Using a community development approach, a core group of peer educators including youth, women and intravenous drug users, will be trained to carry out prevention work. Training will also be provided to professionals in other health care sectors. Organizational development SIDA-AIDS Moncton will increase the involvement of community groups in the work of the board, provide training for volunteers and board members and increase the numbers of volunteers involved in all programs of the organization. Planned Parenthood Fredericton is a community-based organization committed to promoting and providing comprehensive information on sexuality and reproductive health care in Fredericton and the surrounding area. The organization's aim is provide information about sexuality that is easily accessible and promotes healthy decision making.
Prevention underscores all the organization's work.
The project is designed to reach vulnerable, at-risk women. It will investigate and measure their awareness of HIV infection, develop a comprehensive prevention program to enable them to negotiate safer sex, and document the findings in a workbook for individuals and organizations who work with women. Interviews and questionnaires will be used to evaluate the workbook. The volunteer board of directors comprises 9 to12 youth partners, parents, and representatives of local agencies and the school. Working within a framework of healthy sexuality and risk reduction education, the Teen Health Centre creates an environment where youth are comfortable accessing the information and skills needed to make healthy decisions about themselves and others.