Saturday, April 26, 2025
4/26/2025
NJCRI ESSHCI Program - The North Jersey Community Research Initiative (NJCRI) to implement a program to strengthen clinic infrastructure and expand access to comprehensive sexual health services in Essex County, NJ. NJCRI will implement Strategies A (Foster Community Engagement and Partnerships), B (Strengthen Clinic Infrastructure and Provision of Sexual Health Services), and C (Clinical services that should be included for Basic and Specialty STD Care). The North Jersey Community Research Initiative (NJCRI) is proposing to implement a program to strengthen clinic infrastructure and expand access to comprehensive sexual health services in Essex County, NJ with a focus on the greater Newark, area. NJCRI is targeting this area because it has a high STI burden and unmet need for STI clinical services. The requested funding will increase NJCRI’s capacity to expand services within its health care center, which offers STI screening and treatment to the priority populations, to offer the full range of basic and specialty STI services; NJCRI is a trusted provider within community offering a comprehensive set of services, and this will ensure clients are able to receive all needed services through a one-stop site. NJCRI will achieve the following outcomes by the end of the period of performance. Short-term: • increased community involvement in clinic-level planning for provision of comprehensive sexual health services, • increased engagement with public health partners addressing the STI epidemic, Intermediate: • Increased community partner collaboration and communication to support provision of comprehensive sexual health services • increased clinic capacity to provide quality comprehensive sexual health services, • increased access to quality, stigma-free STI care and comprehensive sexual health services, especially among priority populations affected by STIs, • improved patient clinic experience, • increased identification of new STIs by NJCRI • increased linkage to public health partners for prevention and care services for co- occurring conditions. Long-term: • Reduced STI and other syndemic related infection • Reduced STI disparities • Increased community, clinic, and public health partner collaborations supporting a syndemic approach
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