| HIV/AIDS Prevention |
North Philadelphia HIV Prevention Street Outreach ProjectThe North Philadelphia HIV Prevention Street Outreach Project provides community-based education and prevention outreach services in North Philadelphia, specifically targeting African American women as well as African Americans with substance abuse and addiction problems. PHMC Community Health Outreach Workers contact individuals in neighborhoods and community organizations and provide HIV risk reduction counseling and literature, and prevention materials such as condoms and bleach kits. Workers also provide individuals with information and referrals to HIV and substance abuse treatment facilities.For more information, please contact:
New Pathways ProjectThe New Pathways Project is an HIV prevention project funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT). The project is a collaborative effort between PHMC and Blacks Educating Blacks About Sexual Health Issues (BEBASHI). The primary goal of the project is to assist substance abusing African American and Latino adult men and women to increase their readiness for, and access to, substance abuse treatment services as a primary means of helping them to reduce their risk of becoming infected with HIV and/or of transmitting the disease to others. A secondary and related goal of the project is to assist those men and women who are not ready to enter treatment to reduce their risk of infection/transmission by providing them with culturally-tailored behavioral risk reduction counseling, and access to health care, mental health and supportive social services. The New Pathways intervention is best described as a brief pre-treatment counseling model. Clients, most who are first identified through street outreach, participate in four consecutive counseling sessions. The evaluation of the New Pathways Project involves a longitudinal assessment of client outcomes based on data collected at three points in time: intake or baseline, 6 months post-baseline, and 12 months post-baseline. All data are collected through personal interviews. In addition to the client-centered intervention, a peer-based network called Pathfinders, comprised of former project clients and community residents, is instrumental in diffusing prevention messages to the broader community.
PALMS ProjectThe PALMS (Preventing AIDS Through Live Movement and Sound) Project is an AACO funded community intervention focusing on HIV prevention and health promotion among adolescents and young adults between the ages of 12 and 21. Using a theory-driven, theater-based approach and trained peer actors, the primary objectives of the PALMS Project are to provide HIV risk reduction information and increase participants' self-efficacy to practice safer sex behaviors. The project provides multi-session, group-level, HIV prevention intervention services to incarcerated/adjudicated, drug treatment-based, and shelter-based homeless adolescents and young adults at community-based sites in Philadelphia. For more information, please contact:
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