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-------------- 057 Time Frame: Program Phase (Months 4 - 11) 5. To provide accurate information, counseling and referrals about HIV transmission, AIDS, and prevention services to individuals in Orange County through the personal contacts with the community volunteer "natural helpers" . 6. To identify, recruit, and train community volunteers to serve as community resources and program implementors for the • AIDS education program within the minority communities. 7. To initiate and provide special small group programs dealing with health issues of minority students, including AIDS, in the Orange County and Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools through trained Public Health Nurses. • Activities: A. Develop a community-based "natural helpers" network within the minority communities. This network will be comprised of residents of the community and will provide accurate information and referrals B. Identify, recruit, and train 5-10 community volunteers from Northern Orange County and 5-10 from Southern Orange (including Chapel Hill and Carrboro; , 100% black, at least 30% male) to provide information, advice and programs in the black communities. A special effort will be made to recruit black youths to comprise approximately 30-50% of this group C. To maintain a minimum of 10 volunteers in both the Southern and Northern part of Orange county, the project coordinator will identify, recruit, and train other • volunteers as needed. D. Provide ongoing training and support tet maintain our pool of community "natural helpers" throughout Orange County to provide accurate information and referral. E. To provide educational programs about AIDS, HIV transmission and prevention, services in the community that can help reduce HIV and transmission and the special risks to black youth for HIV infection to 20 community groups and black churches in Orange County. These programs will be provided by the project coordinator and the advisory board. • •