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PreventionWorks!

2501 Benning Rd NE

Mark Kinzly from the Harm Reduction Coalition will be flying down for this training. Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies to reduce negative consequences of drug use and improve the quality of the client’s life. The harm reduction approach incorporates a spectrum of strategies which include safer and managed use, as well as abstinence. This approach helps providers effectively meet their clients where they’re at. Participants who attend this training will: understand the principles of harm reduction, participate in activities designed to assist them in exploring attitudes and beliefs about harm reduction, and develop practical skills and interventions that can be used in their work with substance users.

Space is limited! To reserve a spot, please send an email to Mary Beth Levin: mlevin@preventionworksdc.org.

This training will be offered twice at PreventionWorks! 

Wednesday July 7, 9am-3pm and
Thursday July 8, 9am-3pm

This training will provide information useful to adapting and adopting hepatitis prevention strategies as part of your program. It is designed to build specific skills, increase knowledge regarding hepatitis risk-reduction & prevention counseling and also increase knowledge on the need for building effective linkages for vaccination and screening services. It will be provided by Yasir Shah, Adult Viral Hepatitis Prevention Coordinator, DC Department of Health.

We are located at 2501 Benning Rd, NE. We have our own parking lot which you are welcome to use. The X2 bus stops on our block.

Spaces are limited! If interested, please send an email to Mary Beth Levin (mlevin@preventionworksdc.org).

Young people are meeting and gathering online more than ever, which makes the internet the perfect place to conduct outreach to youth about sexual health and life skills. this interactive workshop will show youth service providers how to transform a street outreach program into a successful internet outreach program. This training is free and open to any professional who works with youth (ages 13-24). Space is limited to reserve a spot, e-mail iwebster@metroteenaids.org.

This workshop takes place on Wednesday July 14th, 2010 from 12:00 to 2:00 PM at Metro TeenAIDS, 651 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE. Lunch provided.

The HIV Prevention Capacity Building Project at Metro TeenAIDS will host a free training on HIV counseling to youth (ages 13-24). Effective HIV Counseling for Youth Thursday, June 24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Frank Reeves Center 2000 14th Street NW (14th and U) Lunch Provided This free training is intended for individuals who serve youth and want to learn how to be comfortable in speaking with them about risky behaviors and taking steps to understand and reduce personal risk. This is ideal for individuals who provide HIV testing and counseling as well as anyone who works with youth on a regular basis and wants to learn how to engage them in conversations about positive health and life decisions. Training will explore best practice models for providing counseling to youth and cover motivational interviewing and include role plays to reinforce key points. To reserve spots in this training, please send an RSVP to Isaiah Webster at iwebster@metroteenaids.org. For up-to-date information about capacity building services at Metro TeenAIDS, visit www.capacitytalk.blogspot.com.

This summer, Metro TeenAIDS is sponsoring its second series of adult sex ed classes, designed to help adults speak with youth about sexual health in a positive and supportive way.

The class focuses on incorporating topics of sexual health and positive decision-making into conversations across childhood and into adolescence. The goal is for sexual health to become a topic like careers, college planning, and general life goals — an on-going topic among family members that increase in detail and sophistication as youth mature.

For more information, contact Chrissy Balz. cbalz@metroteenaids.org

Changing Course: Stemming the Deadly Twin Epidemics of HIV and Tuberculosis
Latest Data, Promising Scientific Advances, and a Call to Action on
World’s Two Leading Infectious Disease Killers
Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. - Washington, D.C.

As alarms sound about a weakening international commitment to global AIDS, scientists will gather in Washington, DC to report on potentially transformative new tools in the battle against this deadly epidemic. US policy is moving backwards at a time when the science is more promising than ever. The diminishing commitment by the US and other donor countries has devastating implications not just for the fight against AIDS, but also the battle against its deadly partner, TB. In this timely session - just as U.S. policymakers prepare to make key decisions about global health spending -- a group of the nation’s leading scientists and advocates will discuss opportunities and challenges for combating the deadly dual epidemics of HIV and TB. Join Anthony Fauci, MD, director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation; HIV scientist and clinician, Kenneth Mayer, MD, of Brown University; Mark Harrington, executive director of the Treatment Action Group; and other experts to discuss new scientific opportunities and urgent political strategies to reverse the course of the HIV and TB epidemics and the consequences of reduced funding. The presentations coincide with the release of a special May 2010 supplement of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, which focuses on the scope of HIV and TB globally and showcases advances in diagnostics, treatment, and prevention.

