HIV Care Coordination Specialists - an Approach to Retain Self-Sufficient Clients at Risk of Disengaging in Care
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In this workshop, participants will gain resources and strategies for implementing community engagement programs, including training community health workers to be part of a health care team to enhance viral suppression and management of HIV in rural populations.
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Community Health Worker (CHW) models are a strategy to reduce inequities in HIV. This presentation will describe an evaluation of 397 CHW program participants, with findings on the impact on barriers to care and clinical outcomes, as well as the relationship among unmet needs, CHW encounters, and clinical outcomes.
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Project Consumer Access and Adherence to Care for HIV (CAATCH) is a Part D clinical quality initiative. Utilizing peers as partners, a series of health education sessions are delivered to make improvements on the HIV care continuum in engagement and viral suppression.
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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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Models for services responding to employment needs of people with HIV will be presented, including intensive individualized services and community education for optimizing external resources available at the community level. Presentations will build knowledge of and capacity for maximizing benefits of widely available employment services and resources.
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The Housing Independence Through Employment (HITE) program assists highly motivated individuals with achieving their highest level of economic and housing independence. For a period of 24 months, participants receive assistance with 100% of their monthly rent and pay 30% of their income to an escrow account while receiving robust support services.
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This session will explore using a holistic process and HIT solutions-based approach for increasing access to housing and employment services for clients leaving incarceration.
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This workshop will describe three site models, including protocols, resources, and tools for engaging and retaining people in care, achieving viral suppression, attaining stable housing, and gaining employment. Presenters will also share systems developed and implemented for internal and external partnerships with housing, employment, and other service providers.
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Sites will share strategies and lessons learned to build a system of care and obtain housing and employment for people with HIV who are homeless or unstably housed, unemployed or underemployed, and out of care.
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The Integrated HIV/AIDS Planning Technical Assistance Center (IHAP TAC) will describe data utilization for priority setting and resource allocation (PSRA) and the importance of partnerships for PSRA decision-making. The session will cover key definitions, requirements, emerging models, tips, and resources. RWHAP Part A and B recipients will present strategies for optimizing the PSRA process.
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The initiation of individualized support groups for people with HIV has shown significant improvements in viral load suppression rates for participants. Baseline viral suppression rates measured at group enrollment were 35.5% (n=31). Viral suppression rates for the end of the year showed 100% of participants being suppressed (n=31).
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Preventing HIV with pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a pillar of the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative. This session will explore PrEP implementation resources for health centers developed by the National LGBT Health Education Center at The Fenway Institute and prepare participants to use and adapt them to their organizations.
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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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Undetectable=Untransmittable: individuals who maintain viral suppression don't transmit HIV to their sexual partners. Yet some providers are uncomfortable discussing the implications of viral suppression in clinical encounters. This workshop will explore approaches to reduce provider discomfort in discussing U=U and present strategies to convey this message.
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This presentation focuses on peer-based training for engaging consumer voices in HIV providers' quality improvement efforts. Community-based, peer-led efforts impact HIV care program effectiveness. Peer-led training concentrating on client advocacy and involvement in quality improvement is another method for promoting intentional collaboration between HIV service programs and people with HIV.
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This workshop will explore the implementation of peer-led, evidence-informed interventions for transgender women with HIV. The programs are Healthy Divas, and Transgender Women Engagement and Entry to Care Project (T.W.E.E.T.). Attendees will learn the core elements of these interventions and how they improve engagement in care, treatment adherence, and viral suppression in Alabama and Michigan.
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This presentation assesses social determinants that affect the HIV continuum of care. Establish patterns at the economic, demographic, and sociocultural factors that may fragment or, in a worst-case scenario, interrupt access to HIV testing, biomedical prevention, follow-up to a positive diagnosis, and adherence to treatment.
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