Orange County PrEP Navigation Workshop Materials

Download Robert’s presentation

What do current Orange County HIV data tell us about HIV risk in our communities? Are we reaching vulnerable individuals with our HIV prevention strategies? How do data help us reach our goal to end the HIV epidemic?

Download Yohani’s presentation

A lot has happened over the past year in HIV prevention. Let’s hear the latest on PrEP and PEP medications and other prevention strategies:

• Current approved PrEP medications and their indications
• Event-based dosing (2-1-1)
• Starting and stopping PrEP
• U=U
• Long-acting injectables
• Don’t forget about PEP!
• HIPPA, privacy, and sexual health care for minors

Download Dr. Ried’s presentation

Let’s review some basic concepts of PrEP navigation:

• Defining navigator roles and concepts
• How are clients identified for PrEP education?
• Client-centered PrEP decision-making
• Adherence and retention counseling
• Same-day PrEP initiation

Video: Hear what a client says about PrEP

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This session will focus on the Trauma-Informed Care approach with those seeking and providing PrEP as a biomedical intervention for HIV.

Attendees will explore the impact of trauma on HIV risk and gain an understanding of the Trauma-Informed Care approach. Attendees will also have an opportunity to participate in discussion in which they will determine how they would apply the approach with clients seeking PrEP who have a history of trauma.

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Paying for PrEP
What’s the latest on PrEP and PEP assistance programs for medications and related services? When are California’s PrEP-AP and the Federal program Ready, Set, PrEP good options? How can you assist your clients with insurance and other benefits navigation?
Download Montica’s presentation

Pharmacy Challenges
You’ve done your best work in helping your client with PrEP navigation and access, and then they try to pick up their prescription and the pharmacy refuses to fill it. What are some practical solutions for common problems clients encounter?
Download Michelle’s presentation

Download session handout (OC HIV Specialty Pharmacies Providing HIV, PrEP & PEP CARE)

This session will explore how motivational interviewing (MI) can be used to overcome ambivalence with clients eligible for PrEP. Attendees will learn MI as a client-centered approach to help facilitate change talk. Attendees will also apply the spirit, skills, and processes of MI to guide PrEP clients in overcoming ambivalence and seeing desired change.

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Create retention strategies that improve ongoing client engagement, especially with our most vulnerable community members. What data are we collecting and how do we use it to evaluate our programs and improve the quality of our services?

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How we talk with our clients makes a big difference in their engagement with us. Let’s think about the language we use and how it can either build or break trust.

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This session will offer attendees an understanding of how to practice cultural humility with clients seeking PrEP. Attendees will learn how world views and implicit biases can impact the provider-client relationship. Attendees will also practice cultural humility as a way to check assumptions and provide client-centered PrEP services.

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Practice What We’ve Learned
Small group activity: Let’s look at some scenarios adapted from real practice.
Putting it All Together
Report back from small groups.