The BOLD Initiative: Bridging Opportunity, Leadership and Development

The BOLD Initiative, defined by its slogan "Of the Community, With the Community," is an internship for young college students, who want to catalyze communal advancement in HIV prevention and bring civic responsiveness into meaningful action. Interns engage proactively in new zones of knowledge that innovatively draw attention toward social transformation and collective empowerment. These new zones transform youth into popular educators seeking a transformative or dialogical educational process in which they explore their own lives and realities. This approach reformulates HIV prevention and awareness at the level of individual behaviors, but also brings attention to a kind of public intimacy where knowledge acquires a new connotation and sense of familiarity with the community. 

The BOLD Initiative equips young college students, in the long term, with the experience (i.e. youth-led project, community outreach) needed to deliver significant input to establish a positive influence during any decision-making process and to make effective change at the systemic level concerning HIV prevention.

Here, our objective goes beyond the passive-prohibiting standard model of prevention and moves toward youth leadership, youth development, and a culture of genuine opportunity and promise. This way, the youth is considered an asset, and prevention is not seen as reactive and negative - "a going against."

INTERNSHIP AVAILABLE. APPLY NOW! (Due until 10/08/2011)