Prevention Supervisor
Legacy Community Health Services
Pendleton is a Prevention
Supervisor at Legacy Community Health Services, managing both the clinic-based
and the community-based testing and counseling programs. Pendleton’s expertise centers on the gay
community, and working with community leaders, bar and bathhouse owners and
high-risk populations. He has a great
deal of knowledge of drug use within the community. Pendleton specializes in working with
individuals that are currently using crystal methamphetamine, as well as in
recovery. Most recently, he has been a
key player in securing funds from the Texas Department of State Health Services
to provide a crystal meth awareness campaign for the Houston GLBT community. An assessment process was conducted in 2005;
the campaign will run during 2006, followed by the impact evaluation process in
2007.
Pendleton presents “Meth Madness”
a tell-all workshop including facts and figures about meth including frank
discussions at state and local conferences.
He was a featured speaker at “Tweaked”, a
Pendleton has presented Meth
Maddness: Crystal Meth and Its Link to HIV/STDs at the 14th Texas HIV/STD
Conference and two consecutive years at the Texas Outreach Workers Conference.