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Peer Re-Engagement Project: Enhanced Peer Intervention Manual, Teaming with Peers to Engage and Retain Hard-to-Reach Populations in Care

Versión en español
Peer Re-Engagement Project Enhanced Peer Intervention Manual, Teaming with Peers to Engage and Retain Hard-to-Reach Populations in Care: This manual describes the process created and refined to link and re-engage people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) of color in HIV primary care. It documents the intervention that was developed and implemented at three sites and provides a framework for future implementation of this model of an enhanced peer intervention. The appendices include sample work plan, job descriptions and other tools used in the intervention.

For an additional resource outlining considerations for starting or strengthening a peer program to engage and retain people living with HIV in care and treatment, see the PEER Center Project’s Building Blocks to Peer Program Success: A Toolkit for Developing HIV Peer Programs

Proyecto de Reintegración de Pares, Manuel de Intervención de Pares Mejorada Creando un Equipo con los Pares para Integrar y Retener a las Poblaciones Difíciles de Alcanzar en el Cuidado

English version
Proyecto de Reintegración de Pares, Manuel de Intervención de Pares Mejorada Creando un Equipo con los Pares para Integrar y Retener a las Poblaciones Difíciles de Alcanzar en el Cuidado: Este manual describe el proceso creado y refinado para enlazar y reintegrar a las personas de raza negra que viven con VIH/SIDA (PLWHA, por sus siglas en inglés) en el cuidado primario del VIH. El documenta la intervención de pares mejorada que fue desarrollada e implementada en tres centros y provee un marco de trabajo para implementación futura de este modelo de una intervención de pares mejorada.

Peer Re-Engagement Project: PREParing Peers for Success Peer Core Competency Training Curriculum for engaging out-of-care or newly diagnosed people living with HIV in care and treatment

Currículo en español
This five-day curriculum provides training materials and instructions train HIV-positive peers to support patients with care and treatment in your community. It was developed as part of the Peer Re-Engagement Project (PREP) evaluating a program that brings HIV-positive peers into the HIV care team to support patients who have fallen out of care or who are newly diagnosed with HIV and at risk of falling out of care.

For an additional toolkit which experienced trainers can use to develop a training program, the following toolkit from the PEER Center project provides a range of modules: Building Blocks to Peer Success: A toolkit for training HIV-positive peers to engage PLWHA

Peer Re-Engagement Project (PREP): PrePARando Pares para el Éxito: Capacitación para Competencias Básicas de los Pares, Un currículo para integrar a las personas con VIH al tratamiento

Curriculum in English
Un currículo de capacitación de pares de cinco días para integrar a las personas con VIH que no reciben tratamiento, o que han sido diagnosticadas recientemente con VIH, al tratamiento. El propósito de este currículo es apoyar la capacitación de pares VIH positivos que trabajan para reintegrar y retener a las personas que viven con VIH/SIDA (PLWHA, por sus siglas en inglés) y que no reciben cuidado médico para el VIH, enlazar a las PLWHA recién diagnosticadas con el cuidado médico del VIH y mejorar la calidad general del cuidado relacionado con la salud de estas personas.

Peer Re-Engagement Project: PREParing Peers for Success Peer Supervision Curriculum for engaging out-of-care or newly diagnosed people living with HIV in care and treatment

Currículo en español
The purpose of this one-day curriculum is to train the staff who will be supervising HIV-positive peers as they support patients in HIV treatment adherence and retention in care. This curriculum was developed as part of the Peer Re-Engagement Project (PREP) evaluating a program that brings HIV-positive peers into the HIV care team to support patients who have fallen out of care or who are newly diagnosed with HIV and at risk of falling out of care.

Building Blocks to Peer Program Success: A Toolkit for Developing HIV Peer Programs

Purpose of this toolkit: to support organizations and communities who work with peers to effectively engage and retain PLWHA in care and treatment.

Primary audiences: directors/managers, supervisors of social services, clinic managers and medical directors, nurses and case managers, state and county health officials in charge of HIV program dollars, planning councils, consumer advisory committees and anyone interested in building, enhancing or incorporating peers into a program

Additional uses: Organizations can review and select relevant sections based on their program’s needs and use the tools and resources available

Building Blocks to Peer Success: A toolkit for training HIV-positive peers to engage PLWHA in care

Curriculo en español
Purpose of this toolkit: to support the training of HIV-positive peers who work to engage and retain people living with HIV in health care.

Primary audiences: experienced trainers and training organizations who can use this toolkit to design, enhance or refine their own training of peers.

Additional uses: Peer supervisors or program directors can use this toolkit to plan a peer training program for newly hired peers or provide continuing education for existing peers.

For an additional 5-day peer training curriculum from the MAI SPNS project, which builds on this toolkit:
Preparing Peers for Success: Peer Core Competency Training for Engaging Out-of-Care or Newly Diagnosed People Living with HIV in Care and Treatment

A Kaleidoscope of Care for HIV-infected Substance Users

This paper presents early evaluation results of A Kaleidoscope of Care, a cross-disciplinary curriculum in HIV and substance use, designed to train HIV health care and substance abuse treatment professionals in providing better care to the clients they share in common. The curriculum applies adult learning principles to engage diverse professionals in building skills to promote health and adherence, engagement and retention in care, harm reduction, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Early evaluation of the curriculum indicates that it has enhanced knowledge and built skills in serving HIV-infected substance users among providers from multiple disciplines