The Basics of Medicare for Ryan White Program Clients
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Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program uses an innovative care model, designed from the margins, to meet the complex needs of people living at the intersections of HIV, homelessness, substance use disorder, and incarceration. Such models hold promise for closing HIV care and prevention equity gaps for this hyper-vulnerable group.
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The panel will discuss experiences working with Ryan White and housing data, including the development of expanded housing definitions and findings from research. The workshop will engage participants to discuss what housing information is currently collected in their system and review what additional information it would be helpful to capture.
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Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program will share its innovative approach toward the micro-elimination of Hepatitis C (HCV) for homeless-experienced people with HIV. Team members will share data around cure rates, reinfection, and engaging with marginalized patients, and discuss leveraging existing Ryan White infrastructure and resources for such efforts.
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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.
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This session will highlight strategies to coordinate federal, state, and local funding streams to improve viral suppression for clients experiencing unstable housing. This is a panel session, and attendees will have the opportunity to share ideas, best practices, and roadblocks, and ask questions.
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Sound monitoring practices require collaboration across an organization to implement strong financial and program management systems. The Texas Ryan White Part B program and fiscal monitoring units have developed robust processes and tools to share with other Ryan White recipients.
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This session will discuss why youth experience unstable housing differently than adults, as well as innovative strategies for stabilizing youth in HIV care and housing. It will conclude with an interactive participant Q&A period.
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HRSA/HAB guidance on using RWHAP funds to provide services to eligible individuals in prisons, jails, and other correctional systems allows recipients to determine which RWHAP services to provide and for how long. This session will provide overviews of HAB policy and two recipients' programs serving people who are justice-involved.
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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.
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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.
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This presentation features an interactive assessment activity with Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant, and Timely (SMART) goal action planning to equip attendees in identifying opportunities to improve linkage and retention in care practices. Concrete strategies from the field and evaluation tips will be shared alongside critical information on operationalizing integrated care models to best serve individuals experiencing homelessness.
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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.
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The key to ending the epidemic in the United States is the employment of techniques that pinpoint where HIV infections are spreading rapidly and mobilizing resources for HIV services. This workshop is the final session in an institute that will help recipients understand and implement strategies to investigate and respond to HIV clusters.
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This workshop will present a summary of a one-day consultation on housing services for RWHAP clients that was convened in November 2019 and will include a listening session.
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The Ursuline Sisters HIV/AIDS Ministry in Youngstown, Ohio, began an emergency shelter and started providing housing services for people with HIV who were homeless. This session will discuss the lessons learned, best practices, and gains made toward helping the most marginalized clients achieve viral load suppression.
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The Philadelphia Department of Public Health Ambulatory Health Services HIV Program will share in detail its experience preparing for a HRSA site visit. Special emphasis will be placed on the preparation schedule, key resources identified for success, and best practices for providing the site visit team with required materials.
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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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