The document summarizes efforts to implement the SIHLE (Sistas Informing Healing Living Empowering) program in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The program aims to provide an HIV/AIDS sexual risk behavior intervention for at-risk adolescent females. Organizers set a date and location for the intervention, contacted local youth programs, and informed clients of partner organization Hyacinth about SIHLE. A flyer was created and distributed on social media to recruit participants. Five potential peer facilitators were identified from among Hyacinth clients. A preliminary session served as a pre-test for the full intervention planned for August.

1. SIHLE in New Brunswick
Cindy Krampah
Deloris Dockrey, MPH, Director of Community Organizing
Set a date for
the
intervention
Chose a
location
Contacted
youth
programs
Spoke to
Hyacinth
clients about
SIHLE
Created a
flyer
Sent out flyer
to
organizations
Posted flyer
on social
networks
Purpose
Significance
Methodology Outcomes
Evaluations
Acknowledgments
• To recruit at risk adolescent
females to implement an
HIV/AIDS sexual risks behavior
intervention program in New
Brunswick.
• New Brunswick needs non-
abstinence based programs.
• In 2012, women accounted for
25.5% of the adult/adolescent
HIV/AIDS diagnoses in New Jersey.
• Women of color, particularly
African Americans, represent the
majority of the infections among
women.
• Fifteen new agencies were
identified
• Five Hyacinth clients were
informed about SIHLE at a
meeting
• Seven (47%) of those contacted
responded with interest and
questions about SIHLE
• Two potential peer facilitators
were recruited
• A recent SIHLE session in
Somerset with five participants
served as a preliminary pre-test
of the August meeting
• Pretest and posttest are
administered to test knowledge
on HIV and its risk factors.
• Special thank you to Deloris
Dockrey, Tyeisha Adams, and the
rest of the staff at Hyacinth AIDS
Foundation.
http://www.forharriet.com/2016/03/why-black-girls-need-black-
girlfriends.html#axzz4G5m9BiDm
https://effectiveinterventions.cdc.gov/docs/default-source/silhe-
docs/SIHLE_M_E_Field_Guide_4_5_10-1.pdf?sfvrsn=0