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SISTAS will learn:
Ethnic & Gender Pride
HIV/AIDS Education
Assertiveness Skills
Coping Skills
Behavioral Self Management
Ethnic & Gender Pride
HIV/AIDS Education
Assertiveness Skills
Coping Skills
Behavioral Self Management
For more information or to sign up for sessions please contact
Cynthia Jasper, Prevention Specialist
414-933-0064 ext. 204
Program Overview
Core Elements
The SISTA project is a social-skills training intervention for African American women. It is aimed at reducing HIV sexual risk behavior. It is comprised of five 2-hour sessions, delivered by peer facilitators in a community-based setting. The sessions are gender specific and culturally relevant and include behavioral skills practice, group discussions, lectures, role playing, prevention video viewing, and take-home exercises.
Core Elements
• Convene small-group sessions to discuss the session
objectives, model skills development, role-play women's
skills acquisition, and address the challenges and joys of
being an African American woman.
• Use skilled African American female facilitators to
implement SISTA group sessions.
• Use cultural and gender appropriate materials to
acknowledge pride, enhance self-worth in being an
African American woman (e.g., use of poetry by African
American women).
• Teach women to communicate both verbally and
nonverbally to show that she cares for her partner and
needs to protect herself (i.e., negotiation skills, assertive
communication skills).
• Instruct women on how to effectively and consistently
use condoms (i.e., condom use skills).
• Discuss cultural and gender-related barriers and
facilitators to using condoms (e.g., provide information
on African American women’s risk of HIV infection).
• Emphasize the importance of partner’s involvement in
safer sex (i.e., enhance partner norms supportive of
condom use).
Target Population
The SISTA project targets heterosexually active African
American women.
objectives, model skills development, role-play women's
skills acquisition, and address the challenges and joys of
being an African American woman.
• Use skilled African American female facilitators to
implement SISTA group sessions.
• Use cultural and gender appropriate materials to
acknowledge pride, enhance self-worth in being an
African American woman (e.g., use of poetry by African
American women).
• Teach women to communicate both verbally and
nonverbally to show that she cares for her partner and
needs to protect herself (i.e., negotiation skills, assertive
communication skills).
• Instruct women on how to effectively and consistently
use condoms (i.e., condom use skills).
• Discuss cultural and gender-related barriers and
facilitators to using condoms (e.g., provide information
on African American women’s risk of HIV infection).
• Emphasize the importance of partner’s involvement in
safer sex (i.e., enhance partner norms supportive of
condom use).
Target Population
The SISTA project targets heterosexually active African
American women.
