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  • Dime Más Study
    • The purpose of this study is to evaluate different strategies for connecting Latino gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) with PrEP, HIV, and mental health services. This pilot study will compare several different strategies, including standard community outreach, Dime Más (delivered by our partners at Care Resource), and Oye Miami (an online resource tailored for Latino MSM) to see which strategies are most helpful for getting Latino MSM connected to services. Latino MSM in South Florida who are fully eligible complete surveys online and receive support getting connected to services; those who participate in all components of the study can earn up to $175.
  • JUNTOS Study
    • The JUNTOS Referral Network is an implementation strategy to help local HIV providers make better referrals when working with Latino men who have sex with men (MSM) clients. In the study we are currently doing, we are enrolling South Florida based HIV test counselors to help us evaluate the JUNTOS tool. Counselors who enroll will then invite their Latino MSM HIV testing clients to participate as well. HIV test counselors who are fully eligible complete online surveys and receive access to tools to help them with referrals; those who participate in all components of the study can earn up to $150, $200 if they complete exit interview.
  • CHARM Equitable Implementation Science Core
    • The Center for HIV and Research in Mental Health (CHARM) is a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funded AIDS Research Center intended to provide research infrastructure to University of Miami researchers. CHARM includes an Equitable Implementation Science (EIS) Core, directed by Dr. Harkness. The EIS Core aims to support research on equitably implementing and disseminating evidence-based interventions to reach communities who could most benefit.
    • The EIS Core oversees the CHARM Implementer Survey. The goal of this survey is to collect information from implementers who are involved in the delivery of HIV, mental health, substance use, and other types of services for the South Florida area. This survey is a way to help us identify local implementers who may wish to participate in research and to learn more about local implementers’ needs and priorities.
    • If you are someone who implements or provides HIV or mental health/substance use services in South Florida, please consider completing the CHARM Implementer Survey: https://redcap.miami.edu/surveys/?s=YLY98LWAAX

  • Community Advisory Board (CAB)
    • The REACH Community Advisory Board (CAB) is dedicated to incorporating community feedback to the various steps in the research process, and ensure the work REACH produces (e.g., survey language, publications, presentations, etc.) is informed by the experiences of local Latino men who have sex with men in Miami. Being part of the CAB is also on opportunity to connect with others in the community and inform/develop new research projects aligned with the community’s needs. We are currently enrolling new CAB members! To learn more about the CAB contact us at reach@miami.edu, we will be happy to send you the application materials to be considered.

 

Projects not enrolling:

  • SOMOS Alianza:
    • The purpose of SOMOS Alianza is to serve as a strategic alliance of scientists, implementers, and community partners with the goal of identifying new strategies to deliver prevention and treatment to Latino gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in Miami, San Juan, and Orlando. SOMOS members participate in in-person and virtual meetings to set goals, identify assets and strengths in each jurisdiction that could be translated to other jurisdictions, and speed networking/matchmaking to promote connections, scaling out innovations, and developing  new  implementation research and  practice projects. SOMOS Alianza recently was awarded an R01 grant to study and scale up the strategies our member organizations are using to improve the reach of PrEP and mental health treatments to Latino MSM.

 

  • Hombre a Hombre:
    • Hombre a Hombre is an intervention that our team, in partnership with our CAB, adapted from an existing evidence based intervention, Within My Reach (WMR), to promote healthy relationship skills. For this project, which is based directly on the needs and priorities of the REACH CAB, we culturally adapted the intervention for Latino sexual minority men (SMM) using the ADAPT-ITT adaptation framework. We then conducted a small pilot test to evaluate how Latino SMM experienced the Hombre a Hombre intervention.

  • Referral Through Testing (RTT) Project
    • The purpose of this study is to learn more about HIV test counselors' experiences with pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and mental health/substance use treatment referrals. The study aims to develop new programs intended to meet the needs of the community needs as an HIV test counselor, and the needs of individuals seeking HIV testing in Miami-Dade County.

 

 

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