CISWH’s Prof. López Joins BU Colleagues and Students to Support Migrant Communities at Texas Border
Photo by Barbara Zandoval on Unsplash Dr. Luz M López, director of CISWH’s Global Health Core and clinical professor at BUSSW, will join a Border Studies Program at the Texas border from March 4 – March 14, 2022. The program is focused on identifying practices to best support migrants at th [...]
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 [...]
PPT Slide Deck: Paths to Financial Sustainability for Comprehensive Pediatric Complex Care Programs: A Medicaid Policy Toolkit for Title V Programs
This slide deck, originally presented at the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs’ 2021 virtual conference, outlines a number of policy opportunities for Title V programs to utilize in sustaining funding for pediatric complex care. The presentation breaks down these policy opportuniti [...]
Building the capacity of HIV peer educators to be part of the health care team
The PEER Center team presented this seminar at the US conference on AIDS, Sept. 18 – 21, 2008 in Miami Beach, FL. In this 3-hour seminar, trainers, including a former peer advocate, demonstrated how to build peer skills on adherence to HIV treatment, peer counseling, and navigating the health [...]
Lessons Learned from the Peer Education and Training Sites/Resource and Evaluation Center (PETS/REC) Initiative 2005-2010
Here we share the lessons learned as PEER Center and Peer Education and Training Sites staff helped organizations integrate peer services to support clients living with HIV. The intent is to share ideas and approaches so program planners, policy makers, evaluators, consumer advisory boards, funders [...]
Strategies for Supervising HIV Peers
HIV-positive peers who work to retain PLWHA in care and treatment and who may have experienced life challenges similar to those of their clients have unique needs for supervision and support. Effective peer supervision calls for supervisors to develop a highly supportive supervisory style that borro [...]
Health Care Reform and the Massachusetts CommonHealth Program: An Important Foundation to Build on for Children with Disabilities
This Catalyst Center policy brief describes the impact of the CommonHealth program and its relevance to the Massachusetts health care reform experience.
Training peers to support clients in HIV care and treatment
As the role of peers in HIV care and treatment has become increasingly valuable, so has the need for comprehensive training materials. The PEER Center and the Peer Education Training Sites have developed a toolkit, Building Blocks to Peer Success, to assist trainers and program directors in planning [...]
Best Practices for Integrating Peer Navigators into HIV Models of Care
A report by AIDS United. Presents lessons learned from three AIDS United peer navigation program initiatives: Positive Charge (2010-2014), Retention in Care (2012-2016), and the Access to Care Social Innovation Fund Initiative (2010-2015). Offers ways to successfully and efficiently integrate peer n [...]
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 [...]
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