What started out as a white gay man’s disease is now hitting young black gay males, black heterosexual women and Latinos in the Southeastern United States at an alarming rate. “deepsou+h,” which sheds light on the epidemic, was viewed at the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., and the 2012 United States Conference on AIDS […]
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Using Telenovelas to Provide Health Education for Latinos
Objective: To raise awareness and knowledge about diseases, provide information about healthy lifestyles, and emphasize the availability of public health insurance programs. Description: The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) partnered with Evolve Communications and the State’s most widely viewed Spanish language television station, Univision, to develop, produce and air “Encrucijada: Sin Salud no […]
Fotonovelas for Health Education
Objective: To deliver Latino-centered messages and information that is culturally appropriate using unobtrusive and educational methods. Description: The Latino community faces stigma, fear and other barriers to seeking services. Promotores and other community stakeholders write a culturally and linguistically appropriate message and develop fotonovelas to provide information and education on health issues. They are distributed throughout the community, agricultural […]
Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
Objective: Reduce existing bullying problems among students, prevent the development of new bullying problems, achieve better peer relations at school. Description: The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) is an intervention for the reduction and prevention of bully/victim problems. The main arena for the program is the school, and school staff has the primary responsibility for the […]
Building Youth Resiliency through Peer Assistance and Leadership
Background: PAL began in 1980, combining peer assistance and peer leadership strategies originally developed in the late 1970s. Over the past 15 years, these basic prevention strategies have been expanded, evolving the peer helping program from an informal, extracurricular activity in a single school district to a formally structured, curriculum-based program that has been adopted by […]
A Holistic Substance Abuse Treatment Model for American Indian & Alaska Native Adolescents
This document is a program description and clinical manual for the Walking In Beauty On the Red Road: A Holistic Cultural Treatment Model (WBRR) for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) adolescents and their families. This manual is designed as a foundation for substance abuse treatment programs to develop and replicate residential treatment for American Indian and Alaska Native […]