AIDSail Partners

CAFRA (Caribbean Feminist Research and Action)
CAFRA is a regional network of feminists, individual researchers, activists and women’s organizations that define feminist politics as a matter of both consciousness and action. They are committed to understanding the relationship between the oppression of women and other forms of oppression in the society, and are working actively for change. CAFRA works as a network of women’s organizations to research document and take action regarding the situation of women in the region, influence policy regionally and internationally, support programs for women’s economic self-sufficiency, foster dialogue towards the development of non-patriarchal perceptions and structures, and promote personal growth, efficient use of human resources, and sustainable development of the environment. CAFRA is an autonomous umbrella organization working with NGO’s in 16 countries in Central America and the Caribbean. CAFRA will partner with AIDSail to provide program evaluation, and skills building, training and workshops to its member organizations, local NGO’s and government health personnel regarding lessons learned during AIDSail’s interventions.

SUNRISE COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER, Coordinator of the AIDSail project
AIDSail is a project of Sunrise Community Counseling Center (SCCC) is a United States based 501c3 non-profit agency with 30 years of experience providing mental health and psychosocial education to low-income minority and immigrant populations. SCCC has been in existence since 1976, founded to provide mental health services to the immigrant Asian community. The community transformed over the years to receive immigrants seeking refuge from wars in Central America, and SCCC expanded its services to accommodate refugees from these countries. Currently, SCCC has four offices in Los Angeles and offices on the Central California coast providing multilingual services for mental health programs and evaluation, domestic violence intervention, drug and alcohol treatment, HIV services, case management, individual and family counseling, crisis intervention, and gang intervention.

Internationally, SCCC is one of the non-governmental organizations working in conjunction with the United Nations Office of Drug Control Crime Prevention to enhance attention in promoting health and innovative alternatives to high-risk behavior. SCCC has organized technical training for NGO’s in Brazil (Center for Alcohol Research – CEPRAL) and Uganda (Sober Uganda).
SCCC has participated in the presentation of research and policy issues for drug control, psychology of crime, domestic and family violence, and adolescent behavior and behavioral risk for HIV during:

• Forum 2000 Latin American and Conference for HIV/STD, Brazil
• XIII International AIDS Conference, Africa
• 38th International Congress on Alcohol, Drugs and Other Dependencies, Austria
• International conference on Migration, Culture Conflict and Crime, Israel
• 12th International Conference on Criminology, Korea
• ECLAD - Encontro de Cidades Latino Americanas Contra o uso de Drogas, Brazil
• Organized Crime and Organization Crime, Frontiers in Research, Theory and Policy, Japan
• Brazilian National Council of Psychology, Brazil
• United Nation Office of Drug Control Crime Prevention, USA, New York
• World Affairs Council, USA, San Francisco

Clinical research has included:

• National research on domestic violence in women infected with HIV
• Drug abuse and family violence: Comparative analysis between Brazilian and American Teens
• Anger assessment analysis between drug abuse and domestic violence patients in outpatient setting
• Socio-economic assessment of drug using population in Los Angeles