TLC- Mod 1, Sess 4: Coping with Stigma

This TLC facilitator manual aims to reduce any shame youths have about having an HIV positive status, increase their skills in dealing with situations in which they are stigmatized, and increase their ability to relax in tense situations.

TLC- Mod 1, Sess 5: Wanting to Stay Healthy

This TLC facilitator manual aims to have youths be able to identify advantages of performing healthy behaviors and engage in exercises designed to increase their self-efficacy to perform healthy behaviors.

TLC- Mod 1, Sess 6: How Do I Use Drugs and Alcohol?

This TLC facilitator manual aims to have youths practice identifying thoughts, beliefs, and actions that lead to continued substance use. This manual also aims for youths to identify their own thoughts in a substance use event and learn strategies to help them self-monitor their thoughts in substance abuse situations.

TLC- Mod 1, Sess 7: What Am I Going to Do about Substance Abuse?

This TLC facilitator manual aims to articulate youths own reasons for and against quitting substance use, discuss youths own self-images and thoughts that make them vulnerable to substance use, and determine how their substance use impacts their own short- and long-term goals.

TLC- Mod 1, Sess 8: Preventing Re-infection

This TLC facilitator manual aims to have youth set goals for increasing condom use when having sex, set goals for decreasing drug and alcohol use, and learn how to clean an IV drug needle.

TLC- Mod 1, Sess 9: Staying Calm

This TLC facilitator manual aims to have youths practice more than one relaxation exercise and identify which helps them to relax the most. This manual also aims to have youths be able to relax themselves and talk themselves through difficult encounters.

TLC- Mod 1, Sess 10: Attending Health Care Appointments

This TLC facilitator manual aims to change attitudes which interfere with attending health care appointments, identify and problem solve barriers to keeping appointments, and speak assertively to health care personnel.