Actively Reaching Montana (ARM)
ARM is a statewide outreach and counseling, testing, and referral services program designed to reach all priority populations to help them take advantage of HIV prevention programs and services. The priority populations in Montana are men who have sex with men, individuals who use injection drugs, and high-risk heterosexuals.
Outreach is a common means of meeting potential high-risk clients in their own environment to deliver HIV prevention messages and services. These activities may take place in specific venues where high-risk individuals congregate and/or in places where high risk behaviors take place. In addition, outreach can be conducted at virtual sites, including the Internet. Outreach also includes HIV/AIDS, STI, and Hepatitis C information, and distribution of condoms and lube.
HIV counseling, testing, and referral encompasses a collection of activities designed to increase a client’s knowledge of his/her HIV status, encourage and support risk reduction, and to secure needed referrals for appropriate medical, prevention, and partner counseling and referral services. Testing programs in non-clinical venues are more likely to reach members of some marginalized groups and persons at increased risk for HIV.
ARM Outreach Workers 2011
Jeanette (Kookie) Hughes-Butte Keith (Ki) Wine-Great Falls
406.491.1427 406.868.8382
j.hughes@bresnan.net �� Tattooedboy2004@yahoo.com
Joey Packwood-Kalispell Rebecca Harvey-Missoula
406.471.5109 406.543.4770
hotrodblack189@hotmail.com rebecca@MissoulaAIDSCouncil.org