Essential Interviewing Skills for Disease Intervention (EISDI)
EISDI is a comprehensive training series delivered in complementary sessions of asynchronous and synchronous modules. It equips you with essential skills needed to effectively conduct interviews in disease intervention. Designed for public health staff working in disease intervention (DI), who want to enhance or refresh interview skills, whether new or experienced.
We strongly recommend taking the asynchronous course prior to the synchronous live training. Currently live courses are only available to California funded programs. Please contact us for more information and dates for upcoming live courses.
Our panel of providers will discuss the benefits and challenges of using rapid syphilis testing, including the rapid HIV/syphilis point-of-care test and the newly approved over-the-counter at-home syphilis test.
January 30, 2025 Event registration and details including agenda, final start and end times and number of CME units available will be announced on or before December 9th.
Please join us for a morning half-day STI Intensive offered in-person and virtually at no cost at the University of California, San Francisco at the ZSFG campus. There will also be an in-person (only) afternoon wet-mount at the UCSF Parnassus campus available to a limited number of the morning-training participants at no cost. This event will cover topics including STI epidemiology, syphilis, mycoplasma genitalium, HPV, and biomedical STI prevention. Speakers will include faculty from CAPTC (UCSF), the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and the California Department of Public Health.
½ Day Didactic: Morning – Early Afternoon
Hybrid event being offered in-person at UCSF Pride Hall & Virtually by Zoom
Onsite breakfast and refreshments provided
CME will be offered at no cost
Topics will cover STI trends (national and California); biomedical STI prevention; syphilis cases; updates in STI management, with a focus on syphilis, mycoplasma genitalium and HPV.
Registration closes on January 29, 2025 at 3:00p.m. (PST)
Recording available in approximately 2 weeks after the event. Please note: CME not available for viewing the recording.
Previous microscopy skills are required to take this course. Registration prioritized for STI Intensive didactic attendees. Space limited to 12 max capacity.
In-person only training being offered at UCSF Parnassus Heights
3-hour laboratory course
CME will be offered at no cost
Topics will cover CLIA regulation, quality control, and interpretation vaginal wet mount (VWM) for common causes of vaginitis. Microscope footage of findings on VWM including trichomonads, yeast and clue cells associated with BV. Experiential training, including laboratory practicum on examination of saline and KOH vaginal wet mounts (VWM). Participants will have an opportunity for group discussion, explanation, and demonstration, as well as practice and return demonstration.
Registration closes on January 29, 2025 at 3:00p.m. (PST) or once course is full.
Changes are coming to oral PrEP assistance programs in 2025. We’ll learn how PrEP navigators and providers are planning for these changes to ensure uninterrupted PrEP access for their clients and patients. This session is a collaboration between the California Prevention Training Center and the Pacific AIDS Education Training Center.
Special guest: Juan Carlos Loubriel, Senior Director of Community Health and Wellness at Whitman-Walker Health (Washington, DC). Juan Carlos will talk about Whitman-Walker’s innovative program for injectable PrEP initiation and administration by community health workers.
The goal was to improve knowledge of how structural interventions operate to address the environmental, social, and economic factors that influence individual risk and protective behaviors.
View recordings of the institute, below.
Day 1
Welcome & Introduction to Structural Interventions
Aunsha Hall-Everett provides a welcome to the institute and Patrick Piper provides a fundamental understanding of SI.
Community engagement is essential in developing and implementing structural interventions. Duran Ruteledge discusses the importance of gaining community buy-in for interventions, highlights the “wisdom of crowds”, and provides an opportunity to share experiences.
Matthew Willis explains how the California State Office of AIDS has funded and supported SIs throughout the state, particularly the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative. He focuses on how six counties of the California Consortium implement SI to address the three critical components of SI – acceptability, accessibility, and availability.
Promoting Cultural Humility through Structural Changes and Institutional Accountability
Creating change at an institutional level to promote cultural humility requires assessing barriers and structures that have created disparities in health outcomes. Tim Vincent highlights one health department’s approach integrating cultural humility by making structural changes in service delivery.
Delivering Trauma-Informed Care to Reduce Health Disparities in Vulnerable Populations
To examine trauma-informed care as a structural intervention, Shamere Mackenzie highlights the importance of supplying care and support services to vulnerable populations in a trauma-informed manner, promoting healthy outcomes and increasing client engagement in services.
Zami Hyemingway explores the negative impact of transphobia on clients who identify as transgender or non-binary persons when they access HIV services. Explore structural strategies and learn to bridge the medical divide for transgender people seeking and accessing services.
The Modernization of HIV Laws in Nevada; Changing Legislature
Andre Wade provides an overview of how Nevada addressed a structural barrier to HIV services by modernizing its HIV duty to warn laws. Learn how Nevada successfully created awareness and established community and political partnerships to work in collaboration to modernize its HIV laws.
