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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.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this session, you will be able to:

  • Identify at least three common mental health challenges that children, adolescents, and young adults face when living with HIV.
  • Describe how mental health challenges can impact medical care and treatment.
  • Describe at least three ways to address the particular mental health challenges that children, adolescents, and young adults living with HIV face in order to improve their self-perceived health and reception of medical treatment.

Continuing education credits are available for this session.

Women’s Health: Strength, Wisdom, and Courage

This on-demand webinar provides an overview of prevention and treatment interventions for women living with HIV in the DC area, including identification of social services that will help to eliminate barriers to care.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this training, you will be able to:

  • Discuss qualitative data for development of population-based HIV interventions.
  • Explain HIV/STI trends among women in the DC area using surveillance reports.
  • Identify social barriers to HIV care for women.
  • Describe trauma informed approaches for women in HIV care.
  • Identify HIV support services available to women in DC.

Continuing education credits are available for this training.

Speakers: Ashley Coleman, Kate Drezner, Rosa Martinez, Daijah Tiffani Walters

Syphilis: “I’m Still Here.”

Prevention and Treatment of Syphilis

Syphilis cases continue to increase throughout the US and are at an all-time high. This on-demand webinar provides an overview of best practices for prevention of syphilis, syphilis screening, recognizing the stages of syphilis, and proper treatment protocols.

Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, you will be able to:

  • Recognize the stages of syphilis.
  • Identify syphilis screening recommendations for specific populations. 
  • Explain syphilis testing procedures and algorithms.
  • Describe syphilis prevention and treatment recommendations.

Continuing education credits are available for this session.

Faculty: 
Tyson R. Anderson, MPH, MSN, CRNP
Tyson R. Anderson is a Clinical Registered Nurse Practitioner providing HIV primary care and other sexual health services at Us Helping Us. Prior to working at Us Helping Us, Tyson spent 14 years at Jefferson County Department of Health providing routine sexual health care visits, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), non-occupational post exposure prophylaxis (nPEP), and hepatitis C evaluation and treatment.

HIV and the Latino/a/x Community

The Latino/a/x community is made up of diverse populations who often experience barriers to accessing equitable HIV care and services. This leads to poorer health outcomes and rates of retention in care among these populations. Culturally-responsive strategies can help providers break down systemic barriers in order to increase engagement in care.

This webinar will equip providers with a comprehensive understanding of Latino/a/x culture, the barriers to testing and access to care that Latino/a/x people encounter, and best practices for engaging this community in HIV services.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, you will be able to:

  • Discuss the Latino/a/x demographic and the composition of the population.
  • Identify the social determinants of health and their impacts on the Latino/a/x community when accessing HIV services.
  • Describe best practices to create and develop new initiatives to reach the Latino/a/x community.
  • Describe techniques to engage Latina women and girls in accessing HIV services, testing, and care.  

NOTE: This session does NOT offer continuing education credits.

Faculty: Yelitza Lemoine, CAN Community Health

El VIH y la Comunidad Latina/x: Creación de una solución para el acceso a la atención

La comunidad latina/x está formada por diversas poblaciones que a menudo experimentan barreras para acceder a una atención y unos servicios para el VIH equitativos. Esto conduce a peores resultados de salud y tasas de retención en la atención entre estas poblaciones. Las estrategias culturalmente sensibles pueden ayudar a los proveedores a derribar las barreras sistémicas con el fin de aumentar la participación en la atención.

Este seminario web proporcionará a los proveedores una comprensión exhaustiva de la cultura latina, las barreras a las pruebas y el acceso a la atención que encuentran las personas latinas y las mejores prácticas para involucrar a esta comunidad en los servicios relacionados con el VIH.

Nota: Créditos de educación continua no están disponibles para esta sesión.

Facultad: Yelitza Lemoine, CAN Community Health

Objetivos de aprendizaje:
Al finalizar esta sesión, usted podrá:

  • Discutir la demografía latina/x y la composición de la población.
  • Identificar los determinantes sociales de la salud y sus impactos en la comunidad latina al acceder a los servicios de VIH.
  • Describir las mejores prácticas para crear y desarrollar nuevas iniciativas para llegar a la comunidad latina/x. 
  • Describir técnicas para involucrar a las mujeres y niñas latinas en el acceso a los servicios, las pruebas y la atención del VIH.

Grant Year 33 Provider Kick-off Meeting, Part B

HAHSTA’s Care and Treatment Division’s Ryan White Grant Year 33 Part B Provider Kick-off Meeting took place Wednesday, March 29, 2023 from 10am to 12:45pm.

Meeting Agenda

Session Recordings

Presentations

Resources

Program Resources

Program Documents

Monthly Monitoring Tools for Part B GY 33

Ryan White Policies & Procedures for Part B GY 33

CareWare

Quality Documents for Part B GY 33

Monitoring & Evaluation for Part B GY 33

Fiscal Resources

The Provider Perspective: Prioritizing the Uptake and Engagement of PrEP in BIPOC Communities

This session provides participants with an overview on primary PrEP care and the challenges providers can face with access, adherence, and retention in Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain the importance of increasing PrEP utilization among BIPOC Communities. 
  2. Summarize  PrEP formulations and guidelines. 
  3. Describe patient and provider concerns regarding PrEP use. 
  4. Identify barriers and opportunities to engage and retain BIPOC communities in PrEP uptake.

Faculty:
Dr. Tyris Ford, DNP, NP-C, FNP-BC, AAHIVS

Ending the HIV Epidemic by Being the Change You Seek

This webinar provides participants with an overview of HIV criminalization laws and data, along with strategies for combating HIV stigma and advocating for decriminalization.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, you will be able to:

  • Define HIV criminalization and identify the data that is most alarming.
  • Explain five reasons why criminalization is a problem.
  • Describe the nuances of strategy vs. implementation in legislative success.

About the Speaker:

Living with Black Girl Magic, HIV, and chronic optimism, Kamaria Laffrey serves nationally as a speaker, advocate, and Co-Managing Director for HIV policy reform with The SERO Project, and a spokesperson for treatment adherence and self-care campaign Positively Fearless with Janssen. Her local work extends to rural and underserved areas, as she serves on the FL Dept. of Health Community HIV Advisory Group and is a member of the West Central FL Ryan White Care Council. She also co-leads the FL HIV Justice Coalition to modernize laws that criminalize Floridians for their HIV status. In these roles, Kamaria believes that when she represents PLHIV she is lifting Black women living with HIV, their presence is visible, and their power is not denied.

Please note that continuing education credits are not available for this session.

Grant Year 33 Provider Kick-off Meeting, Part A


Meeting Content Archive

Meeting Agenda

Session Recordings

Meeting Presentations

Fiscal Resources

Program Resources

CAREWare

Monitoring and Evaluation

Quality

RSR Information

Ryan White Policies and Procedures

Service Standards

Staffing Plan

Scope of Services

Work Plan

Ryan White Program Compendium of Services

Monthly Reporting Tool

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Winter Wellness: Reimaging Mental Health

Healthcare providers have continued to experience worsening mental health symptoms, which can be exacerbated during the holiday season. This offering reimagines mental health as an essential component of whole-body wellness, identifies coping strategies to re-set, refocus and refresh, and provides an understanding of people-centered resources.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Examine the importance of mental health in expanding providers’ overall health and quality of life
  2. Explore communication tools, self-care strategies, and coping techniques to counter holiday stressors
  3. Identify community and workplace resources to reduce stress, improve mental health, and provide healthy options for self-care.

Faculty:
Ebony Johnson, A Drop of Prevention