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MINORITY AIDS INITIATIVE (MAI)

The Southeast CAPT provides technical assistance and training to CSAP’s Minority AIDS Initiatives Grantees from Cohorts 4, 5, and 6. Minority AIDS Initiatives Grantees from Cohorts 4, 5, and 6 will be able to find information of interest to their efforts in this section.

MAI Cohort 4 and 5 Grantees: Minority Substance Abuse Prevention and HIV Prevention Services Program:

The goal of this program is to increase access to substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention programs in areas with hard to reach populations and high incidence rates of substance abuse and HIV infection, such as rural communities, by increasing both the number and quality of prevention programs in traditionally under served areas. This program seeks to increase and sustain the availability of effective, integrated substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention services for women, youth, and other at-risk populations in African-American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Asian-American/Pacific Islander communities which have traditionally been underserved or not served at all. Specifically the program intends to:

• Increase provision of effective, integrated substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention services to more minority youth and adults at-risk for substance abuse and HIV infection.
• Increase the number of community based organizations that provide effective, integrated substance abuse prevention and HIV prevention to minority youth and adults at-risk.
• Increase the capacity of community-based organizations to successfully sustain their integrated prevention services.

MAI Cohort 6: Substance Abuse, HIV, & Hepatitis Prevention for Minority Populations and Minority Reentry Populations in Communities of Color Initiative:

This initiative supports an array of activities to assist grantees in building a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining effective substance abuse prevention and related services. Specifically, the program aims to engage community-level domestic public and private non-profit entities to prevent and reduce the onset of SA, and transmission of HIV and hepatitis among minority populations and minority reentry populations in communities of color disproportionately affected by SA, HIV/AIDS, and/or hepatitis. While grantees have substantial flexibility in designing their grant projects, all are required to base their projects on the five steps of SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to build a service capacity specific to SA, HIV, and hepatitis prevention services.

For additional information visit Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/aa/cdc.htm