York City, Inc.
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