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Staten Island AIDS Task Force EDUCATION & OUTREACH DEPARTMENT | |
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Staten Island AIDS Task Force EDUCATION & OUTREACH DEPARTMENT | |
Located at 25 Hyatt Street in St. George, Staten Island
Phone # 718-448-8802
SERVICES
- HIV prevention and treatment education.
- Outreach tabling for community events.
- Presentations for community organizations.
- Safer sex houseparties.
- Risk reduction workshops and discussion groups.
- Technical assistance to other service providers.
- Volunteer training.
- Crisis intervention and referrals for walk-ins.
- Condoms, latex dams, and written information distributed.
- HIV Resource Room.
PEER EDUCATION PROGRAMS
HAPEN - (HIV/AIDS Parent Education Network)
- People in parental positions are provided training and support to present “rap” groups and speak on HIV education in the schools. How to talk to your children about HIV, and information on the public school HIV/AIDS curriculum.
EAGLE - (Education on AIDS in a Gay and Lesbian Environment)
- Gay men and women are trained to staff outreach tables, provide basic HIV information presentations, assist staff with anti-homophobia workshops, facilitate discussion groups and safer sex workshops, and engage in street education along the beaches, parks and gay clubs and social organizations.
YOUTH TASK FORCE ON AIDS PREVENTION
- Teens form public and private high schools on Staten Island are trained as peer educators to staff the storefront talking to teens who come in for information relating to safer sex and sexuality issues during assigned hours. The teems provide presentations and so street ourteach around high schools and table events where teens are the target group.
- Currently operating at Arthur Kill Correctional Facility and in 1997 in the general Staten Island community. This program provides training as a peer educator and outreach worker with the target group being folks with a substance abuse and/or a prison history. Peer Workers currently provide presentations to fellow inmates, one to one education and referrals for pre-release planning sevices and support groups for HIV positive people.
- A multi-media resource room on HIV/AIDS and related issues for people with HIV, people affected by HIV, professionals, and the general public. Vertical files contain extensive and up-to-date information on a variety of HIV-related issues including treatment education. Also available are training materials, directories, reports, an internet station, books, and a large collection of videos. Books and videos are for loan.
- Listings of books, videos, and other materials.
- Requests for information, and for answers to your questions, please send e-mail to siatf@aidsnyc.org. Or you can call the Resource Room at 718-448-8802. Hours are M. T. & Th. 1:30PM to 9PM, W. & F. 10AM to 6PM.
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