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How to Have Conversations with Patients About HIV – Engaging & Supporting Patients

Virtual
1.5 CE Hour
General
Free

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Location

  • On Demand
    Sessions will be available On-Demand
Description

We know that stigma inhibits access to and engagement in services. Through this training we seek to identify concrete tools we can use to talk to someone about their HIV status while offering practical and proven-effective strategies for communication with people living with HIV to promote connection to care.

Target Audience
  • Social Worker
  • Counselor
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal:

Participants will gain competency in discussing HIV diagnosis, treatment, and prevention with clients.

Learning Objectives

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

  1. Describe the role of stigma as it relates to access and engagement in health and social services.
  2. Identify and replace stigmatizing language/terms for empowering/non-judgmental terms associated with behaviors and health conditions experienced by patients to promote engagement.
  3. Describe best approaches, particularly what are good questions to ask when looking to engage someone about their experience living with HIV.
  4. Apply concrete action steps to promote compassionate and non-judgmental successful initial and ongoing interactions with people living with HIV by addressing stigma.
Introductory
General
Social Worker

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 General continuing education credits.

Counselor

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

The Louisiana Counseling Association is approved by the Louisiana Licensed Professional Board of Examiners to offer continuing education clock hours. This presentation has been reviewed and has been approved for 1.5 CE clock hours for Louisiana Licensed Professional Counselors.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development

CE Policy
TPN.health and this educator have no conflicts of interest and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents.
Slides
Tanagra Melgarejo

Tanagra M. Melgarejo (ella/she) was born and raised in Puerto Rico and is the proud daughter of Mexican and Cuban immigrants. She joined the National Harm Reduction Coalition in 2017 and is their National Learning and Engaging Strategist, overseeing NHRC’s national capacity building and learning and engagement portfolios. She holds an MSW from the University of Puerto Rico, where she was also a lecturer for their graduate school of social work. Tanagra is an intersectional feminist who believes in decolonization as the way towards liberation.

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