Positive prevention and care: a community-led approach - pillar (people with ideas of love, liberty acceptance, and respect), a non-profit community organization in the city of laredo, webb county,…

Positive prevention and care: a community-led approach - pillar (people with ideas of love, liberty acceptance, and respect), a non-profit community organization in the city of laredo, webb county, texas, is seeking funding to implement project positive prevention and care: a community-led approach to provide substance misuse and HIV prevention navigation services targeting primarily minority MSM other high-risk minorities in a semi-rural community. Project positive prevention and care: a community-led approach will execute the work-plan by recruiting, hiring/reassigning and training competent and skillful staff comprised of a project director, lead navigator, two peer support specialists, and a local evaluator. Goals and measurable objectives are: 1) by december 31, 2020 develop and enhance local capacity and mobilize community resources to implement the patient navigator program focused on preventing and reducing risk factors for HIV/viral hepatitis c (HCV) infection and substance misuse and successful linkage to care by using a navigation approach; 2) by august 2020, the AC will develop and implement public messaging and awareness campaigns on the risk of substance misuse among individuals living with HIV and the importance of seeking care and treatment. Messaging should also be developed around risk behaviors and appropriate cautions associated with the risk of HIV transmission; 3) by september 2025, conduct 50 recruitment/outreach contacts a month for the first eight months of the project, for 12-months years 2 - 4, and for 8 months during year five, totaling 2,600 outreach contacts for the life of the project; 4) by september 2025, 1,560 high risk persons (minority MSM or other high-risk minorities) will receive HIV counseling and testing services via personalized cognitive counseling (PCC) for high risk minority MSM's and the foundations intervention for other minority high risk populations; 5) by september 2025, 520 minority msms or other high-risk minorities will complete the basics intervention addressing substance misuse and abuse; and 6) evaluate, analyze, and report on project processes and outcomes as measured by successful collection of gpra, dosage, and other local data. Project positive prevention and care: a community-led approach will utilize the PCC, basics, and the foundations evidence-based interventions and for sees to initiate all direct services by the fourth month of funding. Pillar will implement a thorough evaluation plan including data collection, management, analyses and reporting to track performance and outcome measures.