Today's young people are the first generation who have never known a world without HIV and AIDS. In the United States, one in three new HIV infections is among youth ages 13 to 24. Despite this harsh reality, young people and their allies are determined to end this pandemic once and for all.

1. Welcome to the
PY1 Virtual Office in
Second Life
on Nonprofit Commons
Event Sponsored by
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
in support of
National Black HIV/AIDS
Awareness Day
February 7 , 2013
Protect Yourself 1, Inc. (PY1), a Non-Profit Corporation with Federal Tax
Exempt Status 501 (c) (3) operating in Maryland since August 2005.

2. National Black HIV/AIDS
Awareness Day
There are more than 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in
the United States, including more than 510,000 African-Americans.
Although Blacks represent only 12 percent of the U.S. population,
they account for 44 percent of new cases of HIV every year and
44 percent of those living with HIV. According to the CDC,
although Black teens represent only 15 percent of all U.S. teenagers,
they account for 70 percent of all new AIDS diagnoses among teens.
Despite all the efforts to educate and uplift,
HIV still remains a serious issue for the African American community,
one that can’t be deemed important just one day out of the year.

3. PY1 is a media-driven agency with a focus on
providing HIV Awareness, Education and Prevention
in innovative ways.
PY1 has a history of development and implementation
of social marketing media campaigns and services
in Baltimore, Maryland and regionally.

4. Our Mission
to increase Awareness, Education, and Prevention of HIV and related diseases
by using art, entertainment, ecology, events, horses,
nature, games, and virtual reality
to foster a sense of individual responsibility that
encourages positive behavioral change.
Our Goals
to decrease the taboos, myths and stigma associated with the HIV virus,
and to lower the number of new infections by reducing risk behaviors.

5. PY1's Educational and Entertainment Program features:
• Safe2Live: a social marketing media campaign targeting youth 8 - 13
• Great2Know: a college tour targeting young adults 16 - 24
• Protect Yourself: a media campaign targeting adults
• Project Arrowhead: nature and horses service targeting youth 10 - 16
The PY1 campaigns and services provide HIV and STD
Awareness, Education, and Prevention for
underserved at-risk populations.

6. Safe2Live
Our Safe2Live© team uses:
• a Public Service Announcement
• the Mobile Puppet Theater
• our website, safe2Live.org
• a virtual world presence in JokaydiaGrid
as accessible outreach tools, for engaging and
educating the most vulnerable demographic and
target audience: youth ages 8-13.•

7. Safe2Live Movies
• PSA
• Mobile Puppet Theater
• Safe2Live in JokaydiaGrid
• Safe2Live event in a Baltimore City
Public School
All movies are streamed in
the PY1 Second Life office.
You can also watch them on
youtube.com/safe2live, or on
the protectyourself1.org website .

8. Mobile Puppet Theater
Safe2Live features a
Mobile Puppet Theater, sponsored by
The Annie E. Casey Foundation.
It offers a fun, entertaining, and
interactive outreach for educating
youth ages 8-13 in targeted
communities that are at risk for
HIV/AIDS transmission.
The effectiveness of Safe2Live’s
Mobile Puppet Theater, a science-
based program, is proven by the
documented results of the pre and
post surveys.

9. Safe2Live in JokaydiaGrid
• Safe2Live: using the virtual platform of JokaydiaGRID to engage
AT-RISK Youth for HIV Prevention
• The Mobile Puppet Theater characters are integrated into the OpenSim
virtual world platform. They help educate the targeted audiences via videos,
self-paced games and quizzes, information note cards, and themed music.
PY1 in OpenSim
JokaydiaGRID
Region: PY1 (177, 90, 24)
http://jokaydiagrid.com/
http://jokaydia.metaverseworlds.com/:8002

10. Safe2Live in JokaydiaGrid
Creating the Safe2Live in OpenSim/ JokaydiaGrid
allows the campaign to provide information,
resources and support for under-served
populations nationally and internationally.
OpenSim is the ideal option for elementary
school students, teachers, and parents looking
to experience 3D science-based learning.
The creation of virtual-world-based Safe2Live
e-learning experience gives community
stakeholders, community based organizations,
educators and parents another way to educate
youth about HIV and STD prevention, HIV/AIDS-
associated stigma, and commonly associated
challenges related to the AIDS epidemic.

11. Avatars Team
Ricky Davis
Social Media Director
SL Avatar: Dyverse Steele
JokaydiaGRID Avatar: ?????
Monique Richert
Executive Director
SL Avatar: Chayenn
JokaydiaGRID Avatar: monique richert
Jacques Macaire
Sustainable Development Director
SL Avatar: jacmacaire humby

12. Safe2Live
We believe that, by adapting Safe2Live
intervention to a virtual world format,
we have created a cost-effective and proven
model, that can serve many more youth,
not just in Baltimore City,
but literally anywhere.

13. Safe2Live Sponsors
Protect Yourself 1, Inc. realizes that when we educate our youth,
we also protect the future of our communities and nation.
The more pre-adolescents are informed and made aware of safe choices,
the more the incidence of HIV and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
can be reduced in our communities.
And, subsequently, the quality of life there can be improved.
Educating youth at a young age,
and showing a respect for their knowledge,
is what is needed to help avoid an increase of HIV and STD infections.

14. Protect Yourself
The Protect Yourself Campaign is designed to impact adults and
seniors with positive messages of responsibility and awareness,
through various media,
including a 5-minute Protect Yourself music video,
a 30-second Public Service Announcement,
and the multi-lingual Stop Signs Project.

15. Great2Know
Great2Know is PY1’s newest campaign,
which uses live speakers, music, video, and DJ performances
to bring our content to colleges around the nation.

16. Project Arrowhead
The Project Arrowhead service encourages
awareness and education for all youth,
especially those living in high-risk areas
where HIV and related diseases have an
alarming infection rate.
The service, using hands-on activities
involving the wild horse, nature, yoga
and ecology, delivers an overall message
of social and personal awareness and
responsibility, which helps the youth
develop a sense of mutual respect for
themselves, their future as Americans,
and the iconic wild Mustang, and by doing
so increases positive youth behaviors
and wild horse preservation.

17. Let’s have fun with DJ Steele!
Dyverse Steele airs PSAs Safe2Live and Protect Yourself
from his online radio station

18. In 2012, Protect Yourself 1 was recognized
for its exceptional performance by
special thanks to:
NPC

19. Thank you !!!
Contact Us
Monique Richert/Chayenn
Ricky Davis /Dyverse Steele
443 491 3634
info@PY1.org
Follow us
Twitter.com/PY1US
Facebook.com/PY1US
youtube.com/safe2live
youtube.com/protectyourself1
protectyourself1.org