AIDS Foundation Houston Inc.

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Nov 12, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.0

Gross Receipts

$6,087,116

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Prevention ServicesProject Vibe is a comprehensive youth program that provides pediatric drop-in centers, outreach, transportation, and case management for youth living with HIV. Pediatric drop-in centers at Thomas Street Clinic and Bering Dental Center provide childcare while parents, guardians, or custodians have medical appointments. Youth outreach includes formal and informal, individual and group-level interventions, education, and skills training to increase the number of HIV+ youth who enter the HIV care system for ongoing healthcare and support services. AFH follows outreach with case management providing family-centered, developmentally appropriate case management and transportation services to adolescents with HIV/AIDS.Popular Opinion Leader is a three-session, group-level intervention that decreases the number of new infections by enlisting and training key community leaders to encourage safer sexual norms and behaviors within their social networks through conversations about risk reduction and being a role model for low-risk behavior.Focus on Youth is an eight-session, group-level intervention that uses fun interactive activities to give youth and their parents the skills and knowledge they need to protect themselves from HIV and other STDs. This program includes a 90-minute parental monitoring session with the parent and child.Counseling, Testing, and Referral provides HIV and syphilis testing services to at-risk target populations and within specific zip codes.Major Testing Events Houston Splash/Hip Hop for HIV Awareness is a structural intervention that provides group-level education and skills training as well as individual testing counseling and referral services. It is the nations largest testing event.Project START is a six-session, individual-level intervention that provides HIV, STD, and hepatitis risk reduction programming for people returning to the community after incarceration. The program is designed to help individuals identify current and/or past high-risk behaviors and develop individualized, step-by-step solutions that help them reduce these behaviors.Get Started is an individual one or two-session intervention that connects HIV+ minorities recently released from prison to the Texas HIV Medication Program.Project Wall Talk is a community-level, peer-based HIV, STD, tuberculosis, and hepatitis prevention education program that provides health education training to incarcerated offenders who then share the information with their peers helping them make informed decisions about their behaviors.VOICES/VOCES is a single-session, group-level intervention that uses video and role-playing to increase condom use and safer sex negotiation skills among African American and Hispanic heterosexual men and women, and men who have sex with men.The T.R.U.T.H. Project is a community-level intervention that addresses HIV prevention education through risk topics including abuse, stigma, bullying, and discrimination using different performance art forms. This program also provides counseling, testing, and referral services for HIV and syphilis.

Activity 3

Volunteer ServicesCamp Hope began in July 1996 as the first camp designed specifically for children ages 7-15 with HIV/AIDS in Texas. Since its inaugural year, the camp has expanded from a three-day summer pilot program for 22 Houston-area children to a full-week program that has served more than 1,800 participants in the last 18 years.The Teen Leadership Forum serves youth ages 16-19 who are living with HIV/AIDS but aging out of traditional summer camp programs. The Teen Leadership Forum is held on a college campus and involves teens in discussing topics such as continuing education, career options, dating, intimacy, and disclosure issues.The Red Ribbon Toy Drive is a collaboration with local medical and social service providers that collects more than 6,600 toys during the holidays for 1,200 infected or affected children.

Filer

EIN

76-0073661