Resource Category: Webinar

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

HIV 101

This presentation covers the myths and facts about HIV and AIDS in Washington, DC and serves as an introduction to those new to the topic.

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Define HIV and AIDS
  2. Describe how HIV affects the body
  3. Identify the different types of antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV
  4. Describe the prevalence of HIV in the U.S. and in DC specifically among specific subpopulations
  5. List the routes by which HIV can and cannot be transmitted
  6. Define harm reduction techniques to reduce the risk of HIV transmission
  7. List the three types of HIV tests and how they are used

Faculty:
Corey Howell, CHES®

Understanding Implicit Bias in Healthcare

Implicit biases involve associations outside conscious awareness that can lead to negative, inaccurate, or unfair evaluations of a person on the basis of identity or social status. It is important for healthcare professionals to understand implicit bias because it can influence providers’ assessments of and behavior towards their clients. Unchecked implicit biases based on race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, and socioeconomic status can contribute to poorer health outcomes among marginalized groups of people.

This on-demand training will distinguish between explicit and implicit bias and discuss how to identify and change these biases in yourself and your colleagues.

Learning Objectives:

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

  • Explain the difference between implicit/unconscious and explicit bias.
  • Identify at least five types of bias present in healthcare.
  • Describe the effects of unconscious bias on everyday interactions with patients, students, colleagues, and team members. 
  • Describe how personal unconscious biases impact perceptions of gender, race/ethnicity, and/or cultural attributes in healthcare.
  • Provide strategies to correct or eliminate personal unconscious biases in daily interactions.

Nutrition, HIV, and Food Deserts in DC

The nutritional implications of living with HIV make having reliable access to nutritious food a necessity.  Food insecurity can curtail many positive individual health outcomes, especially in immunocompromised patients. This webinar seeks to address the relationship between nutrition and HIV, local food deserts in the Washington DC area, and how you can connect clients and their families to healthy and affordable food.

Intro to LinkU

This webinar provides instruction and an introduction to LinkU, a service provided DC Health to connect people to health, food, housing, and more services.

Identifying, Tracking, and Managing Ryan White Program Income (Fiscal Health Series)

Overview

This webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) program income requirements; offer various examples of what qualifies as program income; explain how to track and monitor program income; and explain how to effectively plan and budget program income for service expansion.

Learning Objectives

    • Identify program income tracking and management requirements for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
    • Describe examples of program income generation
    • Discuss methods for tracking, monitoring, and spending program income
    • Review methods to plan for, budget and spend program income

Implementing a Schedule of Charges & Caps on Charges (Fiscal Health Series)

Overview

This webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) requirements and expectations related to Schedule of Charges, imposition of charges, sliding fees schedule, and tools to help patients manage  out of pocket charges.

Learning Objectives

    • Identify the steps in client management: enrollment and eligibility, sliding fee scale and discount schedule, and cap on out-of-pocket charges
    • Describe the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) legislative requirements and program expectations as it relates to enrollment and eligibility, sliding fee scale and discount schedule, and cap on out-of-pocket charges
    • Design educational tools that can be provided to patients to assist in managing the sliding fee scale and cap on out-of-pocket charges