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Re-Imagining HIV/Substance Abuse Prevention for African-American/Black Young Men in Urban Communities

Re-Imagining HIV/Substance Abuse Prevention for African-American/Black Young Men in Urban Communities. Allen Kwabena Frimpong People for the American Way:Young People For Leadership Academy Fellow Brick Rebuilding, Project Coordinator at the Harm Reduction Coalition.

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Re-Imagining HIV/Substance Abuse Prevention for African-American/Black Young Men in Urban Communities

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  1. Re-Imagining HIV/Substance Abuse Prevention for African-American/Black Young Men in Urban Communities Allen Kwabena Frimpong People for the American Way:Young People For Leadership Academy Fellow Brick Rebuilding, Project Coordinator at the Harm Reduction Coalition

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  3. Societal factors and its influence on at-risk youth of color • Formative survey research ( 4 focus groups) was conducted in Newark, NJ in the Fall of 2007 - 39 participants (23 male, 16 female) Predominantly African-American/Black and Latino participants, 12-18 years old. • Focus groups were done to create a harm reduction based prevention intervention program for urban youth of color in Newark titled, Brick Rebuilding to: • Identify feelings and attitudes about problems in the participants’ community. • Observe how feelings and attitudes about social problems affect drug use in a young person’s life. • Point out what motivates participants to engage in sexual practices. • Look at how young peoples’ motivational factors may place them at risk when engaging in unsafe sexual practices. • Find out what will make youth invest more in their own personal safety and well-being.

  4. Taking a look at African-African/Black Men in the Juvenile System:Bethany Cares, A Case Study • Bethany Cares is a program of Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, NJ that works with Essex County Residential Correctional House as a re-entry program. • This program was one of the focus groups for the Brick Rebuilding project It included ten predominantly African-American/Black young men ages 16-18. • Before the focus group was conducted. A survey was taken to find out the number of participants who were sexually active and/or had participated in drug use to help inform the discussion.

  5. Influencing Factors for at-risk behavior in young Black men

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