Community / Street Outreach

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="05bfd523.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community Action, Inc.</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community "><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Services"><U><B><IMG SRC="04e0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>    </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>  </B><A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Prevention Case Management"><U><B><IMG SRC="04f0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.capefearregionalbureauforcommunityactioninc.org/mf.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.capefearregionalbureauforcomm"><U><B>Click Here For Site Map</B></U></A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="23fd2993.jpg"> <div> <B>Reaching out to the community, where they are.</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>Community / Street Outreach</B></I><I><B> <embed src="HTMLobj-542/Hero.wav" autostart="true" loop="true" hidden="true">  </B></I></div> <div>  <A NAME="community_street_outreach_program"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>The Bureau was founded upon the premise that there had to be one on one contact with persons in the community, regardless where they may be.  With this mandate, <A HREF="id27_founder.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Founder and Chief Executive Officer"><U>Mr. Rozier, II</U></A> went into the community walking the streets handing out educational information and condoms, while learning the immediate needs faced by the homeless and street persons.  He went beyond the street and into to the junk joints, bootlegging houses, crack houses and areas of hang-outs where the street persons and substance abusers found a safe haven.</div> <bR> <div> Our Community/Street Outreach is exactly that: an out reach to the community and in the streets at all hours of the day and night, seven days a week Our trained community/street outreach educators work non–traditional hours, insuring that the populations we serve are served in a non–intrusive manner.</div> <bR> <div> The community/street outreach service provides <A HREF="id43_pcm.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Prevention Case Management"><U>Preventative Case Management</U></A>, <A HREF="id44_hiv_antibody_testing.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HIV Antibody Testing"><U>HIV/AIDS Antibody Testing</U></A>, <A HREF="id45_syphilis_testing.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Syphilis Testing"><U>Syphilis Testing</U></A>, Housing, Food, Medical Referral and Assistance, Clothing, along with a multitude of other services and needs that are unique to each individual we serve.  No contact is the same, no need is the same, each contains a real human behind the crises, in most cases with no place to turn or help.</div> <bR> <div> Because of the success of our community/street outreach services the community knows that it has a place to come for help, a place to come just to share the immediacy of time, a place where they will receive directness with sensitivity, firmness with an extended hand and a no games approach to insuring that their needs are met.</div> <bR> <div> All of the services provided by the Bureau are based upon the community/outreach concept, be it the homeless in the streets, the disenfranchised poverty stricken employed citizen, or the needs of the community–based organizations that the Bureau helps by its <A HREF="id48_mentoring_program.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mentoring Program"><U>Mentoring Program</U></A>.</div> <bR> <div> Through out the year the Bureau conducts <A HREF="id89_parties.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Community Empowerment"><U>block parties and rallies</U></A> in the various targeted neighborhoods to educate and empower the citizens concerning HIV/AIDS, Drugs, Teen Pregnancy, <A HREF="id54_health_disparities.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Health Disparities"><U>Health Disparities</U></A>, Crime Prevention and Personal/Community Empowerment. This allows for the community to become better acquainted with the Bureau and our services.  It also allows the Bureau an opportunity to reevaluate the needs of the community, by direct interaction with the community.</div> <bR> <div> Quarterly, the Bureau submits reports to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, HIV/AIDS Care and Prevention Branch detailing the outreach for the quarter.  <A HREF="id49_outreach_narrative_report_1_1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quarterly Outreach Narrative Report"><U>Click here to review the last quarter's report.</U></A></div> <bR> <div> As you read more about our services, you will learn more about this service to the community as the foundation for all else that is accomplished by the Bureau.  In simple terms, the Bureau believes that you cannot serve the community sitting in the security of an office waiting for the community to come to you.  No, we hold we must go to the community with outreach and understanding, acceptance and caring and the professionalism to help those that are able to change their behavior to improve their lives.  Know this they will then find a haven of rest in our office and a place of acceptance where they may freely talk about their needs and knowing that someone does indeed care.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Bureau is the first community--based organization to conduct intensive and aggressive community/street outreach during non-traditional hours: evenings, late nights and weekends.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">One on one street outreach is conducted in crack houses/shooting galleries, bootlegging houses, back alleys, juke joints (clubs), barber/beauty shops, public housing, high crime and drug infested neighborhoods.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Community Outreach is conducted in schools/colleges, jails/prisons, recreational centers, faith institutions, etc.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The major targeted populations are: women of childbearing age and their partners, adolescents females and their partners, with heavy emphasis on injectable/substance abuse users of African Descent.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The total population outreached during the first two quarters, were 8,542 contacts from July 1 through December 31, 2002.</B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>