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Youth Services Growth Spot Drop-In Center (G-Spot) The Growth Spot Drop-In Center is a comprehensive youth outreach program that provides substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention to adolescent African American sexual minorities in Alameda County. The program targets African American youth between the ages of 12 and 24 years old. The objective of the G-Spot program is to reduce substance abuse and high-risk behavior; to increase safer sex practices and healthier lifestyles; and to provide appropriate substance abuse and HIV prevention service through counseling, testing and referrals to substance abuse and HIV treatment services. Once a week, G-Spot has group sessions in the outreach room at CAL-PEP with rotating topics that incorporate the key components of the program. The weekly group sessions help facilitate and sustain behavioral changes that are life enhancing and reduce the change of addiction or infection. These sessions take place on Thursdays from 4 pm to 8 pm. Other Drop-In services are provided and available during regular business hours, Monday – Friday 8:30 am to 5 pm. The key components of the program are:
In addition to weekly sessions, G-Spot offers drop-in services including:
Young Sex Workers Project The Young Sex Workers Project is a prevention outreach project that targets women under the age of twenty-eight who are engaged in street-based sex work and are at high-risk for HIV exposure. The objective is to reduce HIV infection among youth women engaging in street-based sex work through the delivery of culturally competent, population-specific prevention education preventions. Through street and community outreach, women are referred to services and community services in an effort to eliminate barriers to accessing these resources. Additionally, during street outreach, women are referred to CAL-PEP’s mobile unit for HIV testing and counseling. Through counseling, women are taught basic risk and harm reduction techniques and information. Group workshops on health and risk reduction are also held with focus on HIV educational and risk reduction information – i.e. proper condom use, negotiating condom use and other safer sex/safer drug use techniques. The goals of the Young Sex Workers Project are to make direct contact with young women engaged in street-based sex work in order to expose them to prevention information and to increase risk reduction and harm reduction behaviors used among this population. Larkin Street Youth Services Larkin Street Youth Services is an organization in San Francisco that provides homeless youth ages 12-24 with the services they need to move beyond life on the street. CAL-PEP works in coalition with Larkin Street Youth Services as a means to conduct outreach in San Francisco to African American homeless youth between the ages of 12 and 24 years old. CAL-PEP’s objective in working in coalition with Larkin Street Youth Services is to provide referrals to homeless youth to Larkin Street Youth Services and to provide prevention and educational materials to homeless youth in San Francisco. These materials include condoms, lubricant, verbal information offered through workshops, and printed information about STDS, HIV, and drugs. If you would like more information about Larkin Street Youth Services in San Francisco, please visit www.larkinstreetyouth.org.
Research Interventions Brutha’s Project The Brutha’s Project is a research project funded by the University-wide AIDS Research Program (UARP) through the University of California. The purpose of the Brutha’s Project is to determine risk factors among African American men above the age of eighteen who identify as men who have sex with men or do not identify as gay (MSM/NGI). The Brutha’s Project has customized a counseling program, outreach materials, and protocols to extend information and knowledge of HIV/AIDS prevention measures that could lead to harm reduction and changes in unsafe behavior for African American MSM/NGI. The main objectives of the Brutha’s Project are to: 1) Provide a safe, non-judgmental space for confidential discussion of HIV risk and sexuality; 2) Raise men’s awareness of how their specific sexual behaviors can increase the risk for HIV; 3) Guide men in exploring personal reasons for why they engage in secretive, spontaneous sex; 4) Direct men to identify strategies that could improve trust and communication with partners; 5) Assist men in their awareness of cultural and gender norms that might reinforce unsafe sexual practices. The goals of this project are to increase education about HIV/AIDS among African American men and their sexual partners; to increase condom use and other risk reduction behaviors among African American men; and to decrease the number of African American men and women infected with HIV/AIDS.
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