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City Wide HIV/STD Education & Prevention Program
The City Wide Program is designed to educate youth between the ages of 13-19 on HIV/AIDS and other STD’s. Students will be able to identify unhealthy behavior and identify ways HIV/AID/STD’s are transmitted, as well as not transmitted. Students will explore prevention of HIV infection and other STD’s.
Students will explore decision making skills, showing how to maintain self-discipline, take responsibility for their actions, as well as the consequences to certain decisions. Students will also identify physically, emotionally and mentally healthy and unhealthy relationships.
 The Health Educator is responsible for facilitating 1 hour presentations throughout the City of Dallas to youth between the ages of 13-19.
To schedule a presentation, please feel free to contact Ms. Tynetta Runnels, (214) 915-4613.
High unemployment, lack of education, health insurance and trust in the health system have placed minority communities at risk for acquiring serious health problems. The Urban League addresses health issue through the following programs.
Link-to-Care, which is funded by Texas Department of State Health Services, offers HIV-positive ex-offenders, who are recently released to Dallas County, immediate access to primary care utilizing the Texas HIV Medication Program. All clients are eligible for medical and/or psychosocial case management services through the Urban League and its partner Parkland Health and Hospital System. The Urban League also partners with the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and Dallas County jails for referrals. Participation is voluntary and all services are free.
 Community Promise is a community-level HIV prevention and intervention program that targets intravenous drug users and trains them as peer advocate volunteers to help impact changes in the community. It improves health status by promoting healthy behaviors. This program is funded by the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Prevention Case Management, alsofunded by the Texas Department of State Health Services, provides intensive, on-going support, individualized prevention counseling and service brokerage. It targets persons, whether positive, negative or status unknown, who have or are likely to have difficulty initiating or sustaining practices that prevent the acquisition, transmission or re-infection of HIV.
Abstinence Program provides educational and parenting classes for youth and parents that address teen pregnancy, drug abuse, STDs and HIV/AIDS. Its goal is to decrease early sexual encounters and teen pregnancy among high risk youth and educate them and their parents about the risks. The Texas Department of State Health Services has supported this program for two years.
 Urban Health Solutions identifies gaps in service strategy for substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis among minority youth and re-entry populations; offers Ora Quick Rapid Response HIV testing; and sustains an overall strategy for reintegrating these at-risk populations in the community service delivery network. The program is funded by SAMHSA-CSAP.
Citywide HIV/AIDS Education, Outreach, and Prevention Program includes small group level HIV/AIDS education sessions and outreach to adolescents ages 13 to 19 in the City of Dallas who are in households whose income is at least 51% at or below poverty level. Individuals targeted are adolescents of all ethnicities who are sexually active and engage in unprotected sex or are not sexually active but feel pressured by peers to become sexual active.
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