Hep C Prevention in Youth and Team HOPE Meeting Highlights | 7-21-17

Team HOPE Accomplishments

• [fac_button icon=”facebook” name=”HOPE Facebook Page” link=”https://www.facebook.com/HepFreeHOPE” target=”_blank” color_hover=”#00b9f7″ background=”#a14693″ background_hover=”#ffffff”] Social Media Campaign – “Have Hope to End Hep C.” View photos on the HOPE Facebook Page
• Tabling at health fairs and sharing Hep C resources
• Presenting on Hep C in college classes
• Screening Hep C Prevention in Youth Video at CUNY Hunter College
• Engaging in “Show Your Face Social Media Campaign” for World Hepatitis Day

Ideas for HOPE Projects for next school year

• Create a strategic plan for the year, with different goals.
• Start the year with team building activities.
• Create a high school curriculum about Hep C – 11th In the curriculum, stress how prescription medication misuse can lead to intranasal or injection drug use, which can lead to Hep C infection.
• Outreach to high schools and present on Hep C.
• Connect with school health at DOH.
• Create a Hep C resource targeting young people.
• Identify strengths of each person in group, and delegate tasks based on those strengths.
• Organize the interns based on the college they attend.

Opportunities to screen the Hep C Prevention in Youth Video

• Screening at Brooklyn College, other high schools, and other colleges
• Screening events at partner organizations – Neighborhood Health Action Centers (distribute naloxone at events)
• Health Centers – Brightpoint Health
• Health Centers at Colleges – show the videoShow the video at naloxone trainings
• Drop in syringe exchange programs
• Heart to Heart – Weil Cornell (show video in waiting areas)

Hep C Prevention in Youth Video