Course Description

Anti-Retroviral Treatment and Access to Medication (ARTAS) is an individual-level, multi-session, time-limited intervention with the goal of linking recently diagnosed persons with HIV to medical care soon after receiving their respective test result. ARTAS is based on the Strengths-based Case Management (SBCM) model, which is rooted in Social Cognitive Theory, (particularly self-efficacy) and Humanistic Psychology. SBCM is a model that encourages the client to identify and use personal strengths; create goals; and establish an effective, working relationship with the Linkage Coordinator (LC).

Course Objectives

• Summarize the ARTAS strategy
• Summarize the key components of the client session
• Demonstrate skills necessary to complete the client session
• Conduct a strengths assessment
• Prepare a client for transition, regardless if linked to care or not
• Debrief after a medical appointment

Target Audience

This training is intended for individuals who will be responsible for conducting the ARTAS sessions with clients, (i.e., Linkage Coordinator). Linkage Coordinators should have experience providing case management or social services. Ideally, participants should include experienced case managers, social workers, and/or HIV test counselors.

Course Description

Motivational interviewing is an incredibly versatile skill set which can be used to assist clients throughout their challenges with behavioral change. This synchronous virtual course on Motivational Interviewing (MI) will introduce learners to the foundational content and skills of MI. During this multisession course we’ll describe Motivational Interviewing, explore its effectiveness, and review all the elements and skills necessary to utilize MI. This course will be divided into four 90-minute sessions, presented over two days, that will provide learners with the opportunity to practice the fundamental skills necessary for applying MI in their client interactions.

This ZOOM based - live course will utilize a variety of adult learning methodologies including lectures, group discussions, video forum and role plays.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course participants will be able to:

• Discuss how MI helps support your clients
• Describe at least two ways that MI’s effectiveness has been applied in HIV Prevention and care
• List the four elements of MI
• Demonstrate the ability to apply the four elements of MI

Training Audience

The Fundamentals of Motivational Interviewing for HIV course is designed to provide foundational information and tools for providers new to MI who wish to develop their understanding of Motivational Interviewing to improve their client provider relationships.

The recommended training audience includes staff from:

• Community-based organizations
• Health departments
• Health care organizations implementing HIV programs and services

Course Description

The HIV Navigation Services (HNS) course is designed to improve navigation skills for those delivering prevention services to people living with HIV and high-risk HIV-negative individuals. This comprehensive course package is for service providers who want to know more about navigation skills, how navigation fits in the overall field of HIV prevention, structural components of a navigation program, and professional conduct.

Course Objectives

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Explain how navigation services support at-risk populations (persons living with HIV and high-risk negative people) obtain better health outcomes
• Name the component of the HIV navigation services protocol
• Describe how navigators work as part of a professional team to support a client through the HIV Care continuum
• Identify the required core competencies and knowledge of HNS
• Apply the skills and knowledge of HNS
• List key areas of need for professional development of navigators
• Identify next steps to enhance organizational capacity
• Describe how quality assurance components support clients, navigators and agencies

Target Audience

The recommended training audience includes staff from:

• Community-based organizations
• Health Departments
• Health care organizations implementing HIV programs and services
• General navigation programs that seek to incorporate HIV navigation services as an additional component to their existing navigation services

Course Description

HIV Testing in Nonclinical Settings is CDC’s latest HIV testing training for nonclinical settings. This training reflects scientific advances and evidence informed updates as expressed in CDC’s guidance: Implementing HIV Testing in Nonclinical Settings: A Guide For HIV Testing Providers (2016). Key influences on this curriculum have been shifts in HIV prevention, care, and treatment that have occurred since the Fundamentals of HIV Prevention Counseling training, and the policies that followed. This training has a streamlined Six-Step Protocol with greater emphasis on serostatus specific referrals and active linkage. A person’s current circumstances are explored, with less extensive pre- and post-test counseling.

Course Objectives

• Utilize communication techniques to successfully build rapport with clients
• Understand the window period and communicate retesting messages
• Deliver the HIV rapid testing Six-Step Protocol to individuals in nonclinical settings
• Improve the ability to link clients who are living with, or at high risk for HIV, into care and prevention services

Target Audience

This training is intended for who plan to provide HIV testing in nonclinical settings or program managers who will be overseeing HIV test providers. Participants should have a basic understanding of HIV transmission and individual HIV testing.

Course Description

Social Network Strategy (SNS) for HIV Testing Recruitment is an evidence supported approach to engaging and motivating a person to accept a service. SNS is particularly useful to recruit persons at risk for HIV into testing.

Course Objectives

• Describe the Social Network Strategy
• Describe the four phrases of the Social Network Strategy
• Draw a Social Network diagram
• Demonstrate the use of program data for program monitoring
• Describe the steps to develop a plan for integrating Social Network Strategy into an existing program

Target Audience

This 2-day training is designed for participants considering using Social Network Strategy for HIV Testing Recruitment at their agency or organization.

Course Description

This TOF program helps participants learn the necessary skills in order to be successful in facilitating the Sister to Sister: TCYH intervention. It is divided into two components: a self-paced eLearning module and a two-session live virtual training. During the two-session live virtual training, participants review key information discussed in the eLearning module, delve deeper into the nine activities that make up the intervention, and practice facilitating the intervention.

For the practice, participants are grouped into trios in order to experience the intervention as the patient, the provider, and an observer. Practicing the intervention builds their confidence in how to deliver the intervention. Experiencing the intervention as the patient gives them a sense of how the intervention might be received. Observing the intervention is essential; it allows participants to gain a better understanding of the tone, body language, and reactions of the provider and patient.
Throughout the practice, trainers ensure that participants are receiving feedback and affirmations to build their own self-efficacy to deliver the intervention to women who are eligible to participate in their clinics.

Course Objectives

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify at least 5 of the core elements of Sister to Sister: TCYH
• List at least 3 of the key characteristics of Sister to Sister: TCYH
• List the 9 activities of Sister to Sister: TCYH and describe how the activities help providers build patients' self-efficacy
• Practice delivering the Sister to Sister: TCYH intervention

Target Audience

Women who will implement Sister to Sister: TCYH. Ideally, training participants would be working as providers, social workers, peer navigators, or linkage coordinators in settings such as family planning clinics and other reproductive health care clinics.