Registration will close on February 24, 2025 at 3:00PM (PST). Recording available approximately 2 weeks after the webinar. Please note: No CME available for viewing the webinar recording.
Presenter Patty Cason, MS, FNP-BC President, Envision Sexual and Reproductive Health
Course Description A plethora of national guidelines recommend shared decision making as a person-centered way to engage with patients who are making decisions about their health. The goal is for patients to benefit from the provider’s contribution of scientific information while being acknowledged as the experts on themselves. This session will provide a specific, detailed approach to this and language suggestions to operationalize shared decision-making conversations.
Learning Objectives
Define shared decision making
Describe three contributions a provider makes during a shared decision-making conversation
List four ways to acknowledge a patient
Improving sexual health and HIV prevention services for Latinx/Hispanic communities
Session 1: Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 12:30-2:00pm PT
An Introduction to PrEP, PEP, and Doxy-PEP, and Navigation in Spanish This workshop will introduce everyday terms used in PrEP, PEP, and doxy-PEP counseling in Spanish, through a basic review of these topics in Spanish. NOTE: This session is in Spanish.
Introducción a PrEP, PEP, y doxy-PEP, y el asesoramiento en español sobre ellos Este taller introducirá términos cotidianos para asesorar a los pacientes de PrEP, PEP, y doxy-PEP en español, mediante un repaso básico de estos temas en el idioma.
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.
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.
Wet Mount: Mid Afternoon-Evening
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.
PrEP Financing Update
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.
Session Recordings
Drugs 101: Opioids
Drugs 101: Stimulants
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