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| The course I attended provided great information and useful tips for conducting counseling sessions with my clients. I've been working in prevention for a short time, so the training I received helped me tremendously. |
| – | Sterling Terry
Outreach Specialist
AIDS Project Quad Cities
Rock Island IL | |
Behavioral Training
The behavioral interventions training program offers a range of courses to teach evidence-based interventions. We also offer program support courses that are designed to improve agency capacity and to increase the quality of services delivered in community settings. Our current behavioral training courses are listed below. Use the box to select a different sub-category or to view the complete course catalog. Learn more about the Behavioral training program. Contact us for more detailed information about any course.
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| CLEAR - Choosing Life: Empowerment, Action, Results!
(4 days) NEW!
CLEAR: Choosing Life: Empowerment! Action! