Research
RESEARCH PROJECTS
U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Special Projects of National Significance: Motivational-Based Outreach for Young Men who have Sex with Men (YMSMs) of Color
Through this grant Horizons Project strives to conduct innovative field and internet outreach to encourage YMSM of color to find out their HIV status and enroll, engage, and maintain in care. A motivational interviewing (MI) strategy is used and evaluated, with extensive MI training to field workers, to encourage at-risk YMSM of color to be counseled and tested for HIV. Traditional peer-outreach will be compared with traditional peer outreach in combination with MI. An evaluation of internet-based outreach to this population will also be conducted. YMSM of color who test positive for HIV are referred to medical care and case management services and those who test negative are referred to Horizons Project Brothers Saving Brothers (BSB) group. This group is a three-session behavioral intervention aimed at reducing HIV infection among young African American men who have sex with men and young bisexual men. If you are a YMSM of color with an unknown HIV status and are interested in participating in this intervention email Dr. Angulique Outlaw at aoutlaw@med.wayne.edu or call her at (313) 745-3218.
For more information, visit the Wayne Sate University Horizon Project’s 2004-2009 SPNS grant.
U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS): Targeted HIV Outreach and Intervention Model Development and Evaluation for Underserved HIV Populations Not in Care
The focus of this project is to enroll and retain youth in the comprehensive continuum of HIV care that is offered by Horizons Project. This continuum of care consists of outreach, advocacy, case management and mental health services, focusing on enrollment and retention of clients. For more information on this project email Dr. Sylvie Naar-King at snaarkin@med.wayne.edu.
For general information, visit the Wayne State University Horizon Project’s 2002-2006 SPNS grant.
Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion, Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resource Emergency (CARE) Act Part A
Part A of the Ryan White CARE Act provides emergency funding to metropolitan areas that are most severely affected by HIV/AIDS. To be eligible for Part A funding an area must have reported at least 2,000 AIDS cases during the previous 5 years and have a population of at least 5,000. The city of Detroit is currently one of fifty-one eligible metropolitan areas receiving Part A funding. Horizons Project Part A funds received from the City of Detroit Health Department are used to provide no cost clinical activities such as primary care, treatment adherence and psychosocial support for uninsured adolescents.
For more information, visit Federal Part A funding and for contact information on the City of Detroit Part A funding visit http://hab.hrsa.gov/programs/t1roster.htm.
Michigan Department of Community Health, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention Section, Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resource Emergency (CARE) Act Part D
Part D of the Ryan CARE Act specifically provides funding for family-centered primary and specialty medical care, support services, and logistical support and coordination for HIV+ women, infants, children, youth, and their families.
Horizons Project provides support services through three JAM sessions per month, consisting of one men’s group, one women’s group and one mixed gender group. The clinical care team leads clients in coming together in these interactive social support groups to discuss various aspects of their lives as well as community activities. Transportation and child care are provided. For information on the JAM sessions email Linda Hyter at lhyter@dmc.org or call her at 313-924-9493.
Part D funding also supported a pilot test of a motivational intervention targeting HIV+ youth for sexually transmitted infections.
For more information, visit Maternal and Child HIV/AIDS Programs in Michigan.
Michigan Department of Community Health, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention Section (HAPIS), Partnerships for Health Grant
It is the yearly objective of the Horizon Project outreach team to provide counseling, testing, and referral services to 175 high risk heterosexuls between the ages of 13 and 24 and 75 MSM between the ages of 13 and 24. There is also a health education and risk reduction portion of this grant, through which the outreach team seeks to provide 4 cycles of the 3-session Brothers Saving Brothers skills building workshop to 25 unduplicated African American young men who have sex with men and 4 cycles of the 5-session SISTA skills building workshop to 30 unduplicated young African American high risk heterosexual females. For more information on Horizons Project local HAPIS objectives please email Kyra Sanders at ksanders@med.wayne.edu or call her at 313-924-8231.
Michigan Department of Community Health also provides funding for the MISTI Project, which is a motivational intervention targeting HIV+ youth for sexually transmitted infections. The purpose of this intervention program is to see if a brief computer program can help HIV+ youth reduce their exposure to and acquisition of (getting) sexually transmitted infections. Clients asked to participate in this study have had a sexually transmitted infection in the last 12 months. For more information on the MISTI project contact. For more information on this project email Dr. Nikki Cockern at scockern@med.wayne.edu or call her at 313-924-8229.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), HIV/AIDS Cohort 5 Services
Horizons Project 180 is a multi component HIV and Substance Abuse prevention program designed to meet the complex needs of youth in detention facilities. Project 180 in collaboration with the Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility will recruit youth to participate in a 2 session motivational intervention targeting risky sexual behaviors and substance use. Participants will simultaneously be offered HIV counseling and testing, a clinical service supported by the Michigan
Department of Community Health. Participants will also participate in group level skill building sessions. The Motivational Interviewing portion of the intervention is designed to boost motivation and self efficacy and provide individualized education. Participants gain mastery through participating in the group level interventions where they will participate in role-plays, group discussion, and behavioral skill exercises. Youth will be followed at 3, 6, 12 months after baseline and be assess for substance use, sexual risk behaviors, attitudes and motivation, self-efficacy, depression, and communication with partners, parents, and caregivers. For more information on the Horizons Project 180 email Monique Green-Jones at mogreen@med.wayne.edu or call her at (313) 966-9763.
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Horizons Project 2006-2007 NOF grant money is being used to provide outreach efforts, HIV testing, medical care for uninsured HIV+ clients, educational resources for clients, and other aspects that allow this program to provide effective services. This money is also used to provide transportation services for clients, which is an essential element in the effective medical care of our clients. The behavioral and service change anticipated for the Horizons Project NOF is an increase in the number of HIV infected youth receiving medical care and attending medical appointments, maintained or decreased viral loads/maintained or increased CD4 counts, decrease in risk behaviors, and an increase in the number of youth receiving yearly preventative vaccinations. For more information on Horizons Project NOF contact
For more information visit Detroit NOF.