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Find out how best to develop HIV prevention programs that work
Community Collaborative Partnerships: The Foundation for HIV Prevention Research Efforts is a must read for anyone interested in developing prevention programs within high-risk urban environments. Illustrative case studies, quality research, revealing personal stories, and helpful tables and figures provide valuable insights on innovative ways to partner in the prevention of the spread of HIV in youths. Leading experts in the field offer practical strategies to dissolve the distrust individuals in a community hold for researchers not a part of that community, fostering an effective collaboration to deal with problems. The book also describes ways to go beyond the United States' model to reveal how to replicate the same dynamic relationships in international communities.
Active participation with the community and families has been found to be vital for the success of HIV/AIDS prevention efforts. Community Collaborative Partnerships: The Foundation for HIV Prevention Research Efforts solves the common problem of forcing ineffective program models onto an unreceptive community. Program developers get the necessary tools to develop relationships and cultivate substantive input from those in the community to help ensure better program results. The research here is up-to-date, and the suggestions invaluable.
Topics in Community Collaborative Partnerships: The Foundation for HIV Prevention Research Efforts include:
the role of parenting in mental health and HIV risk
research findings about frequency of sexual intercourse among adolescents
racial socialization and family role in HIV knowledge
family influences on exposure to situations of sexual possibility
preadolescent risk behavior influence on parental monitoring
strategies for collaboration between community and academic HIV prevention researchers
involving urban parents as collaborators in HIV prevention research
motivatorsand barriersto participation of minority families in a prevention program
transferring a university-led HIV prevention program to the community
Trinidad and Tobago HIV/AIDS prevention using a family-based program
and much more!
Community Collaborative Partnerships: The Foundation for HIV Prevention Research Efforts is valuable reading for researchers, program developers, community-based organizations, public policy/advocacy organizations, community organizers, educators, and students in the fields of social work, public health, public administration, and community medicine.
Contents
* PART I
* Overview of Community Collaborative Partnerships and Empirical Findings: The Foundation for Youth HIV Prevention (Roberta L. Paikoff, Dorian E. Traube, and Mary M. McKay)
* Mental Health and HIV Risk Among African American Adolescents: The Role of Parenting (Marina Tolou-Shams, Roberta L. Paikoff, David J. McKirnan, and Grayson N. Holmbeck)
* Individual Growth Curves of Frequency of Sexual Intercourse Among Urban, Adolescent, African American Youth: Results from the CHAMP Basic Study (Christian DeLucia, Roberta L. Paikoff, and Grayson N. Holmbeck)
* Understanding African American Youth HIV Knowledge: Exploring the Role of Racial Socialization and Family Communication About “Hard to Talk About Topics” (Mary M. McKay, William M. Bannon, Jr., James Rodriguez, and Kelly Taber Chasse)
* Urban African American Pre-Adolescent Social Problem Solving Skills: Family Influences and Association with Exposure to Situations of Sexual Possibility (Dorian E. Traube, Kelly Taber Chasse, Mary M. McKay, Anjali M. Bhorade, Roberta L. Paikoff, and Stacie D. Young)
* Social Support for African American Low-Income Parents: The Influence of Preadolescents' Risk Behavior and Support Role on Parental Monitoring and Child Outcomes (Scott Miller, Mary M. McKay, and Donna Baptiste)
* Creating Mechanisms for Meaningful Collaboration Between Members of Urban Communities and University-Based HIV Prevention Researchers (Mary M. McKay, Richard Hibbert, Rita Lawrence, Ana Miranda, Roberta L. Paikoff, Carl C. Bell, Sybil Madison-Boyd, Donna Baptiste, Doris Coleman, Rogério M. Pinto, and William M. Bannon, Jr.)
* Understanding Motivators and Challenges to Involving Urban Parents as Collaborators in HIV Prevention Research Efforts (Mary M. McKay, Rogério M. Pinto, William M. Bannon, Jr., and Vincent Guilamo-Ramos)
* Motivators and Barriers to Participation of Ethnic Minority Families in a Family-Based HIV Prevention Program (Rogério M. Pinto, Mary M. McKay, Donna Baptiste, Carl C. Bell, Sybil Madison-Boyd, Roberta L. Paikoff, Marla Wilson, and Daisy Phillips)
* Family-Based HIV Preventive Intervention: Child Level Results from the CHAMP Family Program (Cami K. McBride, Donna Baptiste, Dorian E. Traube, Roberta L. Paikoff, Sybil Madison-Boyd, Doris Coleman, Carl C. Bell, Ida Coleman, and Mary M. McKay)
* Addressing Urban African American Youth Externalizing and Social Problem Behavioral Difficulties in a Family Oriented Prevention Project (William M. Bannon, Jr. and Mary M. McKay)
* PART II
* A Commentary on the Triadic Theory of Influence as a Guide for Adapting HIV Prevention Programs for New Contexts and Populations: The CHAMP-South Africa Story (Carl C. Bell, Arvin Bhana, Mary McKernan McKay, and Inge Petersen)
* Transferring a University-Led HIV/AIDS Prevention Initiative to a Community Agency (Donna Baptiste, Dara Blachman, Elise Cappella, Donald Dew, Karen Dixon, Carl C. Bell, Doris Coleman, Ida Coleman, Bridgette Leachman, LaDora McKinney, Roberta L. Paikoff, Lindyann Wright, Sybil Madison-Boyd, and Mary M. McKay)
* Understanding the African-American Research Experience (KAARE): Implications for HIV Prevention (Dara Kerkorian, Dorian E. Traube, and Mary M. McKay)
* Voices from the Community: Key Ingredients for Community Collaboration (Lydia M. Franco, Mary M. McKay, Ana Miranda, Nealdow Chambers, Angela Paulino, and Rita Lawrence)
* Preventing HIV/AIDS Among Trinidad and Tobago Teens Using a Family-Based Program: Preliminary Outcomes (Donna R. Baptiste, Dexter R. Voisin, Cheryl Smithgall, Dona Da Costa Martinez, and Gabrielle Henderson)
* Adapting a Family-Based HIV Prevention Program for HIV-Infected Preadolescents and Their Families: Youth, Families and Health Care Providers Coming Together to Address Complex Needs (Mary M. McKay, Megan Block, Claude Mellins, Dorian E. Traube, Elizabeth Brackis-Cott, Desiree Minott, Claudia Miranda, Jennifer Petter
