Erica Roggeveen Byrne
Prevention & Health Education Program Director

Erica Roggeveen Byrne serves as the Program Director for Prevention & Health Education.  As Program Director, Ms. Roggeveen Byrne oversees the HIV Prevention Services Unit and the Latino Faith Partnership for Prevention and Treatment (LFPPT).  This new initiative, beginning in October 2007, brings together faith-based outreach sites and evidence-based interventions to provide culturally competent services to Latino substance abusers.  Services provided include faith-based outreach, HIV/STD counseling and testing, pastoral counseling, substance abuse outpatient treatment and relapse prevention, case management, and risk reduction interventions. 

Erica Roggeveen Byrne joined the staff of Latino Community Services in September 2005 as Program Coordinator for HIV Prevention Services. In this capacity, she supervised the clinic where HIV, STD and Hepatitis C screenings are performed; she also coordinated HIV prevention programs such as group level and individual level interventions, community outreach and educational presentations.

Ms. Roggeveen Byrne is a native of the Hartford area, graduating from Conard High School in 1999. She attended Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and received a bachelor’s in Political Science in 2003. Ms. Roggeveen Byrne then completed her master’s degree in Latin American Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans, focusing on the development of HIV prevention programs for heterosexual men in El Salvador.