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If you have an idea for a session or for another topic you would like to see available, please contact Project REACH at
(401) 521-5759 x17.
2010 COURSE LISTING
Integrated HIV and Viral Hepatitis Counseling,
Testing, and Referral Services (CTR)
Alfred Forbes
Two Offerings: March 29, 30, and 31 as well as May 5, 6, and 7.
9:00 am- 4:00pm
$40 Deposit Required
This three-day course is limited to staff performing HIV testing in their agencies.
The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH-RI) has made strides to integrate viral hepatitis and partner counseling and notification into funded HIV testing
programs. Since risk behaviors that place clients at risk for HIV are also risks for viral hepatitis, integrated testing services for HIV and viral hepatitis is seen as an
effective and efficient prevention strategy. HEALTH-RI is aware that clients may be presenting for either HIV testing and/or viral hepatitis testing. Therefore, HEALTH
-RI is offering this integration training to the community as well as requiring new staff at HEALTH-RI funded testing sites to attend.
Successful completion of the course fulfills the Rhode Island law requirements for
HIV pre-test and post-test counseling. Participants must pre-register and successfully complete a written pre-test on HIV and viral hepatitis knowledge prior
to acceptance into the training. Participants are expected to have a working knowledge of HIV and viral hepatitis.
Prerequisites:
Participants must have completed HIV/Viral Hepatitis 101 within the past 2 years
and must be performing HIV and viral hepatitis CTR as part of their job duties, or must be planning to do so immediately upon course completion. Must complete and
pass a pre-test prior to being accepted into the training.
Approved for 18 Contact Hours for the "HIV/AIDS and Viral Hepatitis Specialty
Endorsement" in the domain of Integrated HIV and Viral Hepatitis Counseling, Testing, and Referral
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this training participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate that they have a working knowledge of the transmission, risk
factors and prevention strategies (i.e. condom use, syringe exchange) associated with HIV and viral hepatitis;
- Access information on resources and make referrals to HIV and viral hepatitis services in Rhode Island;
- Access information on current Rhode Island laws and regulations on HIV and viral hepatitis testing and reporting;
- Conduct the 8 step process for pre-and post-test counseling:
Step 1: introduce and orient clients to HIV and viral hepatitis CTR services;
Step 2: assess clients personal risk factors for HIV and viral hepatitis;
Step 3: assist clients with identifying safer sexual behavior, safer syringe sharing behavior and how to modify behaviors that increase their risk for HIV
and viral hepatitis (i.e. sharing drug paraphernalia, nasal drug use, tattooing from unlicensed facilitates, body piercing);
Step 4: assist clients with developing an action plan to modify risk behavior;
Step 5: make referrals to local community resources and provide support for accessing referrals;
Step 6: explain the steps in rapid or conventional HIV and viral hepatitis testing;
Step 7: provide post-test counseling to clients on the results of HIV and viral hepatitis tests with additional referrals and support as needed;
Step 8: summarize and close the HIV and viral hepatitis testing, counseling and referral session.
- Assess clients' readiness to access partner counseling and referral services.
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Introduction to Formative Evaluation
Jeremy Holman
April 5, 2010
9:00 am- 4:00pm
$40 Deposit Required
In this introductory training, participants will learn about various formative
evaluation methods, including needs assessments, focus groups, interviewing, literature reviews, and analysis of relevant public health and demographic data. The
purpose of this training is to help staff of community based organizations gather information that they can use to document and justify the need for services in a
particular community and to develop appropriate and effective HIV interventions that can respond to that need. The course is designed for participants with limited
knowledge of or experience in any formative evaluation methods, but who may have extensive knowledge of the communities with which they work.
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Basic Human Sexuality
Lucille Minuto, RN, BSN, MEd
June 2, 2010
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
$40 Deposit Required
The workshops will help the participants be more aware of their understanding on
human sexuality issues such as gender, sexual expression, intimacy and communication about sexual issues. Participants will be defining love and intimacy
for themselves; engaging in fun activities about how we communicate (and miscommunication) about sex; hear about the component of a healthy sexual
relationships. It is about information and increasing personal understanding.
Intended Audience
Basic Human Sexuality is for the preventionist dealing with sexuality issues with
clients. The purpose of the course is to increase the participant's understanding of human sexuality; it is NOT a course on sexual history taking or dealing with sexual
trauma issues. Participants are strongly encouraged to contact the course instructor with any questions about the suitability of the course to their needs.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of Session 1, the participants will be able to:
- Know the ground rules that best suit the needs of the individuals participating in the sessions.
- Understand terms associated with human sexual behavior such as sexual orientation, transsexuality and transgender.
