The STRIVE program aimed to improve residential stability and the quality of residential life, reduce the number of runaway episodes, as well as reduce HIV-related sexual and substance use risk acts. Family conflict is found to cause runaway episodes for youth. Targeting newly homeless youth, this study developed and implemented a 5-session family-based intervention. STRIVE […]
Runaway and homeless youth have a national seroprevalence rate of 2.3%, a rate about six times higher than adolescents in the major AIDS epicenters. Links to Interventions, Training Manuals, etc. : [download id=”11917″] [download id=”11913″] [download id=”11224″] [download id=”11266″] [download id=”11915″] [download id=”11244″] [download id=”11246″] [download id=”11248″] [download id=”11250″] [download id=”11252″] [download id=”11256″] [download id=”11258″] […]
Youth LIGHT was a study to address critical gaps in research on HIV/AIDS prevention with high risk youth, offering an opportunity to shift patterns of sexual risk behaviors among delinquent youth at risk of becoming HIV seropositive adults. An intervention with established efficacy for high risk adults, Project LIGHT, was adapted for high risk adolescents. […]
This 8-year study was part of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Collaborative HIV/Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Prevention Trial in international settings, including China, India, Peru, Russia, and Zimbabwe. The trial was designed to identify, recruit, train, and engage community popular opinion leaders (C-POL) in a defined population to convey HIV risk reduction messages. […]