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Although representing 12 percent of the U.S. population, African Americans represent more than one-third of all cumulative AIDS cases and the majority of all new AIDS cases in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2003). Despite this disproportionate representation by African Americans, traditional approaches to both substance abuse (Jones, 2004; Longshore, Hsieh, O'Connell Jones; Land, 2000) prevention and treatment continue to be problematic given unfavorable views of available treatments and distrust of mainstream social services (Wright, 1998). Furthermore, traditional middle-class European American intervention and treatment models do not consider the barriers to prevention and intervention facing African Americans and ignore the idea that individuals engage in behaviors that are functional for the environment in which they exist (McNair O'Connell Frames Needle, Coyle, Normand, Lambert, & Cesari, 1998).The program combines elements of the NIDA/NADR Outreach model with extensive supportive case management. A faith-based noncoercive perspective is infused throughout all interventions. Specifically, this model is extended with the word whosoever. Recipients of services are not expected to accept, or even necessarily support, the religious faith of the service providers, but are viewed as co-equal participants in all interventions. …
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