Our Mission:
Long Beach AIDS Foundation (LBAF) serves as a social change agent inspiring
and empowering collaborative HIV/AIDS service organizations (ASO's) to
embrace new strategic paradigms, motivate existing infrastructures and
enhance organizational leadership with the ultimate aim to end the spread of
HIV/AIDS.
Now Casting New Show Hosts for our newest program.
We're looking for new cast members for
our weekly web blogcast. Our newest show, SpunkTV adds to our
current line-up of Tenacity of Teens. We have more web blogcasts in
the works to address youth and adolescent access to information
about health, relevant topics and HIV prevention & education.
Have a great personality? Comfortable
with web apps, social networks and building a fan base? Are you
between the ages of 15 to 24 and ready to talk to your peers about
health & HIV? Join our cast of Tenacity of Teens, SpunkTV, Wake
Up My Brothers and others in development. You can make an impact
with your peers.
SpotU is the first National web
blogcast integrating web apps, social networks and traditional
outreach infrastructure to connect with your peers. You write,
produce and direct the weekly shows. Requires a six month
commitment and some shows require parental permission. You may
even earn Service Learning Hours for school. Call us at (562)
987-5200
Now Casting on SpotU
Yak_TV
Adolescents ages 19 to 24 for our newest show.
Airing January
Every Sunday
at 1:00PM
Do you yak?
Call 562-987-5200
Now Casting on SpotU
Tenacity of
Teens
Adolescents ages 15 to 18 for our second season!
Thousands watch from all over the
world last season. Now our original cast has either gone
to college or moved on.
All new shows begin January 17th
Sundays at 2:00PM
Call 562-987-5200
Now Casting on SpotU
Wake Up My Brothers
Black and Latino Issues
An
interactive new show connecting young Black Adolescents and
Latino Adolescents on issues affecting their community, access
and linkage to testing and service, all from the their
perspective.
2 Full Casts Needed!
Coming Soon!
Call 562-987-5200
Our
Spot U Peer-to-Peer program helping to create a National movement.
In May
of 2008, the Foundation launched phase 1 of our Spot U, Youth and
Adolescent Health & HIV Awareness program with a campaign funded in
part by Cable Positive and Charter Communications. The
campaign ran for 7 weeks throughout Southern California focusing on
getting youth and adolescents to get the facts on HIV, get tested
and to volunteer in HIV organizations in their community.
You can see the clip here by clicking on the
video link below.
Phase 2
began in February 2009 with the weekly web broadcast of the
"Tenacity of Teens" webcast on Sundays at 2pm.
This
peer-to-peer program incorporates blog webcasting along with social
network integration. That's a mouthful but what does that
mean?
The facts are that technology is moving at the speed of light today
and non-profits traditionally have a difficult time catching up to
using today's youth-embraced technologies to communicate, interact
and create activism. It requires "outside-the-box" thinking to
fully engage youth and adolescents. Outreach has to be more
than the "build it and they will come" approach.
The
Foundation was one of the first organizations in the nation to use
the majority of social networks, blogs, webcast, video networks and
multi-method delivery systems to reach youth and adolescents.
Our participants now come from all over the world. Not bad for
a small non-profit trying to make an impact on HIV among youth and
adolescents.
Now
we're expanding our Spot U program even more and Cable Positive is
out there pushing the same style peer-to-peer multi-method delivery
program along with us. It just keeps getting better, but to
read about it more, we need more space. So click here to read
and see how the Foundation is making this program a success!
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