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HIV Resistance: The Intersection between Treatment and Prevention

This webcast provides an overview of HIV drug resistance, its role in transmitting resistant HIV virus, and what clients and peers need to know about it. The webcast will also include an overview of the role of HIV biomedical interventions in reducing risk of HIV transmission.

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Finding Home: Tips and tools for guiding people living with HIV toward stable housing

This toolkit is designed to provide resources to organizations to increase access to stable and permanent housing for people who are homeless or unstably housed, living with HIV, and who may have persistent mental illness and/or substance use disorders. It is primarily intended for Ryan White provid [...]

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Strategies for Connecting Justice-Involved Populations to Health Coverage and Care

A guide from the Urban Institute for connecting justice involved people with Medicaid. Interventions include hiring justice-involved individuals as patient navigators to ensure that their peers have access to comprehensive and continuous care.

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Addressing Health Disparities from Within the Community: Community-Based Participatory Research and Community Health Worker Policy Initiatives Using a Gender-Based Approach

A study from Women’s Health Issues. Describes an intervention addressing obesity among women in Utah. The study employed peer health coaching as an individual-level intervention, while simultaneously soliciting information about organizational, local, and state level policies impacting the hea [...]

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Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Community Health Worker Support for Adults with Social Anxiety

A doctoral dissertation assessing the acceptability and feasibility of an internet-based cognitive-behavioral therapy intervention with support from a peer coach. Describes research findings and provides background on lay health workers in the context of mental health.

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Community Health Workers in Health-Related Missouri Agencies: Role, Professional Development and Health Information Needs

A peer-reviewed article examining the roles and training of community health workers in Missouri. Seeks to better understand how widely CHWs are employed in the state, as well as the common tasks they perform and health concerns they address.

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Spotlight: Power Job Club

Employment and economic self-sufficiency play a key role in health. With the effectiveness of early antiretroviral treatment (ART), many people with HIV can (and do) participate in the country’s workforce. When community-based organizations, HIV/AIDS service organizations, and health care centers [...]

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Protected: Learning Communities

Seven distinct learning communities are each charged with examining social work’s impact on a different aspect of health. These learning communities are trans-disciplinary, inter-professional teams that include students, faculty from Boston University and beyond, policymakers, and practitioners. C [...]

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TEFRA State Plan Option for Severely Disabled Children

The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) is a state plan option that creates a pathway to Medicaid for certain children under age 19 with complex disabilities or special health care needs to be cared for at home instead of an institution even if family income exceeds state Medicaid eligi [...]