HIV/STI Prevention Education Certificate Program

The HIV/STI Prevention Studies Office is part of the Health Education Department.

Our goal is to provide quality education and career training in addition to HIV/STI prevention programming and activities using a peer education model dedicated to linking learning with action. Harm Reduction and social justice education form the foundation for our classes, programs and activities.

We have been serving the CCSF campus community and beyond through community partnerships to deliver prevention activities, services, and advocacy since the mid 1980’s.

The HIV/STI Prevention Education Program in addition to offering certification and classes, also operates the Link Center: Linking Learning and Action (a peer resource center). Please click on Link Center below (or in the left navigational menu) for more information.

Classes and Certificates in HIV/STI Prevention Education. Our classes and certificate programs are designed to prepare students to work in entry level public health social service settings with a focus on HIV/STI prevention.

The Linking Learning and Action Center -- LINK CENTER -- has free safer sex supplies, Harm Reduction information, HIV, AIDS, STI, HEP C resources and referrals, meeting space and computers for student use, and houses the Gender Diversity Project and the Drug and Alcohol Studies program libraries. The LINK CENTER is also the home of Community Leadership Training, Gender Diversity Project, Project Safe, Full Circle, Healing for Change, Waypass and the Peer Care Management program.

See our POSTER GALLERY HERE!

Community Leadership Training

is a student, faculty, and staff partnership to design and carry out HIV/STI prevention activities with a social justice perspective. For more information click here.

Gender Diversity Project

is a student, faculty and staff partnership to educate and advocate for the safety and rights of transgender, gender variant, and gender queer communities at CCSF and beyond. For more information click here.

Project SAFE

Project SAFE is the student peer education component of the projects and programs of the HIV/STI Prevention Studies Office. Our peer educators are involved in a wide range of activities such as safer sex fairs, World AIDS day and Transgender Awareness Day events, staffing a Peer education and Resources Room in MU 301, and the projects of Community Leadership Training and the Gender Diversity Project.

The Project SAFE club is supported by the CCSF Interclub Council of the Associated Students (A.S.). The club supports students in the above and/or other activities as determined by elected club officers, club members, and the faculty advisor under the bylaws of the A.S. This student club meets in the LINK Center (Linking Learning and Action) MU 301.