"REAL MEN" Curriculum

Authors

Jessie Daniels, Hunter CollegeFollow
Ronald Shuler, Independent ResearcherFollow
Nina Aledort, NYS Office of Children ServicesFollow
Nicholas Freudenberg, CUNY School of Public HealthFollow

Document Type

Other

Publication Date

Fall 2003

Abstract

This is the curriculum for a program known as "REAL MEN," an acronym for "Returning Educated African American and Latino Men to Enriched Neighborhoods." A collaborative effort, the REAL MEN program was a public health intervention based at Rikers Island and at a community-based organization, Friends of Island Academy, for young men, ages 15-19, who were leaving jail and returning to their home communities. The curriculum for this program was designed to reduce drug use, HIV risk, and rearrest by helping participants examine alternative paths to manhood and consider racial/ethnic pride as a source of strength.

Comments

A paper describing the development of this intervention is available here:

Daniels, Jessie, Martha Crum, Megha Ramaswamy, and Nicholas Freudenberg. "Creating REAL MEN: description of an intervention to reduce drug use, HIV risk, and rearrest among young men returning to urban communities from jail." Health promotion practice, (January 2011), vol. 12 no. 1 pp. 44-54. doi: 10.1177/1524839909331910

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