Healthy Youth Program Project

Project STYLE: Strengthening the Youth Life Experience

Project STYLE is the first multi-site (Providence, Rhode Island; Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois) HIV prevention program designed specifically for parents and youths with significant mental health disorders. Project STYLE is evaluating the efficacy of a family-focused HIV-prevention program and an adolescent-only HIV-prevention program, relative to a health promotion control group, in increasing safe sex behavior and reducing incidents of STDs across a 12-month period. Teens are 13 – 18-years old and are recruited from psychiatric hospitals and outpatient mental health centers.