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Center for Community Health, Education and Research

Last Updated: January 29, 2004

Name of Organization/Institution: Center for Community Health, Education and Research

Keywords: HIV, Case management, Haitian

Description of best practice: The case management model that we use is that of a community/hospital based so that our consumers get access to health care and be connected to services in the community where they reside. In addition, clients receive follow up care by the same case manager. Haitians and their families infected and affected by HIV. Case managers primarily at Boston Medical Center speak Haitian Creole and French.

We deal with a stigmatized population, the native of work (HIV/AIDS) consumers are more comfortable dealing with one person in the hospitals and in the community.

This is funded by the state and city of Boston.

Relevant Materials:

* History and Mission
* Psychosocial Counseling for Haitians Living with HIV (Presentation)
* Capacity Building Assistance to Prevent AIDS in the Metro Boston Haitian Community
* Haitian REACH 2010
* Prevention and Education Programs
* Key Elements in Developing and Sustaining a Community Coalition in an Immigrant Population (presentation)
* Culturally Oriented HIV Prevention Program for Haitian Women (presentation)
* The Mental Health Service Delivery Model for Haitians Living with HIV/AIDS (presentation)
* Report: Drug and Alcohol Abuse Among Boston’s Haitian Community
* Haitians in Massachusetts and the Need for HIV Prevention and Care: A Community Action Plan