Contextual community prevention theory

Translation from research to practice faces numerous problems that include replicating effectiveness, fidelity to the protocol and processes, and adaptations to different types of target populations. Working collaboratively with existing service providers can speed up the time for development and can ease the implementation of empirical randomized trials. Contextual community prevention theory is an innovative approach that focuses on changing behaviors of community members by creating a visible institutional presence that draws and pulls the targeted population into the organization's activities and interventions. The result is an institution or organization within the community that provides a new active and dynamic context, engaging its community members into its activities, interventions, and functions. An HIV prevention program developed collaboratively from the ground up for Latino gay/bisexual men is presented. Results from the program evaluation efforts across the years suggest promise for testing its efficacy through a randomized trial. HIV prevention efforts need to develop dynamic support systems within communities where these men have ownership, have control, and feel safe; otherwise HIV infection rates in this population will increase

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• Embedding HIV Mentoring Programs in HIV Research Networks

  Open Access•M Isabel Fernandez, Darrell P Wheeler et al.•AIDS and Behavior•2016

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• Macro-level approaches to HIV prevention among ethnic minority youth

  Guillermo Prado, Michael Lightfoot et al.•American Psychologist•2013

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