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Video Opportunities for Innovative Condom Education & Safer Sex: A group-level, single-session video-based intervention designed to increase condom use among heterosexual African American and Latino men and women who visit STD clinics.

VOICES/VOCES Net Meetings - Orientation to new videos

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Educational Development Center (EDC), with assistance from the Academy for Educational Development (AED), held three one-hour VOICES/VOCES Net Meetings during June - August 2009. The net meetings served as an orientation to the new videos that are available for the intervention. There were discussions around several of the scenes in the videos to demonstrate how to use each video and how to trigger discussions during small-group facilitation. The presenters provided on-the-spot technical assistance to implementers and answered questions about the intervention. 

VOICES/VOCES Net Meetings -- (Archived)
(click here) 

New VOICES/VOCES Videos & Guide to New Videos (Download)

How to request VOICES/VOICES Video Mailer:

The new VOICES/VOCES Video Mailer, containing four new DVDs and a Guide to New Videos on CD ROM, is currently available. Only agencies that have participated in a CDC-sponsored VOICES/VOCES training and are currently implementing the VOICES/VOCES intervention are eligible to receive this mailer. We shipped nearly 500 mailers in April 2009 to agencies implementing VOICES/VOCES.

If you are currently implementing the intervention and your agency did not receive a mailer, please send an email to slewis@aed.org.  Please place "Request for V/V Videos" in the subject line and, in the email, and please indicate the date and location of the VOICES/VOCES training that you attended. Due to anticipated heavy volume of emails, please allow 5 days to receive a response.

If you have any questions, please contact Sharday Lewis at slewis@aed.org.

Please note that we are not distributing the VOICES/VOCES kits, which individuals received at the training. The original VOICES/VOCES kit has not been revised.

The new videos are:

• Do it Right (for African American heterosexual adults)
• Se Trata de Ti (entirely in Spanish for Latino heterosexual adults)
• It's About You (the English version of Se Trata de Ti)
• Safe in the City (for adults at risk for HIV/STDs)

Thank you!

General Training Information

We strongly recommend that 2-3 staff members per organization attend a VOICES/VOCES training:

Staff Required to Attend:
Group facilitators (or any staff)
who will facilitate the VOICES/VOCES sessions.

Staff Recommended to Attend:
Program Coordinators who provide oversight or supervision to the Group Facilitators and are responsible for coordination of the VOICES/VOCES intervention.

and/or

Program Manager or Executive Director to facilitate agency internal capacity building and commitment to the VOICES/VOCES intervention.

Participants, grouped by gender and ethnicity, view an English or Spanish video on HIV risk behaviors and condom use and take part in a facilitated discussion.

The VOICES/VOCES program targets African-American and Latino adult men and women clinic clients.

Research and Development

O'Donnell, C.R., O'Donnell, L., San Doval, A., Duran, R., Labes, K. (1998). Reductions in STD Infections Subsequent to an STD Clinic Visit: Using Video-based Patient Education to Supplement Provider Interactions. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 25 (3), 161 – 168.

Program Review Panel Information

The CDC requires all CDC-funded agencies using the VOICES/VOCES intervention to identify, or establish, and utilize a Program Review Panel and complete Form 0.1113 to document this activity. The intervention researchers and developers are not involved in this activity. This is a CDC requirement for their grantees, and all questions in this regard should be directed to your agency's CDC Project Officer or to the health department funding your agency's implementation of the intervention.

The Program Review Panel guidelines, instructions for completion of Form 0.113, and the form itself are available under the Related Links section of this website.

CDC Policy on Youth Peer Outreach Workers

CDC funded (directly or indirectly) agencies using youth (either paid or volunteer) in program outreach activities, it is very important that said organizations use caution and judgment in the venues/situations where youth workers are placed. Agencies should give careful consideration to the "age appropriateness" of the activity or venue. Additionally, agencies should comply with all relevant laws and regulations regarding entrance into adult establishments/environments. Laws and curfews should be clearly outlined in required safety protocols developed and implemented by agencies directly and indirectly funded by CDC.

If you have specific questions, please contact your CDC project officer.