Vibe Check Tour
IGNITE HOPE. INSPIRE POSSIBILITIES. INSTILL CONFIDENCE.
The Vibe Check Tour brings free, youth-centered sexual health education and optional onsite testing to schools, churches, and community organizations across Arkansas. This page has everything media needs to cover the tour: the story, the schedule, the materials, and the partners.
Funded by the Arkansas Department of Health.
The Story
The Vibe Check Tour is the flagship outreach effort of Village Public Health's Vibe Safe Initiative. It started in 2025 with seven stops across four Arkansas counties, reaching young people where they already are: schools, juvenile centers, and community programs. The 2026 to 2027 tour builds on that reach with stops across Pulaski County and beyond.
The tour uses a syndemic approach: instead of treating HIV in isolation, our team screens and educates around HIV, other sexually transmitted infections, viral hepatitis, and substance use risk together, because these challenges show up in young people's lives together.
Our testing team completed the Arkansas Department of Health HIV Prevention Program syndemic training, which follows CDC requirements, and was certified in September 2026. Every stop is confidential, judgment free, and built on the belief that young people deserve real information and real respect.
2025
TOUR LAUNCHED
4
COUNTIES IN YEAR ONE
7
LOCATIONS IN YEAR ONE
Tour Schedule
Media are welcome at public stops. Contact us before attending so we can coordinate with the host site and protect student privacy.
Teen Summit: The Pinky Promise
A World AIDS Day healthy relationships summit for about 100 high school students across Central Arkansas, from public, private, charter, and homeschool settings.
Teen Summit: The Pinky Promise takes place on World AIDS Day, Tuesday, December 1, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at CALS Main Library, 100 Rock Street, Little Rock, AR 72201. The summit blends Relationship Smarts PLUS 5.1 from The Dibble Institute with Mind Matters 2.0 and Money Habitudes for Teens, and offers free health screenings including blood pressure, cholesterol, and BMI.
The event is hosted by the VPH Training Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN 93-1701910, and funded in part by an Arkansas Minority Health Commission Mini-Grant. Resource tables are free to host. Sponsorships are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
DEC 1, 2026
WORLD AIDS DAY
10 AM - 2 PM
CALS MAIN LIBRARY, ROOM 532
100
STUDENT GOAL
Teen Summit: The Pinky Promise, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
CALS Main Library, 100 Rock Street, Little Rock, AR 72201
Media are welcome. Contact us before attending so we can coordinate with the venue and protect student privacy. Media contact: Dr. Quinyatta Mumford, quinyatta@villagepublichealth.org, or hello@villagepublichealth.org, 501-229-9220.
Materials and Services
ONSITE RAPID TESTING
OraQuick rapid HIV tests with results in about 20 minutes, plus syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and hepatitis C screening by request. All testing is confidential and run by our ADH-trained, certified testing team.
MYP SIZING KITS AND SAFER SEX SUPPLIES
MYP condom sizing kits, condoms, and condom keychains that make protection personal, discreet, and judgment free.
EVIDENCE-BASED CURRICULUM MATERIALS
Relationship Smarts PLUS 5.0 books and STI and HIV prevention education materials from nationally recognized programs, free for qualifying programs.
LINKAGE TO CARE
Every preliminary positive is followed by confirmatory testing and immediate connection to care. No young person leaves a stop without a next step.
All testing is confidential and voluntary. Preliminary positives are followed by confirmatory testing and immediate linkage to care.
