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Digital Technology, HIV Prevention and Care Post COVID-19; Part II: What is Digital Outreach Marketing? (Webinar)

Description:

COVID-19 demands that organizations engage in new conversations about how best to engage and service their community around prevention, treatment and care. This is a great time to learn how to use all tools available to reach and engage our target audiences, developing trust, delivering education, engaging populations at risk on better sexual health practices and harvesting allies in the community that believe in us and will help us bring others to use our services.  The rapid spread of COVID-19 reminds us how our wellbeing is interconnected, and the flurry of heartwarming responses people have exhibited in the face of this crisis reveals our tremendous willingness and ability to help one another. These truths will persist when life goes back to normal.

Whether you have an event already in mind or you are looking for ideas, this webinar is your all-access pass. Here are some of the topics that are addressed:

  • How-to tutorials and classes
  • Virtual conferences/webinars
  • Interviews and performances
  • Live tweeting
  • How to host a virtual event (and tools that can help)
  • Social livestreams

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify strategic use of social media tools
  • Improve data collection by using social media and digital marketing
  • Strengthen connection with target population using virtual/digital tools

Digital Technology, HIV Prevention and Care Post COVID-19; Part I: Remote Work will Become Strategic (Webinar)

Description:

COVID-19 demands that organizations engage in new conversations about how best to engage and service their community around prevention, treatment and care. This is a great time to learn how to use all tools available to reach and engage our target audiences, developing trust, delivering education, engaging populations at risk on better sexual health practices and harvesting allies in the community that believe in us and will help us bring others to use our services.  The rapid spread of COVID-19 reminds us how our wellbeing is interconnected, and the flurry of heartwarming responses people have exhibited in the face of this crisis reveals our tremendous willingness and ability to help one another. These truths will persist when life goes back to normal.

Whether you have an event already in mind or you are looking for ideas, this webinar is your all-access pass. Here are some of the topics that are addressed:

  • How-to tutorials and classes
  • Virtual conferences/webinars
  • Interviews and performances
  • Live tweeting
  • How to host a virtual event (and tools that can help)
  • Social livestreams

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify tools available to make remote work efficient; create, storage, share documents, and collaborate with co-workers
  • Discuss the use and benefits of the cloud
  • Identify ways to protect private documents

Health Equity Part I: Cross Cutting Determinants of Health Equity (Webinar)

Description:

This 3 part webinar series introduced and provided the necessary skills for participants to collaborate across disciplines by building bridges to achieve health equity in their respective communities. The webinar series introduced participants to the essential components and evidence based research designed to move organizations towards health equity. Utilizing a socio-ecological context to identify cross cutting determinants and data collection, organizations can determine if the data is best used to advance policy, strengthen community capacity, build partnerships or target use of resources. Ultimately, this 3 part series encouraged participants to lead organizations with a health equity focus. This was an interactive webinar series complete with case studies, etc. for optimal participant engagement. Health care professionals, social workers, educators and advocates for justice were encouraged to attend this webinar series.

Learning Objectives: Webinar l:

By the end of this webinar, participants were able to:

  • Define health equity and other related terms
  • Identify the socio-ecological framework and your organization’s role
  • Discuss the capacity of your organization as it relates to health equity

Engaging Reentry Population Part lll: Evidence Based Practices to Reduce Recidivism (Webinar)

Description:

Formerly incarcerated individuals/returning citizens have significant and complex challenges upon integrating back into society. As health care professionals, social workers, educators and advocates for justice, this webinar series seeked to engage persons of interest in a 3-part series where participants described systemic challenges as it relates to the social determinants of health, followed by the role of HIV/HCV/substance misuse plays in their lives and closing with how to foster retention and linkage to care via best practices. This series was best suited for those who were currently working with this population and wanted to sharpen their skills in the field.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify systemic barriers to care
  • Reduce barriers through collaboration
  • Discuss evidence based practices to link and retain returning citizens in care

Engaging Reentry Population Part ll: Facts and Figures in the Health of Reentry Populations (Webinar)

Description:

