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Convening Objectives:

✔ Strengthen relationship of learning collaborative recipients & share lessons on implementation of bundled interventions
✔ Identify ways to prepare for program sustainability
✔ Discuss progress on the multi-site evaluation data collected to date and dissemination of products
✔ Increase recipient knowledge of theme-based topics and share best practices that support improving health outcomes for Black women with HIV

 

Day 1: Tuesday, February 15th , 2022
TIME ACTIVITY PRESENTER
12:00 - 12:30 pm ET Welcome and Introduction

HRSA –Antigone Dempsey, DPD Division
Director, Marlene Matosky, Stacy Cohen, and Adan Cajina

ETAP
12:40 - 12:55 pm ET Introduction | Energizer Site Teams
12:55 - 1:50 pm ET PLENARY: Multi-Site Evaluation - Progress to date 
The ETAP Team will provide an update on significant initiative progress, including highlights from programmatic and evaluative projects. 

Learning Objectives
  1. Participants will understand major initiative milestones, including implementation, evaluation, and reporting
  2. Participants will understand the  implementation science framework utilized by the project, which includes periodic assessments, refinements, and adaptations
  3. Participants will understand upcoming BWF deliverables.
 ETAP Team
1:50 - 2:35 pm ET Meal Break Meeting Masters
2:35 - 3:20 pm ET Breakout: Site Updates Part I 
 

Attendees will choose which breakout they would like to attend.

Participants will have the opportunity to engage their peers across the intervention domains. Sites will discuss what they have learned, a challenge, and some of their successes. 


Learning Objectives
  1. Participants will describe their site-specific bundled interventions  
  2. Participants will understand the site’s implementation plans and progress 
  3. Participants will enhance relationships among their cohort.

ETAP Moderators: TBD

Breakout One:

  1. Grady Health Systems
  2. University of California, San Francisco
  3. AIDS Foundation Chicago

Breakout Two:

  1. Access Matters
  2. Quality Home Care Services 
  3. Volunteers of America, SE Louisiana


 
3:20 - 4:00 pm ET

PLENARY: Recruitment and Retention
Three sites will discuss their strategies in effectively recruiting and retaining black cis and transgender women. 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Discuss strategies that help engage black cis and transgender women during the enrollment phase
  2. Learn ways to collaborate with community partners to increase enrollment
  3. Participants will learn outreach methods that have been successful at their site

BWF Sites

  1. Alliance for Positive Change
  2. Positive Impact Health Center
  3. AIDS Care Group 
4:00 - 4:15 pm ET Debrief & Wrap Up

ETAP Team
 

Day 2: Wednesday, February 16th, 2021
TIME ACTIVITY PRESENTER
12:00 - 12:15 pm ET Welcome and Grounding Exercise

HRSA – Corliss D. Heath

ETAP
12:15 - 1:15 pm ET

PLENARY: Cultural Humility 
This presentation will provide an overview of Cultural Humility and the four pillars that will impact service delivery:
Pillar 1.  A lifelong process of critical self-reflection and self-critique. 
Pillar 2. Redressing power imbalances in the patient-provider dynamic
Pillar 3.  Developing mutually beneficial partnerships with communities on behalf of individuals and defined populations.
Pillar 4. Advocating and maintaining institutional accountability that parallels the three principles above. 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will identify and define four cultural humility pillars that will impact service delivery.
  2. Participants will gain ongoing awareness of and critique their cultural lens, biases, power, privileges, and identities on a macro and micro level. 
  3. Participants will recognize the provider/client relationship that occurs within the community’s context, which includes its history, politics, economic.
 Simone Phillips, SPG Group
1:15 - 1:25 pm ET Break Meeting Masters
1:25 - 2:15 pm ET

Breakout: Site Update Part II Attendees will choose which breakout they would like to attend

Participants will have the opportunity to engage their peers across the intervention domains. Sites will discuss what they have learned, a challenge, and some of their successes. 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will describe their site-specific bundled interventions  
  2. Participants will understand the site’s implementation plans and progress 
  3. Participants will enhance relationships among their cohort 

ETAP Moderators:

