Resource Category: Toolkit

Applying Status Neutral Approaches to End the HIV Epidemic in DC

This guide serves as a practical roadmap for healthcare providers, public health professionals, and community-based organizations seeking to implement the Status Neutral Approach in diverse settings. It provides actionable strategies, real-world case studies, and interactive exercises to help practitioners integrate prevention, care, and social services into a unified, person-centered model.

Learning Objectives

After completing this toolkit, the learner will be able to:

  • Explain the “whole person” mindset of the status neutral approach.
  • Describe the status neutral model.
  • List strategies for HIV prevention and treatment aligned with the status neutral approach.
  • Identify strategies for addressing common barriers to the status neutral approach.
  • Identify examples of successful status neutral implementation.

Calm in Crisis: A Survival Guide for Small Nonprofits

This toolkit is designed for small nonprofits or teams under 25 people, whose impact is big, but resources are small. Whether you are managing programs, fundraising, or overseeing operations, this toolkit will guide you step-by-step through crisis prevention, response, and recovery.  Small organizations frequently juggle multiple roles. Managing a crisis can feel overwhelming when resources are limited, and time is short. This toolkit is intended to make crisis preparedness and response feel more manageable by providing actionable steps, templates, and resources that you can quickly adapt to your specific nonprofit. Think of this as your “grab-and-go” plan for navigating challenges.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Describe preparedness measures to respond quickly and effectively to a multitude of crises. 
  • Identify Key Crisis Risks for Organizations. 
  • Explain the process of Post-Crisis Evaluation. 
  • Demonstrate Crisis Mitigation Strategies

Sexual Health Resources for Clients who Engage in Sex Work

This resource was created in an effort to reduce harm, facilitate safe sex practices and eradicate stigma in relation to sex and sex work. This toolkit has no political affiliation and does not serve as a political endorsement of any stance surrounding the nature of sex work.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to:

  • Understand the importance of knowing their status and be empowered to make healthy decisions
  • Utilize harm reduction in both sexual engagement and substance usage
  • Give an overview of the state of STDs, STIs and HIV in DC, along with susceptibility
  • Identify the importance of PrEP and PEP usage for those who are sexually active
  • Break down stigma in relation to both sex and sex work
  • Describe strategies for maintaining physical, mental, and sexual health in spite of legal barriers

Effective Strategies for Affirming and Engaging Transgender Clients

The purpose of this toolkit is to use an approach to health care delivery in which organizations, programs, and providers recognize, validate, and support the identity stated or expressed by the individuals served.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Apply patient-centered treatment strategies to provide holistic care for all clients, including mental health and outreach services.
  2. Facilitate safer and affirming strategies to engage and support Transgender communities.
  3. Outline marketing and outreach strategies to increase engagement and retention in care in Transgender individuals.
  4. Utilize trauma-informed approaches in care and delivery of services.
  5. Outline harm reduction practices and strategies specific to the needs of the DC EMA Transgender community.

Re-Entry Resources

This is a toolkit detailing the process of re-entry and provides re-entry resources. Please view the PDF for more information.

Non-profit Legal Basics Primer

This is a toolkit detailing a summary of key areas of law governing 501(c)(3) organizations, specifically those formed and operating in D.C. Please view the PDF for more information.