Community Prevention Team

The Community Prevention's team is where the rubber hits the road for HIV prevention. The team works to support community prevention efforts and to build community capacity and collaborations. The activities of the Community Prevention's team directly impacts communities. The Community Prevention’s team has the lead on community planning, community mobilization initiatives, media campaigns, educational materials review, contracts, faith, and special projects. Some team highlights include: the WeMakeTheChange.com site, Sistas Organizing to Survive (S.O.S.) mobilization initiative, Native American HIV/AIDS Advisory Group, and Florida's Business Response to AIDS

We Make The Change

In 1999, The Florida Department of Health launched We Make The Change - a statewide campaign designed to increase the awareness of HIV/AIDS and its impact in Florida's minority communities. With the campaign, the Florida Department of Health hopes to inform and educate Florida's minority communities - including African-American, Hispanic and Haitian/Caribbean communities - about prevention programs and services throughout Florida that can help us fight the spread of HIV. We Make The Change includes television, radio, outdoor advertising and print.

Stop the Spread

 The Florida Department of Health has partnered with various community testing providers in eleven Florida counties that are disproportionately affected by HIV in African-American communities. For more information regarding this program please visit www.stopthespread.com

Hispanic AIDS Awareness Program

Since 1988, Hispanic AIDS Awareness Program (HAAP) has served as Florida’s official education, training, outreach and information vehicle to raise awareness about the threat of HIV/AIDS in the Hispanic and Spanish speaking communities of South and Central Florida. Sponsored by EMS Resources, Inc and the Florida Department of Health, HAAP utilizes the media as its core source for information distribution. Incorporating the theory and practice in social marketing, the program designs innovative information materials; produces training videos, radio and television programs and Public Service Announcements (PSAs) that incorporate the images, language and cultural icons relevant to the Hispanic population. Its outreach efforts include a trilingual informational website; community presentations and a multicultural sensitivity training session for health care providers. For more information visit www.emservices.com
Sistas Organizing to Survive

Business Response to AIDS/Labor Response to AIDS (BRTA/LRTA)
BRTA/LRTA programs help businesses and labor organizations respond to  AIDS in the workplace and the community. These programs are based on building partnerships among businesses, labor unions, health departments, community-based organizations and government agencies to promote the development of compreshensive HIV/AIDS programs. For more information on BRTA/LRTA contact Prevention Section

Community Mobilization
Community Mobilization is a process of engaging communities to identify community priorities, resources, needs, and solutions in such a way as to promote representative participation, good governance, accountability, and peaceful change. If your agency or area needs community mobilization assistance please submit a request at Prevention Section

Faith
Our faith-based initiative is not about a single faith; it is inclusive of all denominations. The goals of the faith initiative are to expand opportunities for faith-based organizations to strengthen their capacity to meet the HIV/AIDS needs of Floridians; and to mobilize congregations and communities to respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis regardless of race, ethnicity, or behavior.  If you would like more information regarding faith initiative please contact the prevention section.

Contracts
This section features the Florida Department of Health, Bureau of HIV/AIDS, Prevention Section’s current funding sources, grants, and procurements.

Prevention Planning Group (Community Planning)

Vision
 To prevent and control the spread of HIV and AIDS

Mission
To develop a quality comprehensive HIV prevention plan
In December 1993, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the Supplemental Guidance on HIV Prevention Community Planning for Noncompeting Continuation of Cooperative Agreements for HIV Prevention Projects. The Guidance required that between January and December 1994, the project areas receiving federal HIV prevention funds design and implement a community planning process. In response to this initiative, the Florida Department of Health and community representatives throughout the state decided to convene one statewide group to address community planning, called the Florida HIV/AIDS Community Planning Group (FCPG).

     In January 2004, the FCPG became the Florida Comprehensive Planning Network (FCPN).  The FCPN contains three groups, the Prevention Planning Group (PPG), the Patient Care Planning Group (PCPG), and the Viral Hepatitis Council.