Children's Hospital Boston  300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 355-6000
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Clinical Services (Boston HAPPENS Program):
For Professionals
Image Boston HAPPENS works with youth-serving organizations on HIV prevention and intervention strategies and collaborates with agencies and professionals who work with with HIV infected, homeless and at-risk youth. HAPPENS also brings together health care providers to network and support one another.

About Us

The HAPPENS Program provides:

  • Youth oriented HIV counseling and testing
  • Primary care and treatment of HIV infected youth
  • Clinical consultation and/or ongoing specialized HIV care and treatment for HIV infected youth and young adults receiving primary care elsewhere
  • Sexual and reproductive health services for HIV infected youth and young adults
  • Case management and support services
  • Mental health services
  • Peer outreach and education
  • Risk reduction counseling, family planning services and Gyn care to HIV infected youth
  • Access to clinical trials
  • Services and support for at-risk youth
  • Consultation about non-occupational post-exposure prophylaxis (N-PEP), sexual assault follow-up
  • Technical assistance, consultation and staff in-service trainings
  • Training for youth-serving providers and providers working with HIV infected youth
  • Collaboration with community agencies
  • Individual and group therapy for youth living with HIV
  • Youth support groups
Adolescent Wellness Networking Breakfast for Providers
Date: First Wednesday of every month
Location: Boston Living Center, 29 Stanhope St., Boston
Time: 9:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Sponsors: AIDS Action Committee, Boston HAPPENS Program, Boston Public Health Commission-HIV/AIDS Services, MDPH-HIV/AIDS Bureau, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts

The Adolescent Wellness Networking Breakfast, meeting monthly since 1988, brings together adolescent providers from different health and community disciplines. It allows providers to:

  • Network: Introduce programs and services.
  • Support: Come together to re-energize and share common visions.
  • Educate: Become familiar with a variety of adolescent health disciplines.

To Attend: Health care providers may come to any scheduled breakfast and do not need to pre-register to attend.

For More Information: Call Eddie Debortoli at 617-624-5368.

Working with Us

Outreach Services:

Boston HAPPENS would like to work with you to assist in the care and support for HIV infected, homeless and at-risk youth that you care for at your site. We faciliate transitions from pediatric to adolescent, and adolescent to adult care. Our Outreach and Services Coordinator, Frances Morales, is available to meet with you and your staff at your convenience and can be contacted at 617-355-2509.

Community Collaboration:

We collaborate with Community Partners working with young people and youth-serving programs in Boston neighborhoods, where youth are at highest risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

If you are from a community-based agency or a youth-serving organization and are interested in community collaboration for HIV prevention and intervention strategies, please contact our Outreach Services Coordinator at 617-355-2509. Please feel free to contact us about any issues for which we can offer support or for access to any of our services.

Professional Affiliations

The Boston HAPPENS Program is based at the Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine Program at Children's Hospital Boston and is affililated with the Boston Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (PACTU).

Location

Boston HAPPENS Program
Children's Hospital Boston
Adolescent Medicine
333 Longwood Avenue
5th floor
Boston, MA 02115

We are across the street from the main entrance of Children's Hospital Boston, in the same building as the Harvard Coop and Bank of America.

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