WHO:Anthony Fauci, MD, Director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
William J. Burman, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Division of Infectious Diseases
J. Peter Cegielski, MD, MDR-TB Team Leader at CDC’s Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE)
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, Chief of the Infectious Diseases Division at Harlem Hospital Center; Director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Research and Professor of Clinical Medicine and Epidemiology at Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Mark Harrington, Executive Director of the Treatment Action Group
Kenneth Mayer, MD, Professor of Medicine & Community Health at Brown University and Director of the Brown University AIDS Program
Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital

WHEN:9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
WHERE:Reserve Officers Association/Top of the Hill Banquet and Conference Center
One Constitution Ave. NE, Washington, DC (across from the Dirksen Senate Office Building)
Ballroom B, 5th Floor
Metro: Union Station (Red Line)

RSVP:RSVP for this event online at: http://sciencespeaks.wordpress.com/about/global-hiv-tb-briefing/ or mgeis@burnesscommunications.com with any questions about the event.

OraQuick Advance Rapid Test Workshop

Saturday, May 8th, 9am-12pm

Prevention Works!

2501 Benning Rd NE

This workshop prepares participants to administer the OraQuick Advance rapid test.  This training will not cover counseling skills, outreach or HIV/AIDS information and education. It is preferred (but not required) that you complete training in HIV education and counseling prior to taking this workshop.  This workshop is free.

Space is limited! 

Participants must be pre-registered to ensure admission to the workshop. To register, send an email to Mary Beth Levin at mlevin@preventionworksdc.org.

Thursday, February 25th

10am-12pm

2501 Benning Rd NE

This training is a must for those performing HIV testing in DC!

PEMS (Program Evaluation and Monitoring System) is the data collection system (paperwork) everyone performing HIV testing in DC needs to submit. Keith Floyd and Patrice Ward from the Department of Health will be providing this training. This is a unique opportunity to get all of your questions and concerns answered directly from the source.

Spaces are limited! To reserve a seat, please email Mary Beth Levin (mlevin@preventionworksdc.org).

d-up: Defend Yourself! is a community-level HIV prevention intervention designed for and developed by black men who have sex with men (MSM). d-up! is designed to promote social norms of condom use and assist black MSM to recognize and handle risk related racial and sexual bias. This training will show participants how to adapt the intervention to reach young men who have sex with men. This intermediate level training is best suited for community-based professionals who work with young men who have sex with men.

For additional information on this intervention : click here.

Training Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
• Understand the purpose and theory behind the “d-up!” intervention.
• Adapt “d-up!” to reach young men who have sex with men
• Identify ways to integrate “d-up!” into existing programs

The training is free and will be held Friday, January 22 from 9:30-3:30 p.m. Lunch is provided. To RSVP for the training, email iwebster@metroteenaids.org.

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Free Training: HIV Meds & Street drugs and Outreach to Crack and Methamphetamine Users
Thursday, September 24th, 10am-4pm
Prevention Works!
2501 Benning Rd NE

This is part of our series of trainings facilitated by technical experts from the Harm Reduction Coalition in New York. The description is as follows:

HIV Meds and Street Drugs
In this current "abstinence only" culture, there has been minimal research conducted on how street drugs and HIV medications interact. This half-day course will take an honest look at how ecstasy, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines can potentially have a negative interaction with HIV/AIDS medications. This course is a must for HIV/AIDS case managers!

Outreach to Crack and Methamphetamine Users
This workshop will demonstrate and discuss the techniques for working with crack and meth users, a community of people traditionally neglected by service agencies. This workshop will focus on specific outreach tools, materials, and harm reduction tactics that have been successful with this "hard to reach" population. Attendees will leave this training with practical ideas and skills that they can apply to their own setting and the people they work with.

Spaces are limited! To reserve a space, please email Mary Beth Levin (mlevin@preventionworksdc.org).