Girls 4 HOPE

Download 2007-2008 application materials here.

Girls 4 HOPE (Health Opportunities, Prevention, and Education) builds the capacity of community-based organizations to initiate and improve HIV prevention programs for African American and Latina teen girls (13-18 years old) and their parents.

Through the Girls 4 HOPE program, AIDS Alliance works with community-based organizations that serve African American and Latina teen girls who are at high risk for HIV infection. We offer a comprehensive program of training and technical assistance tailored to mutually identified needs and an agreed upon individualized capacity building plan.

GIRLS 4 HOPE services are based on well-researched programs and promising strategies that have been found to help African American and Latina teen girls do the following:

• develop the knowledge and skills they need to make life-long decisions about their sexual health;
  
  
• avoid behaviors that place them at risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections; and
  
  
• make healthy choices that promote their overall health and well-being.

Through GIRLS 4 HOPE, AIDS Alliance helps community based organizations connect parenting adults with teen girls to build strong, culturally and linguistically youth-centered HIV prevention programs. Girls 4 HOPE services are provided free of charge to eligible community-based organizations. For more information, call or email Ximena Marquez at 202-785-3564, ext. 14.

GIRLS 4 HOPE is funded by a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health, cooperative agreement # 5U58DP000397-02.