CAPP awards

$230,000 in grants

The Community AIDS Partnership Project has announced its spring 1991 grant recipients. To date, CAPP has reviewed a total of $4,466,000 in requests and awarded $1,468,000 in grants. Education-for-prevention has received 37 percent of total funding; direct services, 30 percent; technical assistance, nine percent; and grants made to strengthen community infrastructure, 24 percent.

This round of funding focused primarily on education-for-prevention efforts. The total awards of $231,906 for the spring 1991 grant-making cycle of CAPP are as follows:

The School of Dentistry, Case Western Reserve University, was awarded a one-year grant for $5,000 to conduct a oneday professional education workshop for area dental practitioners. This workshop will be co-sponsored with the Greater Cleveland Dental Society and will feature information on HIV, research, dental diagnosis and patient management.

The Department of Pediatrics, CWRU, was awarded a two-year grant for $76,312 for an AIDS education intervention program directed towards urban minority women of child-bearing years. Specifically, CAPP is funding education intervention sessions targeted at women who have recently given birth. The department will also compare this education with more conventional intervention programs currently in place and analyze the differences in the programs' effectiveness.

The Lorain County Urban League was awarded a one-year grant of $35,000 to continue and expand its Women-AtRisk program and begin Men-At-Risk education-for-prevention programming. Specifically, the programs recruit peers to be trained as program facilitators, and uses a party format to conduct “night-out” sessions. The program includes rap sessions and role-playing focusing on decisionmaking skills and safer-sex practice.

The Health Issues Taskforce was awarded a two-year grant of $46,928 to study specific local patterns of risk behav-

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ior through a non-traditional peer-outreach bias rule; includes gay youth

campaign. Education-for-prevention will be targeted at bars, clubs and bathhouses, both in the white community and communities of color.

The Cleveland Department of Public Health was awarded a one-year grant of $33,666 to work in conjunction with a consortium to implement a training and education program targeted at "primary encounter agencies" for people at risk or living with HIV. These include homeless shelters, neighborhood centers, the Juvenile Detention Center, the Cuyahoga County Jail, local crisis shelters, city and correctional facilities and the Cuyahoga County Department of Human Services.

The Inner City Renewal Society was awarded a one-year grant of $35,000 to continue and expand AIDS education-forprevention programming targeting 20 area minority churches.▼

by Nora Vetarius

Effective July 1, the Cuyahoga County Community Mental Health Board has added "sexual orientation" to its non-discrimination contract clauses for both hiring practices and consumer services.

The board contracts with over 40 private, non-profit agencies in Greater Cleveland, such as Positive Education Program, the Child Guidance Center, the West Side Community Mental Health Center, the Center for Human Services, and Parmadale. These agencies serve youth who are emotionally disturbed as well as adults with schizophrenia, depression and other mental illnesses.

The board has further requested an assurance from its child-serving agencies

that sexual minority youth will be treated with the same cultural sensitivity as any other youth.

The board's action was prompted by a recent federal Health and Human Services

Dept. report, which indicated that gay and lesbian youth are three times as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to commit suicide.

The board intends to sponsor several training workshops for its providers over the next year to highlight issues and problems sexual minority youth face during adolescence. The initial training opportunity will occur during the Lesbian and Gay Youth Conference scheduled in October, which the board is co-sponsoring. ▼

Center plans lesbian-gay talent show in fall

The Lesbian-Gay Community Service Center of Greater Cleveland will hold its First Annual Talent Show on Saturday November 16, in the Great Hall of the Civic in Cleveland Heights.

This event is being planned by the Special Events Committee of the Center, chaired by Nick Palumbo and Peggi Cella. The Center has hired Brynna Fish of Bluefish Productions to produce this

event.

The talent show will be a benefit fundraiser for the Center with proceeds also supporting continued work of the Center's Special Events Committee for future fund raisers.

The idea for this lesbian and gay Talent Show had been germinating for some time, according to Palumbo, and now seemed like just the right time to tap into the community interest in such an event.

Palumbo further explained that this show will be unique, something the gay men and women of Cleveland have never experienced. Many things will set this talent show apart from other community entertainment events. All talent has to audition to be in the show. A panel of audition judges will choose the best talent and ensure a broad variety and community representation for the show. Cash prizes will be awarded on the basis of overall "enjoyability" and other criteria established by the planning committee. First prize is $500, second prize is $300 and third prize is $200. The committee is still putting together the panel of judges for the show.

The committee is also seeking surprise emcees for the show and will announce this as soon as confirmation is made.

A party will follow the Talent Show in the assembly hall of the Civic with music,

dancing and refreshments.

Ticket sales will be announced next month.

Anyone interested in auditioning for the Talent Show can call the Center, at 522-1999, for audition guidelines and to secure an audition date and time. Auditions will be held in the Great Hall of the Civic on Saturday and Sunday, August 24 and 25, and also on September 7 and 8, from noon until 3:00 p.m. Those auditioning are asked to have ten minutes of prepared material including samples of what you would perform in the show.

The Center is proud to be producing this event in cooperation with Bluefish Productions and the Gay People's Chronicle. For more information call 522-1999.

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