City Minority Grant
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has a contract from the City of Dallas to administer the Minority AIDS Education Program, designed to meet the increasing needs of several geographic areas in Dallas where there is an absence of HIV/AIDS street outreach and an increasing incidence of sexually transmitted diseases.
The program consists of the following four components:
1. Small Group/Peer Intervention- the staff conducts small group educational interventions for minority audiences at high risk for HIV/STD infections.
2. One-On-One Outreach- The staff conducts one-on-one outreach with individuals who are at high risk for HIV/STD infections.
3. Material Distribution- The staff distributes information to the public during small group interventions and one-on-one outreach.
4. Community Events- The staff prepares exhibits, materials, and presentations for various community events, such as health fairs, church/civic events, and school events.
Community PROMISE
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas was funded by the Texas Department of State Health Services to implement this intervention with a focus on targeting African-American men who have sex with other men. To find out more about the Community PROMISE intervention, please visit our interventions page or to find out about upcoming trainings on Community PROMISE please visit our Dallas STD/HIV Behavioral Intervention Training Center.
Dallas Family Access Network (D-FAN)
The Dallas Family Access Network is a coalition of 13 medical care and social service agencies that promotes a system of care for HIV positive clients and those affected by HIV. This collaborative effort began as a pediatric health care demonstration project funded in 1989 by the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health. Partners of Dallas Fan include:
AIDS Arms
AIDS Interfaith Network (AIN)
Betty Ford 5-Star Kids
Child and Family Guidance Centers (CFG)
Children's Medical Center of Dallas (CMC)
Legacy Counseling Center
Parkland Health and Hospital System (PMH)
Rainbow Days
Urban Intertribal Center
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Visiting Nurses Association (VNA)
Welcome House
Out-of-Care Project
The Out-of-Care Project is a collaboration between the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (UTSW) and Parkland Health and Hospital System (Parkland) to facilitate access or re-access to medical and/or social services for HIV positive clients who have fallen out of the continuum of care.
The goals of the program are:
1. To provide HIV positive test results to persons who did not return to Parkland for results through their regular follow-up system.
2. To facilitate appointments for HIV positive persons who have not kept initial appointments or have dropped out-of-care for at least six months.
3. To provide Parkland with information on barriers to access or re-access for HIV positive persons, with a copy of this information provided to the City of Dallas.
Parkland staff identifies patients for this service through its computerized patient tracking program, Lost-to Care Database. The patients are then contacted by UT Southwestern staff through telephone and mail contacts, and through all other means until successful contact is made or all leads are exhausted. Once a patient is located, he/she is engaged in a discussion of his/her experience with the services and the reasons/barriers to returning for care. Appointments are made and tracked.
Youth Angle
The Dallas Family Access Network (Dallas Fan), a 14 year program within the Department of General Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center of Dallas realized that services were needed specifically for perinatally infected youth aging out of the pediatric care setting and for newly identified HIV behaviorally infected youth. Therefore, Youth Angle was created under the Ryan White Title IV Youth Initiative in 2001. It was designed as a collaborative model to coordinate medical and social service programs with an intent to provide a more streamlined system of care for HIV infected youth ages 13-24. The following services are provided through Youth Angle: case finding, primary medical care, OB/GYN care, social services, substance abuse counseling, support groups, life-skills training, formal linkages for outreach with the public school system and faith-based organizations.
More recently, the following strategies were implemented in 2002 to meet the challenges identified:
1. The Youth Angle Implementation Team ( the "I" team) was created to conduct case finding throughout the network;
2. The "I" team targets communities with the highest STD rates and contacts existing youth programs serving in those areas to discuss the rising problem of STD's which is known to have a close correlation with HIV infection.