- Identify the basic terms for sexual anatomy and physiology and sexual response.
- Discuss ways to use the course content with client groups and interactions.
Approved for 6 Contact Hours for the "HIV/AIDS and Viral Hepatitis Specialty
Endorsement" in the domain of "Sexual Risk Behaviors and Harm Reduction Strategies"
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TRAINER BIOGRAPHIES
- The African American Capacity Building Initiative (AACBI) is a program of the New York-based Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC). Funded by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), AACBI was developed to assist community based organizations (CBOs), health departments (HDs) and other
community stakeholders serving the African American community in the CDC's North Region with the provision of information transfer, technology transfer,
technical assistance, technical consultation and overall skills building.
- Carol Browning, MS, RN, BC is a nurse educator for the Rhode Island Department of Health's Office of HIV/AIDS and Viral Hepatitis. Ms. Browning
has trained extensively throughout the state of Rhode Island on the issues of HIV/AIDS pre-test and post-test counseling and other topics related to HIV and AIDS.
- Dominic Cappello is a nationally recognized developer of training programs
for public health and safety for teachers, parents, and their children. Cappello is the creator of the National Education Association's "Can We Talk About
Puberty and Sexuality?" and "Can We Talk About Bullying and Drugs?" family communication program focusing on the vital role of parents in youth health
and safety. He also directs the Can We Talk? program in Rhode Island. Cappello is also the co-author and illustrator of the New York Times best
-selling Ten Talks Parents Must Have with their Children About Sex and Character (with Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D.), Ten Talks About Drugs and Choices
(with Xenia G. Becher, MSW), and the author of Ten Talks About Violence. He has shared his innovative approaches to public education and adult-child communication on Oprah, NBC's Today, ABC News, and CNN.
- Sandra DelSesto, M.Ed. has been a community planner, master trainer and
program developer in alcohol and other drug prevention for over 25 years. She is also a member of the prevention committee of the International Certification
and Reciprocity Consortium. In addition, she has developed a number of successful programs including HIV prevention, school health, and programs that specifically address the needs of youth at risk.
- Alfred L. Forbes is a Boston-based consultant with A. L. Forbes Consulting
Services. He has worked in various roles in the health service field for over 15 years and has conducted workshops nationally for the past 8 years.
- Jeremy Holman, PhD is a Senior Consultant at John Snow, Inc., and has
over eight years experience in the HIV/AIDS field. Since 2005, Dr. Holman has managed JSI's National Data Technical Assistance Center and has worked with
state and local projects to improve HIV service delivery. Before joining JSI, Dr. Holman was Executive Director of Boston AIDS Consortium (BAC),a local CBO
that provided HIV planning, capacity building, and TA services to enable minority CBOs in Massachusetts to implement effective HIV care and prevention programs for people of color, and to support the Boston EMA
Planning Council. An experienced trainer, Dr. Holman specializes in comprehensive planning, evaluating HIV/AIDS services, developing and implementing needs assessments and other community studies, maximizing
PLWH consumer involvement, developing standards of care and other quality management methods. In addition to his work at JSI, Dr. Holman is also an
adjunct instructor at Lesley University where he teaches world geography.
- Roger Jadosz, RN, BSN is a nurse with over 20 years of experience. Since
2000, Mr. Jadosz has been a health educator and nurse at the University of Rhode Island, where he founded the Designer Drug Awareness Program and
Project GHB. He trains on the effects and dangers of designer drugs throughout the state, and provides other training and medical services to
students at the university. Mr. Jadosz also works with Phoenix House in the detoxificaton unit, and with the Rhode Island Department of Corrections as a per diem nurse.
- Manos Unidas at the Latino Commission on AIDS (LCOA) works to enhance the effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions that target Latino
communities (both HIV positive and HIV negative) who are at high risk for contracting and /or transmitting HIV and other STDs through sex and drug
-related activities. Manos Unidas assists CDC-funded and non-funded community based organizations in specifically targeting its services to such
vulnerable populations as well as among pregnant women (especially those with drug use histories, present use or drug using partners), men who partner
with men, HIV positive individuals and their partners, and people who are at high risk for HIV injection, but do not know their HIV status.
- Donna McCarten White, RN, PhD, CADAC-II, CARN is the Addiction Specialist for the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, a Public Health Hospital for the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She holds an MSN from the University of Massachusetts/Boston, is a licensed drug and alcohol counselor with an
additional certification in advanced Drug and Alcohol Counseling, and is certified in Chemical Dependency and Addictions Nursing. She completed her
doctoral studies in Human Behavior with her dissertation in Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Traumatization in Healthcare Professionals. Donna is a
recognized leader in the field of Addictions, Impaired Practice and Peer Assistance, as well as Healthcare Professional Stress.
