Turning Point: L.U.C.H.A.

Grants: $75,000 in 2007

About the Project

To provide support for the launch of the L.U.C.H.A. project, a joint project of Brooklyn Outreach Workers HIV/AIDS Prevention Network and Turning Point. The project will address disparity in access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and counseling in communities of color, with particular emphasis on Latina women. They will use sub zip code data gathered from local community mapping efforts of the Brooklyn Linkage to Care Coalition, and identify at-risk and high-risk Latinas and other women of color in targeted Brooklyn neighborhoods who either do not know their HIV status or are HIV positive but only sporadically linked to care.The project will then deploy a team of 4 bilingual peer educators and a Physician's Assistant to provide outreach and life-enhancing prevention messages as well as direct access to screening, treatment and health care to this vulnerable population in traditional and nontraditional times and places. The goal is to remove the barriers that impede full access to counseling, testing, treatment, and care.