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Curriculum updated on 06/01/2021
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Health Department Structural Changes to Advance Integration of HIV Prevention and Care Services
Structural changes that health departments can make to facilitate integrated approaches to HIV care and prevention. Part of the Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Planning Online Resource Guide.
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Creating a Culture of Trauma-Informed Care
Lehigh Valley Health Network Comprehensive Health Services implemented a trauma-informed approach to care delivery, including training staff on how trauma can affect people’s health and how microaggressions in healthcare environments can potentially trigger trauma responses. This approach positively impacted care delivery and the program’s retention in care rate.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 11/01/2023
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Co-Locating Care Management Staff and Peers in Medical Clinics
This medical-community partnership worked to link clients to care and decrease missed appointments and used peer navigators to successfully re-engage clients in care.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/17/2024
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Providing HIV Services to People Who Are Incarcerated
The Maricopa Jail Project was implemented by five jails to decrease the wait time between incarceration and/or diagnosis to the start of treatment, and to better support clients to reach viral suppression. Maricopa hired a nurse practitioner to manage access and case manage across the jail system. The initiative was successful in increasing the number of clients who were virally suppressed.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 12/12/2023
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Public Health and Primary Care Partnerships
Review of the role federally qualified health centers play in the care of people who are uninsured and medically underserved, including people with HIV.Resource updated 03/15/2023
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Elevating Consumer Voices
Building consumer leadership skills and strategies to help ensure and amplify consumer input into PC/PB activities.Resource updated 01/05/2024
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Making Room at the Table: Recruiting, Retaining, and Engaging Youth and Young Adults
Improving reflectiveness and representation by working to build up youth and young adult involvement in PC/PBs.Resource updated 01/05/2024
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AIDS at 40: Envisioning a Future We Never Imagined
June 5, 1981. Many people who work in the HIV field know its significance: the day when the first AIDS cases were officially reported.Blog updated 06/10/2021
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Transgender Health Program Integrated Into HIV Prevention and Care
The Rutgers New Jersey Medical School created a transgender health program and integrated it into their Infectious Disease Practice. The program conducted community outreach to engage transgender men and women in care, trained all staff on gender affirming care, hired transgender staff, provided gender affirming care and hormone treatments onsite, and offered mental health support to patients.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/07/2024
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AFH/Avenue 360 Project CORE: Coordination of Resources and Employment Services
Avenue 360 Health & Wellness offers a medical home for patients and AIDS Foundation Houston coordinates employment training and resources. These agencies believe that coordination is the key to breaking down barriers to health care in their community.Resource updated 09/14/2023
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Rapid Access Initial HIV Appointment and ART Prescription
The Virginia Commonwealth University implemented a clinical quality improvement project to increase linkage to HIV medical care within 30 days and initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the first visit by making “Rapid Access” appointments available each week for people with newly diagnosed HIV.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/07/2024
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Dimensions of HIV Prevention and Treatment for Black Women: HRSA Technical Expert Panel Report
Improvement in clinician listening skills, care coordination, and use of peers in care delive
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Peer Engagement to Improve Linkage to Care and Retention in Care for Women and Youth
University Health uses peers and patient navigators to provide support, reduce barriers, and improve linkage and retention to care for women and youth with HIV. Two peers with lived experience were hired as Outreach Specialists to spearhead the program, encourage medication adherence and use of services, and provide mentoring. The intervention was successful in moderately improving the numbers of clients linked to care, retained in care, and virally suppressed.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 11/14/2023
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Family Health Centers of San Diego: Coordinated Services Integration Intervention
Coordination of health care with housing and employment services through regular meetings, formal agreements, and a Linkage Coordinator.Resource updated 09/14/2023
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Fenway Health: Housing & Employment Project
Partnership between employment services and Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program providers to foster case coordination among medical care and social service providers, including a screening and referral system for housing and employment needs and services individualized for specific patient needs.Resource updated 09/14/2023
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Office Hours: A New TA Platform for Data Support
From the DISQ Listserv - Dear RWHAP community
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CAREWare and the RSR
Review of CAREWare and RSR reporting (criteria for including a client in the RSR, CAREWare features that allow review of RSR data quality, sharing feature for network versions of CAREWare).Resource updated 01/06/2022
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Responsibilities and Expectations of Individual Members - How the PC/PB can Support Them
This resource for new planning council members helps orient them to their roles and duties as HIV community planners.Resource updated 04/18/2024
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Transgender Women Engagement and Entry to Care (T.W.E.E.T): E2i
T.W.E.E.T. aims to engage transgender women in HIV care by combining weekly peer-based education and discussion groups, leadership training, community building, and the provision of supportive services. Three sites implemented T.W.E.E.T. as part of E2i, an initiative funded by the RWHAP Part F SPNS program from 2017–2021. Clients had improved outcomes across the HIV care continuum 12 months after enrollment in T.W.E.E.T.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 02/09/2024