Brent Pendleton

Prevention Supervisor

Legacy Community Health Services

Houston, TX

 

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 Houston community forum on crystal meth and the link to HIV/STDs.  Pendleton has been featured in mainstream media such as the Houston Chronicle and the Houston Voice, detailing his personal experience with crystal meth.  He has been featured in the article “Kicking Crystal” in POZ magazine as well as contributing to articles in gay.com and lifeormeth.com.  Pendleton is also a cast member of “Meth”, a new documentary that sheds light on the growing problem of crystal meth within the gay community. 

 

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.