Breakout One:

  1. AIDS Care Group
  2. The Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies (IWES)
  3. Alliance for Positive Change

Breakout Two: 

  1. Positive Impact Health Center
  2. Abounding Prosperity 
  3. City of Philadelphia, Dept. of Public Health 

2:15 - 2:50 pm ET

Meal Break

Meeting  Masters

2:50 - 3:00 pm ET

Music & Stretching

ETAP (or Volunteer)

3:00 - 4:00 pm ET

Breakout Sessions: Cohort Discussions
Specific sites have been selected to share a case study, discuss their bundled interventions implemented, the challenges, and enlist support from peers.
1. Stigma Reduction 
2. Self-Efficacy and Resiliency 
3. Peer/Patient Navigation & Red-Carpet Experience
4. Intimate Partner Violence 
5. Trauma Informed Care
6. Evaluation 
  1. Alicia Downes, AU and ETAP
  2. Masill Miranda, AU and ETAP
  3. Simone Philips, SPG Group and ETAP
  4. Nakesha Powell, BWHI and ETAP
  5. Rochelle Turner, Prism Health and ETAP
  6.  Clara Chen, Boston University and Esther Jennings, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

4:00 - 4:15 pm ET

Debrief & Wrap Up

ETAP Team

 

Day 3: Thursday, February 17th, 2021

TIME

ACTIVITY

PRESENTER

12:00 - 12:15 pm ET

Welcome and Grounding Exercise

ETAP

12:15 - 1:30 pm ET

Breakout Sessions: 
Attendees will choose which breakout they would like to attend

  1. Meaningful Involvement of People with HIV/AIDS (MIPA)
  2. Photovoice
  3. Gender Affirming Care 
  4. Strategies to Enhance Self-Care
  5. Racial Equity Action Plans

ETAP Moderators:

  1. Venita Ray
  2. Judith Scott and Linda Sprague Martinez
  3. Tori Cooper
  4. Kelly Stevens
  5. Cecilia Flores-Rodriguez and Angela Wangari Walter

1:30 - 2:00 pm ET

Meal Break

Meeting Masters

2:00 - 2:15 pm ET

Energizer

ETAP

2:15 - 2:45 pm ET

Implementation Manual
This session will serve as a preview for the Implementation Manual Technical Assistance (TA) webinar taking place after the February convening. Participants are encouraged to use the tips and resources provided during this session to begin the manual writing process. 
 
Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain the importance and role of implementation manuals as tools for advancing HIV care and treatment for Black women with HIV 
  2. Discuss strategic tips for starting the manual writing process including general pitfalls to avoid
  3. Locate existing manuals from other SPNS initiatives and highlight what's working in well executed manuals

Impact Marketing Inc. and Erik Moore (Positive Impact Health Center)

2:45 - 3:30 pm ET

Program Sustainability

Attendees will learn the benefits of engaging in sustainability discussions within their organization, describe the assessment, how organizations can use the results from their individualized assessment to pull together a working group to plan the sustainment of their program.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Discuss plans and indicators for program sustainability
  2. Participants will discuss the importance of sustaining their programs and engaging leadership at their organizations in the process
  3. Participants will learn how to measure sustainability of their programs, i.e., Program Sustainability Assessment Tool (PSAT)

 

Kim Prewitt, Washington University, St. Louis

3:30 - 4:00 pm ET

New Nickels (documentary screening)
New Nickels, the documentary, highlights five black women living with HIV in the south; and follows their journey as they navigate stigma, find community and acceptance. 
  
The New Nickels documentary will be screened and introduced to the attendees by Iman Shervington, Director and Producer of the film. 

Learning Objectives:

1.    Hear from the creator of the film, Iman Shervington, what inspired the project and why it was essential to highlight the voices of black women with HIV

2.    Participants will learn from women in the documentary who shared what led them to emerge from the shadows, find community and self-love

3.    Discuss cultural relevancies and differences for Black women who are from the Caribbean or African countries in comparison to the south 

IWES and Iman Shervington, MFA

4:00 - 4:15 pm ET

Debrief & Wrap Up

 

ETAP Team
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