Formerly incarcerated individuals/returning citizens have significant and complex challenges upon integrating back into society. As health care professionals, social workers, educators and advocates for justice, this webinar series seeked to engage persons of interest in a 3-part series where participants described systemic challenges as it relates to the social determinants of health, followed by the role of HIV/HCV/substance misuse plays in their lives and closing with how to foster retention and linkage to care via best practices. This series was best suited for those who were currently working with this population and wanted to sharpen their skills in the field.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the prevalence of chronic and infectious diseases in jail/prison
  • Discuss the role of substance misuse and mental health illness
  • Discuss best practices to improve health outcomes for returning citizens

Engaging Reentry Population Part l: The Role of Social Determinants of Health in Reentry Populations (Webinar)

Description:
Formerly incarcerated individuals/returning citizens have significant and complex challenges upon integrating back into society. As health care professionals, social workers, educators and advocates for justice, this webinar series seeked to engage persons of interest in a 3-part series where participants described systemic challenges as it relates to the social determinants of health, followed by the role of HIV/HCV/substance misuse plays in their lives and closing with how to foster retention and linkage to care via best practices. This series was best suited for those who were currently working with this population and wanted to sharpen their skills in the field.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define and identify the social determinants of health
  • Identify demographics of those incarcerated
  • Discuss the role of the social determinants of health in mass incarceration (recidivism)
  • Identify the impact of incarceration on health outcomes

Hi-V Regional Early Intervention Services: Policy & Procedure Writing Workshop

Writing and maintaining policies and procedures is a critical component of an effective and compliant Ryan White Early Intervention Services (EIS) program. This workshop focused on defining the EIS service category and targeted HIV testing, covered the key elements of policies and procedures, and gave participants the opportunity to practice writing policies and procedures for their EIS program.

 

Learning Objectives were:

  • Discuss key components of RWHAP Policy Clarification Notice 16-02 (Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services: Eligible Individuals & Allowable Uses of Funds)
  • Define RWHAP Service Categories (Early Intervention Services, Health Education/Risk Reduction, Outreach)
  • List the components of HIV Targeted Testing
  • Identify key components of Early Intervention Services policies and procedures
  • Describe methods for developing program policies and procedures
  • Practice writing policies and procedures for Early Intervention Services

Health Literacy: Leveraging Tools to Enhance Client Outcomes

Description:

This training reviewed how health literacy has an impact on client health outcomes. Participants learned about and practiced using various tools for assessing health literacy in their client population.

 

Learning Objectives were:

  • Define health literacy
  • List three barriers that can prevent a person from becoming health literate
  • Identify two potential negative outcomes for clients who have low health literacy
  • Identify twelve (12) tools for assessing client health literacy
  • Implement at least three (3) selected tools with clients

Do No Harm: Incorporating Harm Reduction Strategies into Patient-Centered Care

This workshop was for front-line staff looking to enhance their use of harm reduction strategies in practice. Participants discussed harm reduction and its role in patient-centered care,  explored organizational workflow and competency in working with active drug users, and practiced implementing harm reduction tools through hands-on demonstrations.

Learning Objectives:

  • Examine how personal beliefs about people who use drugs affect service delivery
  • Define the components of harm reduction
  • Discuss the components of patient-centered care
  • Describe what a needle/syringe exchange program is and how it relates to harm reduction
  • Identify 5 harm reduction ‘tips and tricks’ to use with clients

Ryan White Part A Fiscal Monitoring Standards (Webinar)

Description:

This webinar provided a comprehensive overview of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Part A Fiscal Monitoring Standards. This presentation covered the structure of the fiscal monitoring standards and the relationship between the direct recipient of RWHAP Part A funds and sub recipients/contracts. The presentation included an overview of the site monitoring process and the responsibilities of both the recipient and sub recipient, as well as the expectation of policies and procedures and documented evidence of compliance with the fiscal monitoring standards. The presentation concluded with a discussion of the components of the Fiscal Monitoring Standards.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the structure of the Fiscal Monitoring Standards
  • Identify the differences between a recipient, a sub-recipient, and a contractor
  • Discuss RWHAP Monitoring Requirements between a Recipient and a Sub-recipient
  • Identify the difference and expectations regarding policies and procedures
  • Describe the components of the Fiscal Monitoring Standards and required components for compliance