Community Education Group, Inc.
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Description: Founded in 1993 as the National Women and HIV/AIDS Project (NWAP), the focus of this organization has always been on the Black community, particularly the risks and challenges faced by Black women. Broadcasting the message that everyone was at risk, the new nonprofit conducted face to face outreach and distributed culture conscious pamphlets and posters to other organizations and the public, nationwide.
In 1999, NWAP became Community Education Group, as founder A. Toni Young sought to expand the organization’s efforts to better address the challenges facing her South East DC community. The HIV/AIDS epidemic could not be stopped by only talking to women, or only talking about HIV – and with this in mind CEG has grown to become the organization most capable of testing the DC neighborhoods hardest hit by the HIV epidemic, best able to develop and spread health messaging in our Black community and a leader of collaborative and capacity building efforts.
Target demographics: Our target population resides or congregates in our community, DC’s Wards 7 and 8, and consists of heterosexual Black men and women ages 18-64. These two Wards form a community which is over 90% Black , has the highest unemployment rates and the highest percentage of families living in poverty in the District . These wards also have the highest rates of new HIV infection.
USA locations: Washington, DC Metro Area
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