STAR TRACK Adolescent Health Program
Focused on HIV prevention and sexual health education, STAR TRACK offers HIV/STI testing, sexual health education, community outreach, PrEP counseling and access, non-medical case management and linkage to care, community groups, monthly programming, and large scale events, professional development and technical assistance for youth and LGBTQ-serving organizations and providers.
Guiding Frameworks
Sex Positivity: Prioritizing and centering choice, consent, pleasure, desire, decision making, sexual health, and healthy relationships.
Harm Reduction: Centering strategies and goals that youth seek out without pushing for behavior change before youth are willing and prepared to take next steps.
Strengths Based: Viewing young people as resilient, creative, and resourceful with tangible strengths, motivation, and self-determination.
Community Driven: Listening to, learning from, and valuing community needs, input, and direction.
Youth Centered: Following youth needs and providing access to information and resources requested.
Social Justice with emphasis on Racial Justice: Understanding that HIV is a racial justice issue, proven through the social determinants of health. We address, from a historical point of view, the complex and unique needs of low-income POC.