| The Outreach Services Program |
| Outreach Services provides comprehensive HIV risk reduction education to residents in Windham & Tolland Counties. Outreach is conducted in communities in the counties through social service agencies, local school districts and universities, court support services, community referrals and self-referrals. Contacts are made by group level interventions to target populations, HIV+ persons and youth, through the Healthy Relationships and Street Smart interventions. The Outreach Services Program provided HIV counseling & testing services in community locations and our Main Street office to 278 people during the year and had phone contact with an additional 125 people to answer questions about HIV testing. Testing sites include Student Health Services and the Women's Center on the campus of Eastern Connecticut State University, St. Paul's Covenant Soup Kitchen, Windham Public Schools, and local drug treatment facilities. After specific prevention training, staff facilitated intervention groups with 86 participants from Windham County. Community HIV education campaigns were conducted during AIDS Awareness Month and for World AIDS Day, National HIV Testing Day and Youth HIV Awareness Day. The program collaborated with the Generations Family Health Care to run the Adolescent Outreach Project and received funding from the State of CT Office of Policy & Management to extend services in Tolland County for one year. |
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| For more information contact Kathey Fowler at (860)423-4534 ext. 320 or email katherine.fowler@wrccinc.org To schedule an HIV test call (860) 423-4534 |
Provided with permission from the State of Connecticut 8/25/06
