title: Involving families in an urban HIV preventive intervention: how community collaboration addresses barriers to participation.
abstract: This article addresses the increasing need within urban communities for effective, culturally relevant HIV prevention programs. The recruitment efforts of a family-based prevention program aimed at promoting health and preventing HIV risk exposure in urban, African American fourth and fifth grade children living in a community with high rates of HIV infection is detailed. The program, referred to as the CHAMP (Chicago HIV Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health Project) Family Program, is overseen by a collaborative partnership of community parents, school staff, and university-based researchers (Paikoff & McKay, 1995). The recruitment strategies developed as a result of this community-research collaboration are described. Preliminary results of the project's efforts to reach out to families within the targeted, inner-city community are presented.
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McCormick
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: McKay
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: McKinney
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Paikoff
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bell
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Baptiste
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Coleman
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gillming
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Madison
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Scott
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005190:Family; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014481:United States; D019037:Urban Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*