Tuesday, April 29, 2025
4/29/2025
RIGHTS OF EMERGENCE INTO ADULT LIVING: EXPANSION/ENHANCEMENT PROJECT - Rites of Emergence into Adult Living (REAL) targets African-Americans ages 12-17. Low self-concept is an important and unaddressed factor in sexual risk and substance use among African-American adolescents. Project REAL will deliver services to adolescents that provide positive reinforcement that counter self-concept deficiencies. Parental counter-messages of African- American pride and strong group identity can help adolescents shape a positive self concept in spite of these experiences, but many adolescents have lost access to the family and kinship networks that have traditionally provided these positive messages. The Project will provide interventions to 340 annually.The goals of Project RESPECT are to (1) expand treatment, HIV prevention, and continuing care for African-American adolescents and sustain that expansion beyond the end of Project REAL; (2 enhance treatment and HIV prevention services for subpopulations of African-American adolescents who are at increased risk for acquiring and/or transmitting HIV; and (3) enhance medical and psychological continuity of care for African-American adolescents in substance abuse treatment.
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