Recorded presentation

Susan Ringler Cerniglia, MPH and Magdalena Hernandez, CHW. Migrant Health Promotion, 224 West Michigan Avenue, Saline, MI 48176, 734-944-0244, sringler@migranthealth.org

How do Community Health Worker programs reach multiple generations with a powerful health message? In “HIV Knows No Age,” a Community Health Worker and an HIV Program Director from Migrant Health Promotion will present Protégete HIV Border Health, an innovative program that reaches adolescents, parents, and families with strong, consistent, age-appropriate HIV prevention messages. Working together, adult and adolescent Community Health Workers meet with youth, parents, and families to share basic information on HIV and AIDS, to present a theater performance, and to facilitate intergenerational discussions in an open and safe environment. Simultaneously, adult Community Health Workers reach out to their peers in farmworker and border communities to spread information and provide confidential or anonymous testing while their adolescent counterparts participating in an interactive theater troupe educate their peers in community high schools, social service organizations, and popular teen meeting places. Protégete adult and adolescent Community Health Workers reach two thousand individuals with culturally, linguistically, and age-appropriate HIV prevention messages each year. Participants will leave this interactive and dynamic session with ideas on how to address multiple audiences within their own community-based programs.

Learning Objectives:

• 1. Participants will learn about a unique program in which adult and teen Community Health Workers reach their respective peers with HIV prevention messages using a variety of age-appropriate techniques.
• 2. Participants will develop ideas necessary to adapt alternative modes of information dissemination targeted to different age groups in their own communities.

Keywords: Community Health Promoters, HIV/AIDS

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

Recorded presentation