Federal agency that administers the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP), which helps low-income people with HIV receive care.
Case managers, as members of a Ryan White care team, help patients navigate the health care and social services systems. They also help clinicians coordinate and implement care plans. Medical case managers provide essential education and follow-up to make sure that patients understand the importance of adherence to treatment and keeping both routine and specialty appointments.
Resources and TA/Training for Case Managers
Find Technical Assistance and Training for current projects that deliver support to RWHAP agencies.
Explore Case Management for tools on case management and support services. Also, search or browse by these topics:
- Best Practices - This collection of HIV service interventions have been reviewed for their demonstrated effectiveness at improving client health outcomes.
- Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative - EHE is focused on four pillars: diagnose, treat, prevent, and respond in hard hit jurisdictions.
- Health Coverage - Learn about enrolling clients in health coverage as well as billing and contracting with payers.
- Key Populations - These resources address cultural competency, as well as challenging situations such as incarceration, homelessness, and rural settings. Approaches and considerations for serving special populations such as gay/bisexual men (MSM), women, adolescents, transgender people, and women, are also documented.
- People with HIV & Community Involvement - Tools for patient education, models and best practices for peer programs, advisory boards, and patient involvement initiatives.
Stay Informed - Sign up for HRSA-supported RWHAP listservs.
Key Resources
Website
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Best Practices
- Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and HealthResources to help clinics integrate community health workers (CHW) into an HIV multidisciplinary team model.
- AIDS Action Foundation
Workbooks describing ways to help connect people living with HIV/AIDS to medical care. Estos cuadernos describen la manera de asistir a conectar personas que viven con VIH/SIDA con el sistema médico.
Documents
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB), NASTAD
CPAPA is no longer being updated by NASTAD and has been replaced by Pharmaceutical Company Patient Assistance Programs and Cost-Sharing Assistance Programs.
- NASTAD
Review of the basics of trauma and modules on trauma-informed approaches in the delivery of HIV care.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Performance measures to help Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program agencies monitor and improve the quality of care they deliver.
- In It Together
Health literacy training initiative to help health professionals incorporate health literacy approaches into their services.
Clinical care guides for various populations (based upon their racial, ethnic, and gender characteristics) and specific conditions.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB), IHIP
Tools on ways to expand/replicate innovative models of oral health care for people with HIV.
- Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health, HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Training compendium for agencies seeking to develop programs that utilize peers to help engage and retain other people with HIV in care. Also en Espanol: Componentes Esenciales para la Capacitación y Éxito de los Trabajadores Pares (Peers)