New Program Interventions Receive Funding
Two programs, the Discovering Sexual Health Program, funded by The California Endowment, and the Crystal Methamphetamine Harm Reduction Social Marketing Campaign, funded by The Alliance Healthcare Foundation, Human Dignity Foundation and private donors were launched by Stepping Stone. Both programs are aimed at reducing harm caused by drug and alcohol addiction in the San Diego LGBT community. The social marketing campaign was most visible during gay pride month, with advertisements on bus kiosks, billboards, posters and advertisements run in the Gay and Lesbian Times and Buzz magazine. The campaign was designed to raise awareness of the dangers of methamphetamine use in our community and to encourage active users to reach out for help. The Discovering Sexual Health Program is an educational intervention designed to help Stepping Stone participants evaluate their own risk of drug relapse due to unaddressed high risk sexual behaviors and develop safer, low risk sexual behaviors that will not likely contribute to drug or alcohol relapse. These interventions were introduced because of our observations that barriers in our community were preventing participants and community members from either accessing or fully benefiting from Stepping Stone's array of services. Both programs have an evaluation component that will allow Stepping Stone to measure the outcomes and determine the successes and needed improvements of the programs.
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