Community-based Services - Project Claridad

Project Claridad and the Project Claridad Tool Box

With funding from the Pfizer Foundation’s Southern HIV/AIDS Prevention Initiative, Project Claridad has had programs housed in two Florida farmworker areas, Crescent City and Belle Glade / Pahokee. Claridad has netted multiple results:

Over 30 Spanish-speaking farmworker youth trained as HIV peer educators
Hundreds of face-to-face prevention education contacts
Outreach events in 6 farmworker communities, reaching over 300 directly and 20,000 indirectly
Replication of Claridad in an additional Florida farmworker community
A Claridad Tool Box of bilingual, youth-developed education materials for use in Spanish-speaking communities

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The Project Claridad Tool Box is the result of peer educators survey collection (over 600), survey analysis, outreach and research. All materials are peer developed and community evaluated. The Tool Box has two aspects: educational materials and a brief curriculum, which outlines interactive, popular education tools and activities, to optimize the leadership skills of lay-health workers and community service groups. Topics addressed include:

HIV transmission, testing and prevention
Relationship violence and rape
Stigma and Homophobia
Sexually transmitted diseases
Machismo
Advocacy for persons living with HIV

Project Claridad partners: Putnam County Migrant Education Program, Farmworking Coordinating Council of Palm Beach County and Migrant Education of Alachua County