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: Changing Lives Through Good Oral Health
This digital story demonstrates how access to oral health care improved the quality of life of three people living with HIV. Changing Lives Through Good HIV Oral Health from HDWG BUSPH on Vimeo.
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.
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 [...]
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. [...]
Community Health Worker Programs: A Review of Recent Literature
A paper published by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Presents a review of published literature on CHW programs, primarily focusing on maternal and newborn child health, for the purposes of identifying key components of successful CHW programs, reviewing past successes [...]
Leverage Opportunities + Speak the Medicaid Language: A Workbook for Title V
Leverage Opportunities + Speak the Medicaid Language: A Workbook for Title V focuses on Medicaid as an important element of the system of services for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN), as it is the single largest payor for CYSHCN and provides a robust benefits package for c [...]
State Definitions of Medical Necessity Under the Medicaid EPSDT Benefit
State Medicaid programs are required to provide Medicaid enrollees under age 21 with comprehensive and preventive health care services through the Early Screening and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit. Federal law requires states to cover “medically necessary services [...]
Graduate and Doctoral Fellows Program
CISWH’s graduate and doctoral fellows program prepares future social work and public health leaders for meaningful careers that directly impact the health and well-being of populations throughout the United States and the world. Our fellows contribute to CISWH by: creating policy briefs conducting [...]
Jessica Famularo
As CISWH’s marketing and communications manager, Jessica Famularo leads the design and implementation of the Center’s marketing and content strategy. Jessica has several years of non-profit communications experience with a focus on social justice and equity initiatives. As a former journ [...]
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