Thursday, May 15, 2025
5/15/2025
Project Referral, Education, Access, & Linkage to Care (Project REAL) - Bailey House, Inc.'s (BH) Project Referral, Education, Access, and Linkage to Care (Project REAL) will increase access to and retention in substance use treatment, behavioral health and HIV services among African American and Hispanic men and women (over age 18), including heterosexual, LGBT, and formerly incarcerated individuals, and their partners, who are at-risk of or living with HIV/AIDS and who have substance use and/or mental health disorders. Project REAL will target individuals in the overwhelmingly African American and Hispanic neighborhoods of East and Central Harlem in Manhattan; Hunts Point-Mott Haven and Highbridge-Morrisania in the South Bronx; and Bedford-Stuyvesant/Crown Heights in Central Brooklyn. The economic conditions in these neighborhoods are among the poorest in New York City (NYC). More than 70% of the population is over the age of 18 and just over half are female. Residents have significantly high rates of mental illness and substance use: drug-related and mental health hospitalizations are roughly 1.5-3 times higher compared to NYC overall. Further, approximately 75% of new HIV diagnoses in these neighborhoods in 2013 were among African American and Hispanic individuals, as were a significant portion of new Hepatitis C diagnoses in 2010. In particular, formerly incarcerated populations have much higher rates of HIV prevalence (5.2%) than the general population, and in the proposed service areas formerly incarcerated individuals make up 13%-25% of all adult residents in their respective boroughs.
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