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All presentations will need to be relevant to one or more of the seven conference tracks. The conference tracks are listed and defined below, and examples are given of workshops that could be included under each track.
Track #1: Access to Care - This track will outline strategies and techniques designed to engage and retain people in care and maintain them in treatment, or to bring back into care so they can access an array of medical services. Workshops may focus and outline proven best practices to improve access to care for HIV positive individuals, especially those who are aware of their status and are currently not in care.
Examples of workshops for this track include, but are not limited to:
Track #2: Administration/Fiscal – This track will examine fiscal, administrative and policy implications.
Examples of workshops for this track include, but are not limited to:
- Strategic planning
- Developing a marketing plan
- Budgeting
- Payor of last resort
- Determining eligibility
- Grantwriting
Track #3: Coordination and Linkages – This track will feature best practices designed to develop and implement strategies to leverage, maximize funding and avoid duplication of services, by establishing effective collaboration and partnerships.
Examples of workshops for this track include, but are not limited to:
- Integrating HIV care with Hepatitis C, TB, and STI treatment
- Ryan White Parts working together
- Continuum of care system enhancements
- Working with state and local government programs
- Creative partnerships
- Faith based programs as points of contact for care and outreach
Track #4: Cultural Competency – This track will focus on best practices that will improve access to health care and will assist grantees in conducting effective outreach and delivering comprehensive, culturally appropriate, and quality HIV care. Attention will be placed on patient communication and increased knowledge of health practices for better patient heath outcomes.
Examples of workshops for this track include, but are not limited to:
- Effective strategies to deliver outreach and care to minority communities, such as African American, American Indian/Native Alaskans, Asian/Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, etc.
- Appropriate outreach, care and service to subpopulations, such as the homeless, women, MSM, youth, substance users, transgender, senior citizens, immigrants, formerly incarcerated, etc.
- Addressing stigma
- Minority AIDS Initiative projects
- Consumer leadership development
- Involvement of consumers in the planning process
- Linguistic competence
- Health literacy
- Conducting needs assessment in subpopulations
Track #5: Prevention/Care Continuum - This track will address the broad range of prevention, treatment, care and secondary prevention services. Attention will be given to best practices that incorporate prevention into care settings and access to care during prevention efforts.
Examples of workshops for this track include, but are not limited to:
- Outreach for care
- Methods to assist clinicians with secondary prevention
- Motivational interviewing
- Case finding
- Using harm reduction in the care setting
- Using peers in the care setting
Track #6: Program Development -This track will features ways for planning and delivering HIV care more effectively through improving agency capacity.
Examples of workshops for this track include, but are not limited to:
- Work plan development
- Capacity building
- Technical assistance
- Gap analysis
- Needs assessment
- Employee recruitment, selection and retention
- Training and support of staff
- Human resources
Track #7: Quality/Evaluation/Data - This track will examine approaches to improve and measure quality of HIV/AIDS care, and will feature the role of data collection and evaluation activities in documenting progress in achieving program goals and objectives.
Examples of workshops for this track include, but are not limited to:
- CQI, quality management and quality assurance
- Using clinical data to measure program outcomes
- Management information systems
- CAREWare
- Ryan White data report (RDR)
- Client level data
- Integration of multiple MIS systems
- Reports on special initiatives and replication
- Electronic medical records
- Basics of geomapping
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