- Lucille Minuto, RN, BSN, MEd, is the Assistant Administrator at the Office of HIV/AIDS & Viral Hepatitis at the Rhode Island Department of Health. She has
been a public health educator in a variety of community and academic settings before coming to the Department of Health in 1995. Most of her
public health work has been in the area of human sexuality, substance use prevention and HIV. She has been teaching a course on Human Sexuality at a local college since the 1980's.
- Pam Petersen-Baston has a BSW and an MPA from the University of South
Florida in Tampa. She has worked in the alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse and prevention fields for over 20years. Pam's consulting company,
Solutions of Substance (SOS), Inc., provides grant writing services and has secured millions of dollars for program providers. SOS also provides
consultation and training services to substance abuse prevention and treatment providers; federal, state, and local government systems, public
housing authorities, and others. She is a nationally recognized trainer, a Certified Addictions Professional, and a Certified Addictions Prevention Professional.
- Shannon Spurlock, MA is the Project Director of the Rhode Island HIV/AIDS
Prevention Evaluation Project for John Snow, Inc., and has over fifteen years experience in the prevention field and six years of HIV/AIDS prevention
evaluation experience. Ms. Spurlock has trained and worked with RI HEALTH funded HIV/AIDS Prevention vendors to build evaluation capacity through the
development process and outcome measures and logic models. She also serves as the evaluation consultant for the RICPG.
- Jenn Steinfeld is the Director of Marriage Equality Rhode Island. She has
worked in HIV prevention for over 15 years, with particular expertise in youth development and harm reduction. She was the Coordinator of Project REACH
for over 2 years, and has provided training on a wide variety of topics related to HIV prevention, including HIV history, harm/risk reduction practices,
program design, grant writing, conflict resolution, LGBTQ issues and homophobia reduction strategies.
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Acceptance Policy
Please Note: effective October 2009 REACH will require a $40.00 deposit. Upon Completion of the course students/Agencies will be reimbursed their deposit. NO refund will be issued if the student does not cancel with 24 hour notice and does
not complete the course. Deposit fee waivers are available, and subject to approval. However, if a student is granted a fee waiver, and he or she does not attend the
course, then they will not be eligible to receive any future deposit fee waivers from REACH. Deposits must accompany your course application form in order to be accepted.
Students Applications are accepted on a first come, first served basis. All
prerequisites, if any, must be documented prior to final acceptance. Once we have reached capacity for an individual training, we will maintain a waiting list and
contact applicants by phone to notify them of late acceptance. If you have not received notification of your acceptance into a particular course, please call Project
REACH at 521-5759 ext. 17. HIV contractors of the Rhode Island Department of Health receive priority acceptance.
Course Times and Location
Unless otherwise noted, all courses will take place at DATA of Rhode Island, 102
Dupont Drive in Providence. The majority of courses take place from 9 am to 4 pm. Other course times are indicated in the course description.
Meals
Please bring your own lunch or be prepared to purchase lunch locally. There are
many restaurants located near the Project REACH office.
Cancellation Policy
Please contact Project REACH if you are unable to attend any training into which
you have been accepted, with at least 24 hours notice. Should an unforeseen emergency arise that forces us to cancel or postpone a training, we will make every
effort to notify you. In the event of inclement weather, cancellation of courses will be recorded on DATA's answering machine at 521-5759.
Course Levels
In order to provide you with a training experience that meets your expectations, we
offer course levels for most trainings. Please do not apply for a training if your background is inappropriate for the level of the course.
- Entry Level: Beginners in the HIV field, or new to subject area.
- Intermediate: Individuals with less than 5 years experience
- Advanced: Individuals with more than 5 years experience, with at least 1 year in a supervisory capacity.
Certificates of Completion
Certificates are given only for actual participation time. If you do not complete at least 80% of a training, you will not receive a certificate.
Directions to DATA of RI
102 Dupont Drive, Providence, RI 02907
- From Route 10 N: Take the Niantic Ave/Cranston Street exit. Keep straight
through the light (cross Niantic Ave.). Bear right onto Dupont Drive; #102 is on your right. Parking is available on the street or in the lot just past the building.
- From Route 10 S: Take the Huntington Ave. exit; keep straight onto
Huntington Ave (you will wind under Route 10). At the third light turn right onto Magnan Rd (crossing over Route 10). Turn left onto Dupont Drive.
- From Route 95 North: Take exit 16 to Route 10 N; follow directions from 10 N above.
- From Route 95 South: Take Exit 22B to Route 6 W to Route 10 S; follow directions from 10S above.
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