HIV Engagement and Retention in Care

Jane Fox, MPH

The Dental Case Management Model was presented by Jane Fox at the 21st Annual National Conference on Social Work and HIV/AIDS in New Orleans on May 21-24, 2009. The presentation illustrates the work of the sites under the Oral Health Special Projects of National Significance Initiative that have adopted a dental case management model to increase access to oral health care for persons living with HIV/AIDS.

PEER Center, PACT, People to People, Lotus, DUMC Partners in Caring

PEER Center

Toolkit

April 1, 2009

Purpose of this toolkit: to support the training of HIV-positive peers who work to engage and retain people living with HIV in health care.
Primary audiences: experienced trainers and training organizations who can use this toolkit to design, enhance or refine their own training of peers.
Additional uses: Peer supervisors or program directors can use this toolkit to plan a peer training program for newly hired peers or provide continuing education for existing peers.

PEER Center, PACT, Kansas City Free Health Clinic, Lotus, WORLD

On April 15, 2009 the PEER Center and the Peer Education Training Sites presented a Webcast about the roles of peers in providing HIV Care and Treatment in cooperation with HRSA. A recording of the Webcast is available on the Target Center website at http://careacttarget.org/habconferences.asp . (Click the “Recording” Button next to the April 15 listing “Role of Peers in HIV Care and Treatment.”)

Peers living with HIV/AIDS play an essential role in engaging HIV-positive individuals in care and treatment. This webcast is intended for anyone interested in learning about the roles of peers in providing HIV care and treatment. Peers working in clinics and community-based organizations will discuss their work and activities with clients and HIV providers. The webcast will include speakers from three peer programs:

• PACT Project, Harlem Hospital in New York City, NY
• People to People, Kansas City Free Health Clinic in Kansas City, MO
• Lotus Project, WORLD in Oakland, CA

Sally Neville, Kansas City Free Health Clinic

Sally Neville, Kansas City Free Health Clinic, made this presentation to the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Conference in Arizona in November 2008. It outlines the PEER Center project, the program models, the role of peers, preliminary results from peer trainings, and future program plans. The presentation focuses on resources which have been developed by this project that nurses may use as they develop, implement, manage or evaluate peer programs.

Marcia Dutcher and Brenda Loscher Hudson, Kansas City Free Health Clinic

Marcia Dutcher and Brenda Loscher Hudson presented preliminary evaluation findings from the PEER Center evaluation at the American Evaluation Association Conference in Denver, CO in November 2008. The presentation includes an outline of the program and discussion of metholodogies used to collect data.

Massachusetts Department of Public Health

This booklet is intended for people who are newly diagnosed with HIV. It provides information on finding an HIV doctor, help with creating and sticking to a treatment plan, building a support network, and more.

Community Health Center in CT, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York, and AIDS Care Group in PA

If you build it, will they come? If they come, will they stay? Outreach and Retention with SPNS Dental Patients: This presentation from the Ryan White All Grantees meeting in August 2008 shares the experiences of three Special Projects of National Sigificance (SPNS) who were attempting to engage and retain hard-to-reach HIV populations in dental care. This presentation includes strategies for getting and retaining patients in oral health care treatment and lessons learned. Presenters included staff from the Community Health Center in CT, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York, and AIDS Care Group in PA.

Kaleidoscope of Care

Kaleidoscope of Care summary of training modules

Various

A partial listing of local and multi-site presentations from the SSPNS Outreach Initiative.

Carol Tobias, MMHS, Serena Rajabiun, MPH, Sharon M. Coleman, MS, MPH, Howard Cabral, PhD

Abstract from the 2007 APHA annual meeing