Positive Strengths: Building Provider Competencies and Skills in Prevention with HIV+ Clients

This two-day training introduces an asset-based approach to prevention with positives that utilizes clients’ strengths and resiliencies as a means to respond to the associated challenges of living with HIV.

There are two primary goals for the training. One is to provide a framework for effective prevention work through an understanding of the shared experiences of people living with HIV. The second is to enhance the ability to provide prevention services from a strength-based perspective.

Topics include recognizing and responding to HIV-related stigma, assessing clients' strengths and resiliencies, risk redefinition from acquisition-based to transmission-based, the challenges of HIV status disclosure and strength-based models for supporting risk reduction. The purpose is to build provider competencies specific to prevention work with HIV+ clients.

The course is approved for 13.8 CE (Nursing Contact Hours).