A viral hepatitis prevention & education program for young adult IDUs
The Evidence Based Intervention Manual
The UFO (U Find Out) Model Replication Manual
In conjunction with The University of California, San Francisco and funded by the Centers For Disease Control: The U Find Out (UFO) Study's Hepatitis C intervention for young injection drug users. In collaboration with local health providers from the Homeless Youth Alliance to San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) , the larger UFO project served as primary health care provider for young IDU in San Francisco. With SFDPH we gave out preventative vaccines every year for HBV, flu, TDAP, and actively maintained a comprehensive medical services referrals list vetted by people we served. From 2012 to 2014 materials from the UFO Presents! were piloted and evaluated by several groups in New Jersey and Sacramento, CA. The manuals contents continued to shape successful service provision in San Francisco and beyond until 2020.
Written & edited by Pam DiCarlo. Design elements, layout, and photography by GiGi Cavaleri.
Urgent 2025 update: An international collaborative successfully backed up the USA Centers for Disease Control website, which my replication manual once lived on. Find the CDC backup here: https://restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov/
The UFO Presents! replication manual is archived below.
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Manual Audience
Municipal public health departments, CROs, and community organizations serving young adults under the age of 30 who use drugs, regardless of HCV status.
Staff Facing Supplemental Training Booklet
Key concept summaries from the full manual for every section and program component, prepared in advance for service providers in fast moving environments. To see the full manual select here.
Design Brief
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Leverage uniquely recognizable UFO Study creative to build collaborations with service agencies
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Draw from UFO Study creative
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Make it professional but keep it fun:
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UFO Study is punk rock
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UFO Presents! is new wave
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Look like a reference source
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Use complimentary blues for UCSF affiliation
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Modular manual design:
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Useful in pieces and as a whole
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Legible when copied on a regular copy machine
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Formatted for binder
Project Overview
The UFO Model is a multi-component,
multi-level hepatitis prevention intervention for young adult injection drug users (IDU). Young adult IDU are a group at high risk for hepatitis C (HCV), hepatitis B (HBV) and HIV due to frequent injecting, sharing needle/syringe and other drug preparation equipment, high numbers of sexual partners, and exchange of sex for money or drugs. Street youth who inject have poor education, high unemployment and
mental health issues.
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