Archival Content: 1999-2005

Background > Outreach Program Models

Going To Clients

This outreach model is used when outreach workers, health educators, or peers go into local neighborhoods and work directly with people at high-risk. These encounters take place in many different places: the streets, mobile HIV prevention vans, and places where people congregate, such as parks, bars, bathhouses, housing projects, laundromats, adult book stores, shooting galleries, or crack houses.

A number of agencies, organizations, and community-based groups, have developed successful outreach models in which workers go out to individuals. The following models are just a sample of available resources, but they provide useful guidance and insights:

• NIDA Community-Based Outreach Model: A Manual to Reduce the Risk of HIV and Other Blood-Borne Infections in Drug Users
• NDRI Center for AIDS Outreach and Prevention (AOP)
• Peer-Driven Intervention (PDI)

For examples of the ways diverse communities around the country have successfully implemented outreach programs, see the United States Conference of Mayors 2001 report HIV Prevention and Outreach Strategies.

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