Community Health Worker Supervisor Curriculum
Resource updated 01/31/2024
Resource updated 01/31/2024
Blog updated 01/12/2022
A culturally sensitive, participant-driven, Spanish-language group for Latina women with HIV promoted engagement in HIV services. Many participants had never previously engaged in support services. The increased participation resulted in multiple positive outcomes, including HIV viral load suppression, reduced stigma and isolation, engagement in mental health services, and increased community advocacy.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This workshop will share youth-tailored innovative approaches, such as integrated mental health and clinical nutrition services for peer support, facilitated transportation conducted by case managers via a rideshare program for youth clients, and a grading system to assess individual readiness and help guide transition to adult care.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
With integrative, patient-centered care, the organization’s interdisciplinary team approach to caring for patients with HIV has achieved a retention rate of 95% and the viral load suppression of patients with HIV to 95%.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Blog updated 09/06/2022
Blog updated 06/10/2021
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
New HIV infections continue to rise among members of the Latinx community, especially youth. To reverse this increasing trend, it is important to recognize the social, economic, linguistic, and cultural barriers that hinder the prevention and treatment efforts for HIV when developing an outreach strategy.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Three sites were funded in 2016 as part of Special Projects of National Significance Dissemination of Evidence-Informed Interventions initiative to implement an evidence-informed intervention designed to link people with HIV in jail to community HIV care using a transitional care coordinator. Presenters will discuss the barriers and facilitators related to linking to care and achieving and maintaining viral suppression post-release.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Managing the needs of people with HIV can be difficult and intensive. The importance of caring for oneself is often overlooked by program staff and can threaten their well-being. Staff who provide non-medical case management and assistance in finding employment and housing were interviewed to determine key areas of concern.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Maricopa County’s Part A Program used HRSA Policy 18-02, which defines allowable services for incarcerated individuals, to expand services in county jails. This session provides a clinical and administrative perspective on the processes, forms, and services that decreased time from jail-based diagnosis to treatment and viral load suppression.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Prism Health North Texas will share the challenges and successes of integrating non-medical case management workflow processes into an integrated electronic health record system. The presenter will discuss workflow processes, assessments that allow non-medical case managers to gather required information and determine outcomes and identify patients appropriate for program graduation.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
In December 2019 the Iowa ADAP launched its Jail Assistance Program to extend HIV medication access to county jails. The ADAP partnered with a local jail to create a program that could be replicated across all of Iowa’s 99 counties. This presentation will focus on program development, utilization, and lessons learned.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
The Los Angeles County Department of Health compared change in acuity level from initial assessment to reassessment among Los Angeles County Medical Care Coordination (MCC) clients. At reassessment, 2,361 clients (50%) had a significant reduction in acuity. MCC is an effective strategy to reduce medical and psychosocial acuity in addition to improving HIV care continuum outcomes.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Modernizing acuity scales in provision of services to clients allows for those with the greatest need to achieve improved health outcomes in a health equity approach.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023