Portfolio Categories: Youth and Adolescents

Support To Reunite, Involve and Value Each Other (STRIVE)

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 […]

Street Smart (US)

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″] […]

Teaching, Raising, and Communicating with Kids (TRACK)

The purpose of this 3-year R01 is to test the preliminary efficacy of an intervention to assist HIV-infected mothers to disclose their serostatus to their young (age 6 – 12 year old), well children. The basis for development of this intervention is work from two R01s (MH # 5R01MH057207, currently Yr. 09) designed to longitudinally […]

CLEAR Uganda; SUUBI Project

Choosing Life Empowerment Action Results is a behavioral change research project being implemented by Uganda Youth development Link (UYDEL) in collaboration with support from University of California, Los-Angeles. It is a result project known as CLEAR tried in the USA in the cities of Los Angeles and New York by the Center for Community Health […]

Choosing Life: Empowerment, Action, Results! (CLEAR) for Comprehensive Risk Counseling and Services (CRCS)

CLEAR-CRCS is an evidence based HIV prevention and health promotion intervention developed for people living with HIV enrolled in Comprehensive Risk Counseling and Services (CRCS). It is a client-centered program delivered one-on-one with clients who are having difficulty initiating or sustaining behaviors that prevent HIV transmission and reinfection. The program teaches clients cognitive-behavioral strategies to […]

Youth LIGHT

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. […]