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Addressing Stigma and Stigmatizing Language in the Workplace

Stigma is one of the biggest challenges in HIV prevention and care. The negative, often subliminal, impact of stigmatizing language can leave people living with HIV feeling “less-than.” Stigmatization can be eliminated through the combined efforts of clinical and non-clinical staff, the community, and even patients by learning and integrating improved terminology.
This thought-provoking webinar addresses stigmatizing language used when talking about HIV, mental health, and substance use disorders and how this language perpetuates bias in the workplace.

The Sum of the Parts—Intersectionality and Health

Using intersectionality as an analytic lens highlights the multiple nature of individual identities and how varying combinations of class, gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship categories can differentially affect the health outcomes of individuals. This webinar discusses overlapping identities and experiences that can affect health outcomes and strategies for achieving health equity.

DC Health Ryan White Services Standards: Hospice Services

This course describes the Services standards elements and expectations all Ryan White service providers are to follow when implementing Hospice Services. Service Standards define the minimal acceptable levels of quality in service delivery and to ensure that a uniformity of service exists in the Washington, DC Eligible Metropolitan Area (EMA).

Men’s Health: Your Health is Your Wealth

In most settings, men are less engaged in healthcare services and have worse health outcomes than women. Strategies aimed at engaging men in healthcare have proven effective. This webinar will provide an overview of common health issues among men, how to engage and empower men to take control of their health, and strategies to overcome barriers to care for men.

Faculty

Tyris D. Ford, DNP, NP-C, FNP-BC
TNJ Direct Primary Care, LLC

Jerry Washington, Heart to Hand

Lawerency Boone, DC Health

Corrie Franks, Family Medical and Counseling Services

Pablo Moulden, Nova Salud

Synergy in Care: Embracing and Empowering Community Healthcare Workers

This webinar explores the role of community health workers (CHWs) in improving health outcomes. The faculty will review strategies for integrating CHWs into clinical teams, effective communication and collaboration with CHWs, and best practices for supervision and training. Participants will also learn about the potential benefits and challenges of integrating CHWs into the clinical workforce. By participating in this webinar, healthcare professionals will gain the necessary skills to effectively collaborate with CHWs and improve healthcare access and outcomes for their patients.

Supporting Clients Through the Stages of Change with Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an approach designed to support people who are working on making behavioral changes. Providers can use MI skills to help clients identify their reasons for making these changes, empowering them with insights necessary for successful long-term management of chronic conditions and associated lifestyle behaviors.

This interactive webinar defines, describes, and demonstrates motivational interviewing. It will present key concepts and principles of MI as a set of methods employed to help people increase intrinsic motivation by exploring and resolving ambivalence about behavioral change. 

Engaging Youth in HIV Prevention and Care

This webinar provides an overview of developmental aspects of youth that are living with HIV/AIDS, including challenges and/or barriers to prevention, treatment, and medical adherence to care.

Breaking Barriers: Biomedical Interventions Paving the Way to Ending the HIV Epidemic in the US

This webinar delves into the context and state of the HIV epidemic, different forms of PrEP and PrEP formulations, how PrEP is utilized, side effects of PrEP use, and barriers to accessing methods of HIV prevention and treatment. The faculty will present case studies to illustrate these topics, and will also provide strategies for implementing biomedical interventions with the goal of furthering health equity.

The Intersection of Mental Health and HIV Among Youth

People with HIV (PWH) – especially children, adolescents, and young adults – are at an increased risk for developing mental health disorders compared to those who don’t have HIV. PWH commonly internalize negative attitudes and beliefs resulting from widespread HIV stigma, which leads to poor mental health outcomes and difficulty medically managing HIV. Challenges with mental health can negatively affect engagement in medical care and adherence to medical treatment.

This webinar will increase the audience’s understanding of mental health challenges among children, adolescents, and young adults with HIV. The webinar will provide strategies for addressing particular needs and promoting overall physical and mental health.

The Effects of the Social Determinants of Health on Intimate Partner Violence

This self-paced module covers how the effects of various social determinants of health affect both intimate partner violence and the spread of HIV.

This activity is intended for physicians, pharmacists, registered nurses, PAs, psychologists, social workers and other healthcare providers engaged in the care of patients with HIV.