Adolescent Project Index

From 1993 through 1999, The Measurement Group has maintained a research center specializing in evaluation and results dissemination for 10 grantees funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau as Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS). The projects were funded to develop models of HIV/AIDS care for youth.

The following links will take you to individual project resource pages featuring reports, paper abstracts, multimedia presentations and other materials by, and about, each project. Each project was funded in 1994 for a period between two and five years, to develop an innovative model of HIV/AIDS care.

Adolescent Planetree (APT); Walden House, Inc., Adolescent Program - Walden House offers comprehensive treatment services designed to meet the substance abuse, psychiatric, and medical health needs of youth, specifically those identified as HIV-positive.

Bay Area Young Positives, Inc. - BAY Positives is a peer-run, peer-based organization that provides psychosocial services to youth with HIV, with a heavy focus on the development of young people.

"Boston HAPPENS" Program; Children's Hospital Corporation - The "Boston Happens" program provides a network of care for HIV-positive, homeless, and at-risk youth, from street outreach to counseling and testing, to primary care, and HIV specialty care.

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles - The CHLA program links high-risk youth through outreach into HIV testing, HIV risk-harm reduction, and health care services at the Los Angeles Free Clinic.

Health Initiatives for Youth - HIFY is an set of youth-oriented services, resources, and skill-building program that address the need for social and practical HIV services to complement comprehensive healthcare services.

Indiana Youth Access Project (IYAP) - IYAP is a statewide organization that serves youth who identify themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual.

Teenage Access Project; University of Alabama at Birmingham - The Teenage Access Project (TAP) seeks to expand and ensure access to health and support services for disadvantaged, high-risk adolescent and young adult females.

The Measurement Group Evaluation and Dissemination Center - The Measurement Group run the Evaluation and Dissemination Center for these grantees. This web site summarizes those activities.

TOPS Project; Greater Bridgeport Adolescent Pregnancy Program - The Teen Outreach Primary Services (TOPS) Center provides outreach to youth with HIV and high-risk-for-HIV inner-city minority youth, and links them to health care and social services.

University of Minnesota Youth & AIDS Projects (YAP) - Adolescents with HIV are identified through the existing system of mandatory, name-linked reports of HIV cases to the Minnesota Department of Health, which dispatches an Adolescent Early Intervention Specialist to access health needs and link youth with care at YAP.

YouthCare Project - YouthCare provides outreach, referrals, HIV testing, counseling, prevention and early intervention for street-involved, homeless, and sexual minority youth.

The Evaluation and Dissemination Center is supported in part by Grant Number 970153-05-0 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau's (HAB) Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS). The contents of this site are soley the responsibility of The Measurement Group and do not necessarily represent the official views of HRSA or HRSA/HAB's Special Projects of National Significance.

Related Information:

Evaluation and Dissemination Center: Innovative Models of Adolescent HIV/AIDS Care 1993-1998