Prevention Services

 

 

 

 

 

 

Latino Community Services offers a variety of HIV Prevention Programs for people at-risk of HIV infection.  These programs target substance users as well as people who have high-risk sexual relationships.  Many of the Prevention Programs offered by LCS staff are part of the "Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions" Project, funded by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.

 

Please read below for brief descriptions of each program:

  

Safety Counts
"Safety Counts" is a four-month harm reduction program for active drug users. This program offers two group sessions, an individual counseling session, and opportunities for social events as clients develop their own goals for reducing their risk for HIV and Hepatitis C.

 

Eligibility:
Clients must be active drug users (meaning they have used drugs in the past 90 days, not including alcohol or methadone)

 

How to join or refer a client:
Contact Edda Hernandez at 296-6400, Ext. 224 or ehernandez@lcs-ct.org

 

Session schedule:
Contact Edda Hernandez.  Sessions are held in Spanish.

  

VOICES/VOCES
"VOICES/VOCES" is a single session video-based HIV/STD prevention workshop designed to encourage condom use and improve condom negotiation skills. Sessions are held in small groups of peers that are gender-specific.

 

Eligibility:
All heterosexual Latino and Latina males and females are encouraged to attend.

 

How to join:
Contact Melissa Torres at 296-6400 ext. 233 ormtorres@lcs-ct.org

 

Contact Melissa Torres for more information.

 

Spiritual Self-Schema (3-S) Therapy is a manual-guided intervention for increasing motivation for HIV prevention that integrates a cognitive model of self within a Buddhist framework suitable for people of all faiths.  3-S Therapy is based on the premise that motivation for HIV prevention can be increased by drawing upon clients’ spiritual beliefs and religious faith, and by strengthening a self-schema that is fundamentally incompatible with drug use and other HIV risk behavior.

 

Hispanic injection drug users (IDU) who have completed an in-patient drug treatment program.

 

Contact Melissa Torres at (860) 296-6400 x233 or mtorres@lcs-ct.org

 

Session schedule:
Wednesdays at 10am.  Sessions are held in Spanish.

 

The Latino Faith Partnership for Prevention & Treatment offers a variety of services to substance using Latinos in four cities - Hartford, East Hartford, New Britain and Willimantic - with faith-based outreach teams, pastoral counseling, HIV/STD testing, case management, outpatient treatment and recovery support, and risk reduction interventions.

The faith-based partners for this initiative are Christian Actitivies Council, St. Francis Hospital Clinical Pastoral Counseling Training, and Corban Group.

 

Sites are located at:

 

Willimantic Site
888 Main Street, Willimantic

 

For more information, please contact:

Lisette Cobb, LFPPT Coordinator at (860) 296-6400 ext. 230 or lcobb@lcs-ct.org or

Adaisa Jusino-Ramos, Program Assistant at (860) 296-6400 ext. 229, ajramos@lcs-ct.org