Incorporating Psychiatric Care in a Patient-Centered Medical Home for People Living With HIV
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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.
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This 101 session will provide a broad overview of unstable housing, homelessness, and their impact on health outcomes. Participants will gain a basic understanding of why and how RWHAP recipients should consider integrating housing resources into their systems of care.
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This presentation discusses results from the HRSA Special Projects of National Significance Evidence-Informed Approaches to Improving Health Outcomes for people with HIV project. It highlights the value of evidence scoring in conjunction with impact assessments of real-world experts and implementers to increase potential adoption and implementation success of evidence-based and evidence-informed interventions.
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In this workshop, participants will gain knowledge, skills, and resources to use for engaging, retaining, and supporting viral suppression among vulnerable HIV populations. We will demonstrate training topics to improve staff skills and provide examples of activities, policies, and client interaction sessions to enhance service delivery systems.
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This interactive panel describes and discusses the development of comprehensive-care models that provide high-quality, coordinated team-based care with sustained improvements in health outcomes. Participants will leave with Ryan White-compliant strategies for 340B and other resources to develop innovative and integrated solutions that improve patient outcomes and engaged teams.
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Substance abuse, interpersonal violence, depression, and HIV are part of overlapping and intersecting epidemics which adversely affect the prognosis and intensify the burden of each. This session will review existing literature on this syndemic, lessons learned in initial implementation of a screening and linkage program, and implications for practice.
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This session will discuss the implementation, outcomes, and future directions associated with the Health Services Center, Inc. Behavioral Health Co-location (BHC) Project. HSC is the sole provider of free HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) services to a population facing multiple barriers to care (e.g., poverty, education and stigma) in a largely rural 14-county area of northeast Alabama.
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Presenters will review strategies for community health worker (CHW) workforce development. They will also discuss the creation of certification systems, development of training opportunities, preservation of a community based CHW workforce, and financing mechanisms to support CHW positions. In addition, presenters will discuss the importance of CHW engagement and involvement in state policymaking and planning.
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Community Health Workers (CHWs) are an important member of the healthcare delivery team linking organizations to the broader community and patients to care. Successful CHW integration is dependent on multiple factors. This interactive institute will detail strategies for integrating CHW models in HIV care based on a 10-site evaluation.
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Presenters will describe the development of the online HRSA/HAB Compilation of Best Practice Strategies and Interventions intended to share knowledge among RWHAP service providers. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions about the development of the compilation and submission criteria and provide feedback on the proposed categories, layout, and functionality.
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This session will focus on rural workforce challenges and corresponding data, highlight recipient innovative approaches to ameliorate the challenges, and review a vast array of free resources and training offered by HRSA Federal Office of Rural Health Policy and HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce.
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Learn how work earnings interact with benefits people with HIV utilize for health coverage, housing, and income. Scenarios will be explored for working while on benefits, with a focus on the role legal and benefits advisement services play in equipping people with HIV for well-informed employment decisions and transitions.
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The World Health Organization pyramid of mental health services clarifies how HIV prevention and care programs can address behavioral health comorbidities without exclusively relying on specialty mental health providers. A lively discussion that includes people with lived experience and video examples will be employed to demonstrate how this pyramid works.
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In this workshop, Liberty Community Services will describe how they integrated employment into their existing services through an innovative jobs club, Pursuing Opportunities with Employment & Resources (POWER). Attendees will leave with the tools to create or expand a jobs club program at their agency.
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Alliance for Positive Change, a New York City community-based organization, will present its pioneering peer training and workforce development initiatives that create opportunities for low-income New Yorkers with shared, lived experiences to re-enter the workforce. Additionally, presenters will provide an overview of the proven health and psychosocial benefits of returning to work for people with HIV.
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Funded by the HRSA Special Projects of National Significance initiative, Project CORE is a coordinated housing, employment services, and HIV care intervention that aims to increase employment and income outcomes of persons with HIV who are currently receiving services through HOPWA and/or RWHAP. The purpose of this presentation is to describe Project CORE, its strategies, and preliminary findings.
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