PHC6534: Black, Proud, and Strong: Building Black LGBTQ+ Community Resilience to Improve HIV-related Health Outcomes

Kansas City’s Black LGBTQ+ community is the most highly-impacted community for HIV health-related outcomes, including HIV diagnosis and being virally unsuppressed (KC-TGA, 2022). Bond et al. (2021) and Bertolino et al. (2020) indicate a relationship between HIV risk behaviors and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Black, Proud, and Strong (BPS) will use a trauma-informed Community-Based Participatory Research approach to assess ACEs within the Black LGBTQ+ community and to build and support community-based resiliency-building resources. BPS aims to reduce HIV risk behavior and increase HIV health behaviors within the Black LGBTQ+ community by addressing the individual and community levels of the socialecological model through primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022; Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, 2016). BPS incorporates key trauma-informed principles outlined by Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia (2016; n.d.): acknowledgment of power structures; diversity, equity, and inclusion; empowerment and voice; patience and flexibility; transparency; responsiveness; safety; and cultural humility.

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