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Community PROMISE: A Community-Level STD/HIV Behavioral Intervention (Available in Spanish)

The training for this intervention is conducted over two three-day courses. These courses are designed for STD/HIV health and prevention professionals, who plan, design and implement STD/HIV community level interventions. This intervention was originally called the AIDS Community Demonstration Projects and has come to be known as Community PROMISE. The first three-day course includes a one-day overview of the Community PROMISE intervention model and a two-day in-depth training on Community Identification, one of Community PROMISE's core elements. This course includes a comprehensive overview of the intervention, including the core elements necessary for Community PROMISE, as well as the methods used to effectively identify at risk populations within a community and the factors that influence their behaviors. Participants will learn the steps in conducting community identification and have ample time to practice interviewing, observation, and ways to analyze data without a research team. The second three-day course teaches two of the remaining core elements, Role Model Stories and Peer Advocates. Participants will learn how to interview for role model stories, as well as how to write and produce these stories. Additionally, participants learn how to recruit, train and maintain peer advocate networks. These two core elements comprise the "heart" of the PROMISE intervention model.

Community PROMISE Course 2 and 3

Community PROMISE is a community level intervention that is supported by a series of trainings. Course 1 is the Introduction and Overview to the Community PROMISE Intervention Model. Course 2 is to teach the community identification process. Course 3 is to build skills for writing Role Model Stories and managing Peer Advocate Networks. Courses 2 and 3 have a prerequisite of course 1.

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Healthy Relationships

This three-day course is a training of facilitators for Healthy Relationships, a 5-session small-group intervention for men and women living with HIV/AIDS. It is based on Social Cognitive Theory and, as such, focuses on the development of skills, building self-efficacy, and positive expectations about new behaviors through modeling behaviors and practicing new skills. Knowing that the lives of persons living with HIV/AIDS are stressful, the intervention focuses on building skills to reduce stress in three life areas: disclosure of HIV status to family and friends, disclosure to sex or needle sharing partners, and safer sexual behaviors. This is not a disclosure intervention - the skills that are developed are decision-making and problem-solving skills that enable the participants to make informed and safe decisions about disclosure and behaviors. In each of the three life areas, a series of exercises is repeated to create and develop the decision-making and problem-solving skills. The primary exercise is role-playing based on scenarios that are established by viewing short clips from popular movies. The intervention is highly adaptable, based on the choice of movie clips, and is intended to create a positive, engaging, and creative atmosphere.

Many Men, Many Voices (MMMV)

MMMV is a six- or seven-session, group level STD/HIV prevention intervention for gay men of color. The intervention addresses behavioral influencing factors specific to gay men of color, including cultural/social norms, sexual relationship dynamics, and the social influences of racism and homophobia. MMMV is designed to be facilitated by a peer in groups of 6-12 clients. The training for this intervention is done over two three-day courses, Level 1 and Level 2. Level 1 is where participants will experience the actual intervention and Level 2 is a Training of Facilitators. Anyone interested in implementing MMMV must attend both Level 1 and 2. The sessions are highly experiential, incorporating group exercises, behavioral skills practice, group discussions, and role play.

MPowerment Project

Multi-day, introductory training gives participants an in-depth understanding of the MPowerment project and the chance to interact with the original researchers and former Project coordinators. Core Elements and Key Components are covered. Mpowerment history and background of intervention. Programs main theoretical guiding principles. Program operating structure.

To register lease call Ben Zovod at 415-597-9306 or visit http://www.stdhivtraining.org/www.Mpowerment.org for additional registration information.

Partnership for Health: Intervention 1 day

Partnership for Health (PfH)
uses message framing, repetition, and reinforcement during
patient visits to increase HIV positive patients'
knowledge, skills, and motivations to practice safer
sex. The program is designed to improve patientprovider
communication about safer sex, disclosure
of HIV serostatus, and HIV prevention.
Implementation of PfH includes development of
clinic and staff "buy-in" and training.

VOICES/VOCES (Available in Spanish)

This two-day course teaches facilitation skills for a group-level, single-session video-based intervention designed to increase condom use among heterosexual African American and Latino men and women who visit STD clinics. Participants, grouped by gender and ethnicity, view an English or Spanish video on HIV risk behaviors and condom use and take part in a facilitated discussion. Health educators convene groups of 4-8 clinic patients in a room that allows privacy for discussions. Groups are gender-and-ethnic specific, so that participants can develop prevention strategies appropriate for their culture. Information on HIV risk behavior and condom use is delivered by videos, facilitated group discussion, and a poster board presenting features of various condom brands in English and Spanish. Two culturally specific videos are used: one for African- American participants and a bilingual video for Latinos. Skills in condom use and negotiation are modeled in the videos, then role-played and practiced by participants during the discussion that follows. At the end of the single, 45-minute session, participants are given samples of the types of condoms they have identified as best meeting their needs.