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CPIC, Monique Helping Hands Support Center offers support center programs designed to meet the unique needs of Caribbean families infected with or affected by HIV and AIDS.

CPIC counseling centers offer community support through individual, family, couples or group counseling. Currently, one of these centers is located in Guyana and two others are in the process of being created in Dominica and Trinidad and Tobago. The first goal of the program are to increase the number of persons who receive voluntary HIV counseling and testing amongst sexually active persons, pregnant women while at the same time promoting abstinence, condom usage and monogamous relationships. Second goal is to ensure behavioral changes through culturally based training addressing Obeah, Voodoo and other superstitious beliefs, the roles of male and female in relationship building and sexual negotiation skills.

Monique’s Helping Hands support Center programs offer the following programs: