Projects

African American Prevention Intervention Network (APIN )
The African American Prevention Intervention Network (APIN) is a project designed to assist African-American-serving community-based (CBOs) organizations, health departments and health department-funded CBOs with adaptation, implementation, quality assurance and evaluation of effective HIV prevention interventions through the Southern Prevention Intervention Center (S-PIC) and the Youths, Adolescents and Young Adults (YAYA) Center. Specifically, S-PIC focuses on high-risk seronegative and HIV-positive racial/ethnic minority individuals in the southern region of the United States, while YAYA focuses on youths in non-school settings including lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and questioning youths throughout the United States and its territories. The APIN builds capacity among CBOs and health departments through a variety of delivery mechanisms including: information transfer, skills-building, technical services, technical consultation and technology transfer.

Delta Health Initiative HIV/AIDS Prevention Project
Delta Health Initiative HIV/AIDS Prevention Project is funded by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration through the Delta Health Alliance to provide HIV/AIDS prevention education to community-based organizations that provide HIV/AIDS prevention care and treatment services in the Mississippi Delta.

The project serves the following counties:  Bolivar, Coahoma, Carroll, DeSoto, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Panola, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tunica, Washington, Warren and Yazoo, and offers training to community-based organizations that will increase their capacity to operate more efficiently, improve their organizational infrastructure and train staff to implement effective HIV/AIDS prevention programs.

Training is offered on HIV 101, Small Group Facilitation for Youth and the following HIV/AIDS prevention behavioral interventions: Sisters Informing Sisters about Topics on AIDS (SISTA) and Video Opportunities for Innovative Condom Education and Safer Sex (VOICES/VOICES)

These are programs proven to be effective in reducing the acquisition and transmission of HIV/AIDS and are approved for use by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Jackson Teen Seat Belt Coalition
The purpose of the Jackson Teen Seat Belt Coalition is to bring together individuals, organizations, companies, and governmental agencies interested in supporting the increase in knowledge, awareness, and usage of seat belts by teens in Jackson, Mississippi. Coalition members will share information and ideas, get involved in public education, and community outreach activities, and distribute and disseminate informational materials to their constituent groups.

Metro Jackson Community Prevention Coalition
MJCPC was formed in 1995 under the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) Community Prevention initiative. The Coalition is an expansion of an earlier CSAP five-year Community Partnership initiative "Jackson Takes A Stand Community Partnership". Currently, MJCPC is funded by the Mississippi Department of Mental Health.

Students Involved in Prevention (SIP)
Mississippi Urban Research Center at Jackson State University has been funded by the Mississippi State Department of Health, through the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to implement the Real AIDS Prevention Project (RAPP) on three historically black college and university campuses: Jackson State University, Alcorn State University and Tougaloo College.  RAPP is an evidenced-based behavioral intervention designed to help sexually active heterosexual women and their male partners reduce their risk of HIV infection.  JSU MURC is implementing RAPP via its Students Involved in Prevention (SIP) Project.