Toolkit to help Health Centers expand the provision of HIV services.
Involvement of staff from a range of professions is utilized by some HIV care agencies so that varied client issues can be addressed within the context of a single agency’s care team. Disciplines may include not only HIV clinical care but also opioid treatment, population-specific care expertise, and other areas of experience.
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Best Practices and Emerging Models
- HRSA Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- IHIPThe Maricopa County Jail Project was implemented by five jails and uses a nurse practitioner to manage service access and case management across the jail system.
- Center for Innovation and EngagementCollection of implementation guides on evidence-informed best practices in HIV care delivery.
- SPNS Latino Access Initiative, UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
Monographs describing interventions for the engagement and retention of Latinos in HIV care.
- Boston University School of Public Health
Resources to help clinics integrate community health workers (CHW) into an HIV multidisciplinary team model.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Examination of potential areas for bi-directional sharing between the U.S. Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
- HRSA/SPNS Workforce Initiative
Insights on operating Care Teams: multidisciplinary collection of providers who work together to meet multiple patient needs to improve care delivery and outcomes. Best practices cover: preparation, staffing, buy-in, formalization, and adaptability.
- SPNS Transgender Women of Color Initiative
Innovative models for linking and retaining transgender women of color in HIV care, developed by a multi-site demonstration project.
- Center for Advancing Health Policy and Practice
Insights from a HRSA SPNS initiative on care coordinator/patient navigation interventions for vulnerable populations.
- SPNS Systems Linkages Project
Insights from a multi-state demonstration and evaluation of innovative models for linkages to and retention in HIV care.
- Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health
SPNS innovative and replicable HIV service delivery models using HIV+ peers.
- AIDS Alliance for Children Youth and Families
Resource for programs interested in developing or expanding outreach services to identify HIV-positive youth and engage and retain them in care.
- Center for Innovation and EngagementBilingual/Bicultural Care Team that provides comprehensive culturally and linguistically appropriate HIV primary care and services to Hispanic and Latino people with HIV who speak Spanish as their primary language.
- Center for Innovation and EngagementLink-Up Rx is a data to care (D2C) program that aims to increase retention in care and viral suppression among people with HIV by using prescription refill information to decrease the length of time between refills and reduce antiretroviral therapy (ART) interruption.
Resources
- In It Together
Health literacy training initiative to help health professionals incorporate health literacy approaches into their services.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Toolkit for implementing a program to support HIV-positive youth transitioning from adolescent to adult HIV care.
- Yale University School of Medicine
Guide on how to implement an opt-out HIV testing program in a jail setting.
- SPNS Sexually Transmitted Infections InitiativeTools to help clinics improve screening, testing, and treatment of common bacterial STIs among people with HIV or at risk for HIV.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Guide to best practices for enhancing services to youth with HIV to better outcomes in both retention and viral load suppression.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Insights on ways that HIV care programs have improved health outcomes along the HIV care continuum.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB), Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health
Toolkit for planning a peer training program for HIV-positive peers who work to engage and retain people with HIV in health care.
Training Modules
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Resources on HCV treatment among HIV coinfected patients.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Training materials and a curriculum on implementing a project to enhance HIV health services between community and jail settings, based on insights from the SPNS initiative, Enhancing Linkages to HIV Primary Care & Services in Jail Settings Initiative.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Learning tools on how to engage hard-to-reach people with HIV into care, including a training manual (for adapting SPNS models); a curriculum (for training staff); and webinars on key topics.
- IHIP
Overview of training manual and curriculum (along with webinars) on integrating opioid addiction treatment using buprenorphine.
Webinars and Training
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Pre-application webinars for Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announcements from HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP).
- Center for Engaging Black MSM across the Care Continuum
Web training site to educate providers on the delivery of HIV health care services for black men who have sex with men to enhance engagement/retention in care.
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-in)Recordings of the TAP-in webinars on topics critical to the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative.
- IHIPPresentation on an intervention to expand HIV workforce capacity through the use of strategic community-based partnerships.
- IHIPReview of Practice Transformation/Transformative Models (PTMs) to improve delivery of HIV services.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)Highlight of two programs that successfully engaged in HIV care clients who are hard-to-reach and serve via delivery of HIV primary care, behavioral health, and housing.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)Learn how two successful programs are addressing homelessness and housing instability and behavioral health disorders, improving client engagement and retention in care, and observing improved rates of viral suppression.
- IHIPTested resources for implementing jail linkage programs and assisting organizations in expanding their current jail work. Includes a manual, curriculum, fact sheets, and webinars.
- Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health
Cross-disciplinary training curriculum to increase knowledge and awareness of the relationship between HIV infection and substance use. Also available in Spanish (Version en español).
Conference Presentations
Yale University School of Medicine
Presenters:
Anthony Eller, Kimberly Johnson, Elizabeth DiDomizio, Lynn Madden, Jennifer Olivia, Frederick Altice
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
Oregon Health Authority
Presenters:
Heather Hargraves, Sara Pyle, Jeffrey Williams
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
Open Health Care Clinic
Presenters:
Jamie Roques, William Spatafora
2020 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
El Rio Health
Presenters:
Sharon Dipasupil
2020 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center
Presenters:
Christopher Bositis, Sandra Silva, Amy Bositis
2020 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment