Signature Program
What's the Tea with HIV
A culturally responsive community experience creating a safe and affirming space for Black women to discuss HIV prevention, testing, PrEP, sexual health, and wellness.
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Community-Centered Public Health in Action.
Engaging Kare creates innovative, culturally responsive approaches that bring education, resources, partnerships, and meaningful health conversations directly into communities.
How We Work
Our work begins with community.
Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach, Engaging Kare develops programs and partnerships around the experiences, needs, and voices of the communities we engage.
Our initiatives bring together community members, healthcare organizations, educators, trusted voices, and other partners to create opportunities for education, connection, prevention, and access to resources.
Women & HIV
Creating spaces for conversation, prevention, and connection.
Creating culturally responsive and affirming spaces where women can engage in conversations about HIV, sexual health, prevention, testing, and wellness while connecting with trusted information and resources.
Community Support
Chat Care Connect
A peer-centered support initiative creating opportunities for women living with HIV to connect through conversation, education, wellness, and community.
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Empowering young people with knowledge, resources, and connections.
Engaging Kare creates opportunities for youth and young adults to engage with trusted health information in ways that are accessible, relevant, and connected to their experiences.
Youth Initiative
KARE Compass Youth Initiative
The KARE Compass Youth Initiative creates engaging opportunities for youth and young adults to build health knowledge, access trusted resources, and participate in conversations that support informed and healthy decision-making.
Community Health
Partnerships that bring public health closer to community.
Building trusted community partnerships and experiences that make public health information more visible, accessible, relevant, and actionable.
Community Collaboration
Black Excellence Coalition
A collaborative community approach bringing organizations together around HIV testing, prevention, PrEP access, treatment, retention, and community health education.
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Conversation + Digital Storytelling
Talk with Koiya
Live conversations and digital storytelling that combine authentic dialogue, health education, community engagement, and access to HIV testing and prevention resources.
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Bringing health conversations into trusted faith spaces.
Partnering with faith communities to create trusted spaces where health education, prevention, wellness, and community connection can happen together.
Annual Initiative
Gospel Fest
Gospel Fest brings faith, music, and community health together in an affirming environment where participants can access HIV education, testing, prevention information, and connections to community resources.
Signature Initiative
A Walk for Change
A Walk for Change brings the community together to raise awareness, reduce HIV-related stigma, and generate financial support for organizations providing HIV prevention, testing, care, and support services.
Visit A Walk for ChangeOne Framework. Multiple Approaches.
How our work connects to KARE.
Across our initiatives, the KARE Framework helps Engaging Kare bring together the people, access, resources, and education needed to strengthen community health.
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Key Stakeholders
Building partnerships across community, healthcare, education, philanthropy, and other sectors.
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Access
Creating opportunities for people to connect with education, prevention, services, and supportive resources.
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Resources
Connecting communities with trusted information, organizations, services, and public health resources.
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Elite Education
Developing high-quality learning experiences that strengthen knowledge and community capacity.
Work With Engaging Kare
Let's create healthier communities together.
Engaging Kare welcomes opportunities to collaborate with community organizations, healthcare partners, foundations, corporations, funders, and individuals who share our commitment to advancing community health.