The NYC Condom Availability Program: Structural Changes During a Pandemic
Jennifer Matsuki and Ilona Charkow highlight how the NYC Condom Availability Program (NYCAP) was able to meet the needs of the community with its condom distribution program during Covid-19. Learn the importance of organizations being able to pivot services delivery models to continue to meet the community’s needs and demands as Covid continues to interrupt services.
When policies and programs designed to improve health outcomes are not driven by community interests, efforts remain disconnected from the people they intend to serve. Aunsha Hall-Everett engages participants in a deeper discussion about the various examples of engagement strategies discussed by presenters and how they can be used to maximize structural impact.
These 2 -hour online trainings focus on basic knowledge about different kinds of opioids and stimulants. Tanagra M. Melgarejo, MSW, National Learning and Engagement Strategist at Harm Reduction Coalition reviews basic information about how and why they are used and discuss ways to reduce the harms of using these types of drugs.
The trainings provide an overview of how to engage program participants/clients in conversations around the way they are using these drugs and what potential harms can be reduced by exploring how to use harm reduction methods to engage with people who use drugs and better understand their experience.
Building on the momentum, in March 2022 CAPTC and Denver Prevention Training Center, along with important partners, hosted See All of Me: The Intersections of Medical Mis/Distrust and the Impact on Transgender Health, HIV Care & Prevention Summit.
View recordings and other resources from each event, below.
2022 Symposium on “See All of Me: The Intersections of Medical Mis/Distrust and the Impact on Transgender Health, HIV Care & Prevention Summit”
See All Of Me Medical Mistrust Summit – Day 1, Part 1
Dr. Tatyana Moaton presents: An Intersectional Look at Providing Transgender Health
See All Of Me Medical Mistrust Summit – Day 1, Part 2
Tyree Williams, Octavia Lewis, Levi Maxwell, Marcus Arana and Victor Motherwell participate in a panel conversation: In Sickness and Health: Exploring the Diversity of Gender in Patient-Centered HIV. Moderated by JaDawn Morgan-Wright
See All Of Me Medical Mistrust Summit – Day 1, Part 3
Dr. Sand Chang presents: Decolonizing Transgender Health
See All Of Me Medical Mistrust Summit – Day 2, Part 1
Valerie Spencer, Cecilia Gentili, Jenna Rapues participate in a panel conversation: Ecological Perspectives for Deconstructing Medical Mistrust in Transgender Health. Moderated by Shawn Demmons
See All of Me Medical Mistrust Summit – Day 2, Part 2
Andrew Miller presents: Building an Affirming Healthcare System. Concludes with a special message from Admiral Dr. Rachel Levine.
See All Of Me Medical Mistrust Summit – Highlights
2021 Symposium Sessions
Opening Plenary: Historical Context of Medical Mistrust
We provide technical assistance and training to family planning providers and promote comprehensive sexual health education and services for low-income Californians.
Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment Program (Family PACT)
CAPTC provides technical assistance and training to family planning providers in California. Our team has a key role in implementing California’s Family Planning Access Care and Treatment (Family PACT) Program. Family PACT is an innovative program that provides free, comprehensive family planning services to low-income individuals, including adolescents. Administered by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) Office of Family Planning (OFP), Family PACT has been operating since 1997.
CAPTC’s health educators and communicators provide a wide array of capacity building tools and technical assistance training to FPACT providers including orientations for providers new to the program, online courses, webinars, and a robust website with resources for both providers and clients.
August 30, 2023 Description: Exposure to abuse, neglect, discrimination, violence, and other adverse experiences can greatly impact a person’s health for the long term and the way they interact with…
May 10, 2023 Description: According to the National Survey of Family Growth, approximately 12% of “women of childbearing age” have a disability, and yet our educational and training programs devote…
Reproductive and Sexual Health Considerations for Transgender and Nonbinary People December 16, 2022 Description This webinar is presented by Gayge Maggio, FNP-BC, AAHIVS and will focus on the reproductive and…
October 19, 2022 Description Quality contraceptive care is more than just knowing the facts about all available birth control methods. In order for clients to select methods and get what…
August 17, 2022 Description: Since the first HPV vaccines were introduced in 2006, rates of cervical cancer and other HPV-related cancers have decreased in immunized populations. Family PACT will add…
Clinical Practice Alert: Syphilis Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Rates of syphilis have been rising in the US, including in California, which has resulted in a corresponding rise in the rates…
May 11, 2022 Over the last year, the Family PACT Program has added several new benefits. These include three new contraceptive methods, a diagnostic test for Mycoplasma genitalium, and modifications…
November 18, 2021 This webinar event is a collaboration between The California Department of Health Care Services Office of Family Planning, the California Prevention Training Center, the California Department of…
The long-awaited 2021 CDC Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines were published in MMWR on July 22, 2021. This webinar will focus on significant changes from the 2015 CDC STD Treatment Guidelines, including…
The CPT rules for the use of problem-oriented E/M office visit codes changed significantly on January 1, 2021. Since then, office visits are coded based on levels of medical decision-making…
Information on birth control methods and Family PACT coverage for current and prospective Family PACT clients.
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