Street Smart: Reducing HIV Risk Among Runaway and Homeless Youths

Program Type: Evidence Based Practice - Programs formally evaluated to be effective, sometimes called "Best Practices", that can be replicated and implemented, even with modifications in other settings

Description:
Street Smart is a multisession, skills-building program designed to help groups of runaway youth reduce unprotected sex, number of sex partners, and substance use. The program is based on social learning theory, which describes the relationship between behavior change and a person’s beliefs that he/she has the ability to change a behavior and that changing that behavior will produce a specific result.

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Health Indicator(s):
Infectious Disease, HIV/AIDS

Service Area:
Nationwide

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URL: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/projects/rep/runaway.htm

Name: Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
Site or Location Name: Street Smart: Reducing HIV Risk Among Runaway and Homeless Youths
Address:
10920 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 350
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Email:
Phone: (310) 794-8278