Project STYLE (Strength Through Youth Livin’ Empowered)
Resource updated 10/18/2023
Resource updated 10/18/2023
Toolkit for implementing a program to support HIV-positive youth transitioning from adolescent to adult HIV care.
Resource updated 09/19/2023
Successes and lessons learned will be shared from three metropolitan areas on incorporating STI testing and treatment for prevention clients within an HIV medical home setting, along with how offering STI treatment impacts early identification service outcomes (e.g., HIV positivity rates, linkage to care referrals, and the rapid start of HIV treatment).
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Data systems are often black holes, where agencies enter data but are not able to efficiently access useful and actionable data back to take actions to improve services. Learn how the Connecticut Department of Health is using disruptive innovation and participatory design to provide useful tools and data to the front lines.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Learn about strategies for improving access to oral healthcare through better integration of electronic health and dental records and regular communication across dental and medical settings. Hear from recipients who participated in technical assistance site visits to improve oral health and primary care integration discuss experiences and lessons learned from their own integration efforts.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This interactive workshop will review updated data and discuss implementation challenges, facilitators, and best practices for routine screening/linkage in an emergency department with urban and rural challenges. Preliminary data from the initial two months (with more than 2,000 patients screened) include .7% HIV (including three acute infections), 7% Hepatitis C (HCV) and 5.2% syphilis.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
People with HIV 50 years and older is a rapidly increasing population with unique needs. The presentation summarizes a population-based approach to assess those needs and to respond with training and other resources. Presenters will describe the implementation of the approach by the New York City EMA in partnership with the Northeast/Caribbean AETC.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
New York City EMA staff will present their work with older people with HIV, including planning efforts, focus group results, and first steps toward building best practices and developing a model of care for older people with HIV in urban settings.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This session will share how three health departments created and cultivated a partnership that resulted in changes to Part A services administration and provision in the Washington, D.C., EMA.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This workshop will present the 6Ms, a simplified approach to geriatric principles for HIV care: Mobility, Mentation, Medications, Matters Most, Multicomplexity, and Modifiable. The role of the 6Ms in clinical care and identification of older adults at greatest need will be considered; clinical models of geriatric care with potential for widespread implementation will be presented.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This session will cover how to advocate and collaborate with your local Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) continuum of care to ensure people with HIV have access to housing services. Specific to Coordinated Entry, presenters will share challenges encountered, solutions to overcome, client success stories, outcomes, lessons learned, and recommendations.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Data integration projects are more successful when community voice is involved, and projects benefit from multidisciplinary team buy-in. Hear from the city of Hartford, Connecticut, and the city of Kansas City, Missouri, each of whom launched cross-sectoral workgroups to shepherd various types of data integration planning, implementation, and sustainability.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Presenters will describe a medical community collaboration to resolve care gaps and improve patient health outcomes through the co-location of health home care management by a community-based organization (CBO) within medical clinics. Panel members will share successes and challenges of implementation of the project and integrating a CBO care team into a medical clinic.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This discussion session will provide an overview of identified gaps and use of rebate funds can provide new access points for HIV medical care added through non-federal Ryan White Part B rebates to ensure access to Ryan White Part B services in areas with identified gaps in services.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This session is an overview of a Part F dental program's two-year journey to increase access to oral healthcare for people with HIV. The number of clients served, which was stagnant for several years, increased by 126% over the two-year initiative through increased collaboration and integration, dental case management, and innovative ways to increase capacity.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Massachusetts' statewide HIV Dental Services program is a unique collaboration across Ryan White Parts A and B to ensure all eligible residents with HIV in need of oral health services receive them. Data show that access to the program is associated with improved care continuum outcomes.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Transgender women and men are at markedly elevated risk for HIV. This session reviews a successful four-pronged approach to building the capacity of a large multi-site RWHAP-funded community health center network, in collaboration with a community-based organization, to improve delivery of HIV primary care to transgender women and men.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This workshop will help participants assess and improve their collaborative process with Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan development and implementation. Presenters will describe challenges and facilitators with cross-Part collaboration on integrated planning, including the development, implementation, monitoring and improvement of integrated plans, and alignment with other planning efforts.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Learn how small transformations in federal qualified health center (FQHC) practices can increase the rate of STI screening and treatment and eliminate barriers to care. Creating proficiency in scheduling patients by using urgent care appointments and implementing self-collection to empower patients and increase process efficiency can help patients receive needed services.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023