Providing clinical opportunities for youths affected by HIV

This article describes a youth-centered program that offers an opportunity for HIV affected youth to overcome their resistance to treatment and become engaged in clinical experiences by focusing on their strengths and interes ts, and helping them to develop friendships and trust within the agency. Th rough active outreach, community involvement, and special projects the auth or uses case material to demonstrate the ways in which the adolescent's sen se of isolation is gradually decreased, and individual treatment is made po ssible.