AIDS Partnership California

Individual Level Interventions

Prevention Resources > CA > Individual

AIDS Healthcare Foundation
AIDS Project Los Angeles
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center
CLEAR/CHIPTS, UCLA
Early Intervention Programs/California State Office of AIDS
HIV Transmission Prevention Project/California State Office of AIDS
Minority AIDS Project
Tarzana Treatment Center

AIDS Healthcare Foundation
http://www.aidshealth.org
Target Population: Individuals with HIV and their Partners. AIDS Healthcare Foundation offers prevention services for partners of persons with HIV. For more information, call (323) 860-5200.

AIDS Project Los Angeles Education Department
http://www.apla.org
Target Population: Individuals with HIV and their Partners. The POWER (Positive Wellness & Renewal) Program provides individual and group level education and support to people living with HIV and their partners. Wellness Case Managers and Health Promotion Specialists help clients manage life and HIV more effectively by helping address relationship issues, substance use, individual sexual expression, adherence to HIV medications, and other health and wellness issues. For more information, call (213) 201-1600.

Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center
http://www.apiwellness.org/
Target Population: Asian and Pacific Islander Gay Men and Transgendered Persons. Multi-faceted intervention that includes social support and community-building (monthly theme-based events, annual events), a general health and wellness program (nutrition and exercise information and support), treatment and education workshops (Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced), group psychotherapy (a series of three 6 to 8-week sessions offering support and problem-solving skills), and individual psychotherapy. For more information, call (415) 292-3400.

Choosing Life: Empowerment, Action, Results (CLEAR)
UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services
http://chipts.ucla.edu
Target Population: yout with HIV. Choosing Life: Empowerment, Action, Results (CLEAR), funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, is a project that seeks to learn more about youth living with HIV, their relationships and health, how they cope with problems, and how drug and alcohol use impacts sexual and other risk behaviors that may lead to the transmission of HIV. CLEAR will also assess the cost effectiveness of delivering these interventions so that they may be widely disseminated to HIV/AIDS service providers across the country and around the world. No direct telephone number, e-mail CHIPTS at: chipts@mednet.ucla.edu.

Early Intervention Programs
California State Office of AIDS
Early Intervention Programs (EIP) are located in 35 California counties and is dedicated to prolonging the health and productivity of persons with HIV and interrupting the transmission of HIV. EIP clients receive medical treatment, transmission risk reduction counseling, case management, psychosocial assessment, and health education, delivered in a team-based setting. For more information, contact Carol Russell at (916) 327.6774 or crussell@dhs.ca.gov.

HIV Transmission Prevention Project
California State Office of AIDS
Target Population: Individuals with HIV enrolled in EIP Programs. The HIV Transmission Prevention Project (HTPP) consists of intensive risk reduction counseling to individuals enrolled in Early Intervention Program (EIP) sites who are identified as being at high risk for HIV transmission and who require more than EIP's standard risk reduction interventions to achieve behavior change. For more information, contact Carol Crump at (916) 322-4635 or ccrumpdhs@aol.com

Minority AIDS Project
www.map-usa.org
Target Population: People of Color with HIV. The Goal of MAP is to encourage low-risk behaviors for HIV prevention; and to improve the quality of life and health for those who have HIV/AIDS. For more information, call (323) 936-4949.

Tarzana Treatment Center
http://tarzanatc.com/
Target Population: Individuals with HIV who are in Substance Abuse Treatment. The Tarzana Treatment Center provides prevention services to individuals who have had HIV for less than two years and who are in substance abuse treatment. For more information, call (800) 996-1051.