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- Best Practices Compilation (16)
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- Dissemination of Evidence Informed-Interventions Project (DEII) (2)
- Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health (2)
- The HIV, Housing & Employment Project (2)
- Wisconsin Department of Health Services (1)
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- SPNS Systems Linkages Project (1)
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- Center for Innovation and Engagement (1)
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Best Practices • 03/07/2024
Best Practices • 01/03/2024
Best Practices • 12/19/2023
Best Practices • 08/04/2023
Best Practices • 07/11/2023
Best Practices • 05/15/2023
Best Practices • 05/03/2023
Best Practices • 04/28/2023
Best Practices • 04/25/2023
Best Practices • 03/28/2023
Resources • 03/14/2023
Resources • 02/03/2023
Conference Presentations • 12/07/2022
Conference Presentations • 12/07/2022
Best Practices • 11/28/2022
Best Practices • 10/18/2022
Resources • 10/01/2022
Best Practices • 08/09/2022
Resources • 03/14/2023
Conference Presentations • 12/07/2022
Conference Presentations • 12/07/2022
Resources • 10/01/2022
Best Practices • 03/07/2024
The YGetIt? Program engaged youth and young adults with HIV in care through three components: a health management mobile application (GET!), Peer Engagement Educator Professionals (PEEPs), and a graphic serial (Tested). Tested received over 200,000 views, and viral suppression rates among YGetIt? participants increased from 79% to 86% over the course of the program.
Best Practices • 01/03/2024
The Alexis Project used social network recruiting and engagement, peer navigation, and contingency management to reach and engage transgender women of color with HIV who were not engaged in HIV care. Participation in the 18-month intervention improved linkage to care and viral suppression.
Best Practices • 12/19/2023
The Village Project is an intensive case management-based intervention that harnesses peer navigation and integrated behavioral health services to improve the health outcomes of young Black gay, bisexual, and men who have sex with men. The Village Project was associated with increased retention in care and viral suppression.
Best Practices • 08/04/2023
Project to enhance the provision of HIV care for Latina transgender women in Los Angeles County.
Best Practices • 07/11/2023
The Positive Peers app motivates youth and young adults with HIV to stay engaged in HIV care through self-management tools and virtual support. Although specific outcomes vary by age group, individuals who used the app were more likely to attend their medical appointments, receive labs, and reach viral suppression.
Best Practices • 05/15/2023
Project Vogue provided community-based care coordination, HIV care, and behavioral health services to Black men who have sex with men (MSM) within New York City’s House & Ball community to address the unique cultural barriers that Black MSM experience when trying to access care. Project Vogue participants were linked to behavioral health services as well as to non-clinical supportive services, such as food and housing assistance.
Best Practices • 05/03/2023
2BU is a case management intervention designed to engage and reengage Black men who have sex with men with HIV into HIV care services. Peer case managers work closely with clients to increase HIV health literacy, troubleshoot accessibility issues to HIV care, and connect clients directly to behavioral health and support services. Clients who participated in 2BU had increased retention in care and viral suppression 12 months after enrollment.
Best Practices • 04/28/2023
Viviendo Valiente aims to reduce ethnic disparities in HIV care and outcomes by providing culturally responsive services to the Latino/a community, specifically to people of Mexican descent. It is a multi-level intervention, featuring individual-, group-, and community-level activities, that links people to HIV care, offers HIV education and health literacy in group sessions, and promotes community-level testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Viviendo Valiente had positive impacts on HIV testing, retention in care, viral suppression, and client satisfaction.
Best Practices • 04/25/2023
ERASE was developed to address the unique needs of Black MSM. Through an intensive case management intervention, peer case managers provide health education and wellness support, and connect clients to medical and behavioral healthcare. ERASE also offers a physical “safe space” for Black MSM to meet with a case manager, access medical services, or connect with peers. Enrollment in ERASE improved retention in HIV care for clients.
Best Practices • 03/28/2023
STYLE 2.0 is a multi-component intervention designed to help reduce stigma and social isolation for Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. The intervention relies on health care navigators who facilitate linkage and engagement activities. They also connect clients to behavioral health providers who conduct motivational interviewing, as well as to a mobile application that supports all intervention activities. STYLE 2.0 participation has been associated with positive trends across HIV care continuum outcomes, including retention in care and increased viral suppression.
Resources • 03/14/2023
Use of participatory arts to generate dialogue and engage individuals in receiving health care and participating in community activities.
Resources • 02/03/2023
How to create a photovoice: participatory action research that engages people in the process of naming, capturing, and strengthening their community through photography.
Conference Presentations • 12/07/2022
Review of the RWHAP SPNS initiative Improving Care and Treatment Coordination for Black Women with HIV, which promotes meaningful involvement of Black women with HIV.
Conference Presentations • 12/07/2022
The Black Women First Initiative leads participants in building a mutual understanding of racial justice issues.
Best Practices • 11/28/2022
Bienestar developed TransActivate to improve timely engagement and retention in HIV care among Latina transgender women. Linkage coordinators/peer navigators use a strengths-based approach to help clients reach their goals of entering and staying in medical care to ultimately reach viral suppression.
Best Practices • 10/18/2022
Ten organizations across the U.S. integrated Community Health Workers (CHWs) into their multidisciplinary care teams. Enrolled clients had statistically significant improvements in viral suppression, antiretroviral therapy prescription, and appointment attendance after six months in the program.
Resources • 10/01/2022
How consumer and community advisory boards can inform the development of evidence based interventions for Black women with HIV.
Best Practices • 08/09/2022
Project CONNECT uses linkage coordinators to effectively engage people in HIV medical care. It focuses on people with newly diagnosed HIV or people with HIV who are transferring their care or have been out of care. AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland implemented Project CONNECT as part of E2i, an initiative funded by the RWHAP Part F SPNS program from 2017–2021. Project CONNECT was successful in increasing the number of clients retained in HIV care and who reached viral suppression.