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Ryan White 2016 Conference Presentation: Understanding and Addressing Stigma to Promote Engagement in HIV Care

As part of the initiative Building a Medical Home for Multiply Diagnosed HIV Homeless Populations, staff conducted a substudy on stigma. The goals of the study are to 1) understand and describe how stigma is manifested in individual’s experience 2) develop approaches and coping skills for clients who experience stigma and 3) create a medical home to reduce stigma and enhance access and quality of care. The team presented preliminary results at the Ryan White 2016 conference.

Ryan White 2016 Conference Presentation: Everybody Loves a Good Story

Using digital media to capture & share patient stories–As part of the initiative Building a Medical Home for Multiply Diagnosed HIV Homeless Populations, staff from nine HIV provider sites created digital stories demonstrating their clients’ experiences working with the initiative. In this presentation, staff from CAHPP and two demonstration sites shared lessons learned when creating these stories.

Ryan White 2016 Conference Homeless Institute

The CAHPP staff, together with partner Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program and HIV provider demonstration sites nationwide, presented the work of the initiative Building a Medical Home for Multiply Diagnosed HIV Homeless Populations. The team presented an institute consisting of three 90-minute workshops at the 2016 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Conference.

Digital Story: Los Pares Cambian Las Vidas – Peers Change Lives

This video tells the story of one peer and one client who worked together to build a healing relationship to improve the client’s well-being and adherence to HIV treatment. In their own words, the peer and client relate how the client was restored to care and regained hope for the future. (In Spanish with English subtitles)

Expanding Access & Improving Retention in HIV Care: The SPECTRuM Project Implementation Manual

Although current medical treatments have improved health outcomes for people living with HIV infection, for some, engagement and retention in health care and adherence to antiretroviral treatment is a challenge. In 2011, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences, undertook the ‘Strategic Peer-Enhanced Care and Retention Model’ or SPECTRuM project. The project utilizes a multidisciplinary team approach including peers, nurses, and other clinical providers to enhance prompt linkage to care, intensively support retention in care, and improve adherence to prescribed treatments. This manual describes the service approaches and lessons learned from the initiative, and includes many of the assessment tools and direct care resources used throughout the project. Examples of successful interventions are provided in a variety of settings, from large, urban hospitals, to neighborhood-based community health centers. The interventions described are suitable for medical organizations, within and outside of Massachusetts. These approaches can be applied to work with diverse patient populations, including newly diagnosed individuals, hard-to-reach clients with multiple comorbidities, immigrant and refugee populations, individuals recently released from correctional facilities, persons with lower health literacy, and those with limited experience navigating the health care system.

Componentes Esenciales para la Capacitación y Éxito de los Trabajadores Pares (Peers)

English Curriculum.
Una herramienta para capacitar pares/peers con VIH para involucrar a las personas viviendo con VIH o SIDA a entrar o seguir con su cuidado médico

Propósito de esta Herramienta: Apoyar la capacitación de pares/peers viviendo con el VIH para involucrar y retener personas viviendo con el VIH en cuidado médico.

Audiencia: Capacitadores con experiencia y organizaciones de capacitación que pueden usar esta herramienta para crear, mejorar, o refinar su capacitación de pares/peers.

Otros Usos: Supervisores de pares o directores de programas pueden utilizar esta herramienta para planificar una capacitación de pares/peers recientemente contratados o para proveer educación continua a pares/peers que ya están trabajando.
English: Building Blocks to Peer Success

Esta herramienta está dividida en categorías generales para facilitar el acceso a una gran cantidad de información presentada. Los módulos individuales están organizados para poderlos facilitar individualmente e incluyen instrucciones detalladas como el tiempo, materiales, y preparación necesaria para cada modulo.

Un Caleidoscopio de Cuidado y Servicios: Respondiendo a los retos del VIH y uso de drogas

English version. Un currículo de adiestramiento interdisciplinario desarrollado para aumentar el conocimiento y la conciencia de la relación entre la infección del VIH y el uso de drogas. El currículo de
adiestramiento está diseñado para los proveedores médicos del VIH y de tratamiento de uso de
drogas, con la meta de que aumenten la capacidad de proveer cuidado a los usuarios de drogas
infectados con el VIH.

Digital Story: The Power of Peers to Change Lives

Kathleen Clanon, MD, Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, CA and Sally Neville, RN, MSN, Director of HIV Primary Care at Kansas City Free Health Clinic in Kansas City, MO talk about how peers help their patients adhere to treatment.

Digital Story: The Peer Program Makes a Big Difference

This digital story describes how one peer educator supports one client’s efforts to manage his HIV self-care. It does not represent all peers and clients, nor does it portray all the ways peers help clients cope with the daily stresses of living with HIV.