The HIV, Housing & Employment Project

Demonstration Sites

HIV, Housing & Employment Project Intervention Tools from the 12 demonstration sites include intervention manuals, summaries, and other intervention resources.

Presentations and Posters

See also the individual demonstration site pages for demonstration site posters and presentations.

Webinars from the SPNS Initiative's end-of-project meeting and highlight preliminary findings and lessons learned.

TA Sessions on Coordination of Supportive Employment and Housing Services for People Living with HIV

Webinar tips on interventions that coordinate HIV care and treatment, housing, and employment services for people living with HIV. Sessions were held for demonstration sites under the HIV, Housing & Employment Project, covering:

• Employment 101
• Housing 101
• Stages of Change
• Client Coaching Towards Self Sufficiency
• Field Safety
• Balancing SSI/SSDI & Wages
• Recruiting High Acuity Clients
• Framing Criminal Histories
• Immigration and Documentation
• HIV Patients Impacted by the Justice System Need Housing and Employment Services
• Sustainability and Integration

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Spotlights

Integrating HIV Care, Housing, and Employment Support in a FQHC

Lessons learned in building a system between the Medical Case Management and housing programs to meet clients’ social and medical needs.

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Spotlight: Women's Connection Summits

Learn how AIDS Foundation Chicago connected justice-involved women of color with HIV to medical and social services by organizing Women’s Connection Summits.

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Spotlight: POWER Job Club

Learn how Liberty Community Services, Inc. successfully integrated employment into their existing services through an innovative intervention called POWER (Pursuing Opportunities with Employment & Resources).

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Spotlight: Helping Clients During COVID-19, Strategies from the Field

Learn strategies to help Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program clients during COVID-19, also known as coronavirus. These approaches are applicable today and many have broader application for hard-to-reach populations in need of social support services during times of uncertainty.

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Spotlight: Bike Exchange

This project spotlight profiles the City of Kansas City, Missouri Health Department (KCHD)'s novel intervention to provide clients living with HIV free bikes to travel to doctor's appointments, medical case management appointments, employment, and to do normal activities of daily living. This project was an outgrowth of the KC Life 360 intervention, part of the larger housing and employment intervention.

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Issue Briefs

Issue Brief: Integrating Navigators into Care Systems

This issue brief discusses the integration of navigators into care systems. It includes the definition of "Navigator," roles and responsibilities of navigators within and outside of clinics/agencies. Also included are the steps along the HIV care continuum that navigators help support, team protocols and navigator integration into care teams, and navigator supervision.

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Issue Brief: Tight Housing Markets

This issue brief covers the topic of housing vulnerable populations in tight housing markets, including effective strategies and associated resources.

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