The summit creates discussion among HIV/AIDS providers, prevention workers, care outreach staff, city agency representatives, youth leaders, faith based groups, and consumers about evidence-based outreach strategies and best practices in targeting and connecting to care the most at-risk groups in Philadelphia. Along with our traditional faith-based, research, policy, and youth tracks, we’re excited to bring you another year of Sex Work and Latino tracks, along with the newest set of Housing and Transgender-specific prevention workshops!
This conference is for all of us!
People Living with HIV * Case Managers * Social Workers * Health Care Providers * Faith-based groups * Youth * Prevention Workers * Caregivers * City Employees * Researchers * Outreach Workers * School Nurse and Health Educators * Anyone interested in the latest HIV/AIDS Info!
Event Schedule:
9am-10am: Opening Remarks
- Master of Ceremonies: Rev. Dr. Ernest McNear
- Invocation: Bishop B. F. Peterson, New Life Development Corporation
- Jane Shull, Executive Director of Philadelphia FIGHT
- Donald F. Schwarz, MD, MPH, Deputy Mayor for Health and Opportunity
- AIDS Education Month Co-Chairs: Gary Bell, BEBASHI and Robb Reichard, Philadelphia AIDS Fund
- Keynote Speaker, Reverend Debra Hickman
- Juliet Fink, AEM Coordinator
10:15am-11:30am: Session 1
- HIV 101: What You Need to Know
- Pre-conceptual Counseling for Women Living with HIV: Preventive Measures to Ensure the Delivery of a HIV Negative Baby
- The Future of Black MSM HIV Prevention
- In My Backyard? Ethical Considerations Then and Now: Impacts on the Philadelphia Response to Research Participation
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Re-Careering: To Work or Not to Work?
- IDU’s and the Medical Community: Patient Needs from a Harm Reduction Point of View
- Linking, Retaining and Transitioning HIV + Youth
- Over Sixty, Sexy, And Susceptible: Why Seniors Should be Concerned about HIV? Become a HIV Resource to your Grandchildren and Other Persons Important in your Life!
- Everyone Needs a Home: HIV and the Housing Crisis
- TRICC’n It! The 5 Elements of a Healthy Relationship
11:45am-1:00pm: Session 2
- Women Fighting Back in AIDS Epidemic
- Because the T is Usually Silent: Being a Trans Ally in the LGBTQ Community
- Preparing for PrEP and Other ARV-based Prevention Interventions
- The Importance of Mind, Body, Spirit Wellness
- National Latino AIDS Awareness Day: Mobilizing Latino Communities and Expanding the Reach of Public Health through Local and State Partnerships
- The SCOPE Project: Disregarded Syringes in Kensington
- HIV and STI: What’s the Connection?
- When Faith-based Communities Join the Fight
- Sex Work, Prostitution and Trafficking: What’s the Difference?
- Couch Surfing Youth and HIV Transmission: Connecting the Dots with Data and Structural Change to Provide Better Shelter and Services
- Sexual Compulsivity and HIV Prevention: An intimate link
1:00pm-2:15pm: LUNCH
2:30pm-3:45pm: Session 3
- Tina and Her Sisters: How Party and Play Puts Gay Men at Greater Risk of HIV & STDs
- Can Low-Threshold Drug Counseling Interventions Work?
- People Living with HIV/AIDS: How to Build a Support System and Mentorship
- Let’s Talk about What we Aren’t Talking About
- How the War on Drugs has ‘Arrested’ HIV Prevention
- Mobilizing Community Media for HIV/AIDS Awareness
- A Social Xchange: Engagement of Ballroom Communities in HIV Prevention
- Community Response: Living with HIV, Spirituality and our Faith Communities
- I’m Still Standing Strong (22 years Living with HIV/AIDS)
- Creating Safe Space for Sex Workers
4:00pm-5:15pm: Session 4
- Woman in the mirror: Black Women on Black Women and HIV
- Working 9-5: Trans and the Workplace
- Advocacy in Philadelphia’s Latino Community
- Legislative and Policy Advocacy for Hot Button Issues
- What About Me? Focusing on the Needs of HIV/AIDS Providers
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