The mission of the Community Health Initiative Unit is to improve the quality of life in the community through education and intervention. This mission is executed via four programs: Community Organized to Prevent AIDS (COPA), PROCEED Safely, PROCEED Safely-Prudential Foundation, and Latino Awareness Diabetes Intervention Network Outreach and Screening (LADINOS).   The unit accomplishes its goal through four programs: The goal of COPA is to reduce the transmission of HIV infection among at-risk youth, women and men who have sex with men (MSM) in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, through culturally sensitive health education and risk reduction activities to modify substance use and sexual behaviors that place individuals at risk of acquiring, re-infecting or transmitting HIV. Through intensive street and community outreach, participants are engaged in activities that include intensive health education/risk reduction multi-sessions, prevention case management, individual counseling, supportive groups, health seminars, peer leadership programs, and OraSure HIV counseling and testing. The primary goal of PROCEED Safely is to develop and sustain comprehensive prevention services and reduce HIV/AIDS/STI transmission among Latinos and African American IDUs and their needle sharing and or sexual partners, in Elizabeth, East Orange and Newark, Union/Essex County, NJ. The program focuses on providing street and community outreach and HIV counseling and testing through PROCEED Safely's Mobile Unit, to injection drug users and their needle/sexual partners, educating them through risk and harm reduction interventions, and referring them to methadone maintenance, detox, and inpatient and outpatient programs, as well as to medical supervision and other social services. The goal of this project is to provide reliable transportation to minority injection drug users from the cities of Elizabeth, East Orange and Newark, Union/Essex Counties, NJ, in order for them to access methadone maintenance treatment on a daily basis, and receive client-centered HIV counseling and testing to reduce the HIV transmission and acquisition among this population. LADINOS is a diabetes screening and education program targeting minority populations in the City of Elizabeth, NJ emphasizing access and innovative methods of community engagement and education. The program is a triage of services: screening, medical referrals and diabetes management to those at high risk or who have been found to have diabetes. The screening, outreach and community awareness components of the program provide consumers with education, access, and services for the prevention of Type 2 Diabetes. It provides necessary links between the community and medical resources through screening protocols, medical referrals and intensive case management activities to promote primary prevention in high-risk populations. For eligibility criteria and additional information call Community Health Initiatives at (908) 351-7727 or e-mail us at info@proceedinc.com.   Funding for the above programs is provided by: New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Division of AIDS Prevention and Control - Center for Disease Control and Prevention - Office of Minority and Multi-Cultural Health - The Prudential Foundation