Below is a brief description
of each of the Center’s current and recently completed projects, listed in alphabetical
order. If you wish more detailed information about a specific project,
click on the project name, and a Microsoft Word document will open.
Adolescent
HIV Risk—Social Settings and Prevention Issues
Principal Investigator: Beatrice J. Krauss, Ph.D.
Funder: National
Institute of Mental Health
Brief Description: The social settings where youth develop romantic
relationships are poorly understood. This project describes settings
where youth in the Lower East Side of New York City, a high HIV seroprevalence
neighborhood, meet and socialize, and the peer and relational pressures
operating within those settings, in order to identify the ways in
which those social factors put them at risk for HIV.
Correctional
Case Management at Rikers Island
Principal Investigator: Peter Nwakeze, Ph.D.
Funder: New
York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Brief Description: Data cleaning and data entry for New York City
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene personnel replicating Health
Link with men at Rikers Island.
HIV
Prevention Case Management (PCM) Initiative—Program
Evaluation
Principal Investigator: Beatrice
J. Krauss, Ph.D.
Funder: New
York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
/ Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
Brief Description: Evaluation and technical assistance to 10 community-based
organizations implementing Prevention Case Management (PCM) as an
HIV risk reduction strategy, based upon CDC guidance, for those at
high risk due to substance use or sexual behavior in the context of
other pressing life issues.
Impact
of an HIV Intervention for Adolescent Males Leaving Jail
(REAL MEN)
Principal Investigator: Nicholas Freudenberg, Ph.D.
Funder: National
Institute on Drug Abuse
Brief Description: Evaluation of a jail-community intervention on
mental health, health and other risk domains for young men of color
upon reentry to the community.
Parent/Preadolescent
Training for HIV Prevention—Competing
Continuation (PATH-3)
Principal Investigator: Beatrice J. Krauss, Ph.D.
Funder: National
Institute of Mental Health
Brief Description: Long-term and multi-level follow-up of the impact
of parent health education training on the HIV/hepatitis/STI/unplanned
pregnancy risk behaviors of maturing adolescents.
Positive
and Supportive Caring for People Living with HIV
Co-Principal Investigators: Beatrice J. Krauss, Ph.D./Daniel
B. Rosen, Ph.D.
Funder: Fee-for-Service
Brief Description: The Center conducts fee-for-service anti-stigma
trainings for institutions and community-based organizations who wish
to encourage staff, client or other stakeholder interactions that
promote the health care and mental health of people living with HIV
(PLwHIV) or other illnesses. These trainings can be tailored to those
with clinical or nonclinical expertise, and to focus on local population
needs.
Smoking
Cessation Among Male Chinese-American Restaurant Workers in Flushing,
NY
Principal Investigator: Dee
Burton, Ph.D.
Funder: New
York State Department of Health Tobacco Control Program
Brief Description: A program to promote smoking cessation among male
Chinese-American restaurant workers in Flushing, NY using proactive
telephone counseling and based on Chinese cultural values.
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