Innovative Approaches to Increase Engagement in Mental Health Services among Youth with HIV

This presentation will describe two innovative mental health quality improvement initiatives for youth. The presentation will focus on the specifics of delivering brief mental health in-clinic interventions and the development and implementation of youth peer support groups within the pediatric HIV program in the ‘hot spot' of the national HIV epidemic, Washington, D.C.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe innovative mental health quality improvement initiatives.
2. Identity methods for improving accessibility of meaningful mental health services by conducting an interest and/or needs assessment with youth and their caregivers.
3. Identify strategies for implementing and scaling up a successful peer support groups for youth living with HIV.