Kids Council-Caregivers League (KC-CGL) is an educational and quality of life network that provides information about HIV to its members and the community.

Kids' Council-Caregivers' League is:

• Teens -- Teen-age members help design their own programs as well as learn HIV facts, ways to educate the community about the disease, legal rights and confidentiality. Members also participate in educational and life-skills workshops designed to build self-esteem.
   
• Caregivers -- Caregivers who join KC-CGL develop support networks, learn coping skills and participate in knowledge-building seminars.
   
• Students and professionals in training -- Participants 15 years and older, including students, medical residents and fellows, educators and anyone interested in pursuing the mission of KC.

  See also Texas Children's Allergy and Immunology Clinic

  -CGL can become Texas Children's volunteers with placement in KC-CGL. Kids' Council.

  Volunteers are given the opportunity to foster greater understanding in their communities about HIV/AIDS, learn about the global impact of the disease and learn more about careers in HIV health care.
   

• Professionals -- Experienced health care professionals, including co-directors Dr. Lenora M. Noroski and Theresa Aldape, LMSW, staff in Texas Children's Allergy and Immunology Clinic and Baylor Allergy and Immunology staff, along with community members from various professions offer guidance and serve as resources to Kids Council and its members.

Workshops, projects and community collaborations
The council holds monthly workshops to help teens and caregivers understand HIV facts, develop community outreach projects and gain coping skills. Participants help design educational materials and drive the planning for workshop topics and community outreach events including:

• Addicks Middle School -- Community outreach program teaches HIV facts.
• Ryan White National Youth Conference on HIV/AIDS -- Teens conduct HIV education workshops.
• Writers in the Schools -- Teens and caregivers learn poetry and writing skills.
• Magic Earvin Johnson -- Teens and caregivers meet and learn HIV facts from Magic Johnson.
• The Ensemble Theatre, Houston -- Teens and young adults experience opportunities for life and career building through the arts.
• Camillian Social Center (Rayong, Thailand) -- Global HIV awareness fostered through pen-pal project.
• HIV-NAT Research Collaboration (Netherlands, Australia, Thailand) -- KC-CGL
  learn about children and families coping and living with HIV at the Bangkok Symposium on HIV medicine.

Freeze Play -- an HIV educational game
A key component of this educational process is Freeze Play^TM, a family friendly game geared toward teens and young adults. The game is available for public use here on Texas Children's Web site. Kids Council-Caregivers League members helped develop Freeze Play as a way to teach themselves and their peers about HIV.

Download Freeze Play^TM (in pdf format):

• Freeze Play Instructions, quick facts and survey
• Freeze Play Questions
• Freeze Play Answers with references and workshop

Other HIV/AIDS resources

• HIV glossary (pdf)
• Adolescents living with HIV/AIDS (pdf) from the CDC
• Adolescents and adults with HIV/AIDS by sex, from the CDC
• HIV: Myth or Fact (pdf)
• Reported AIDS cases by ethnicity (pdf) from the CDC

More information
The Kids Council-Caregivers League is a joint project of Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. Locations and meeting times vary, so please call or e-mail for information.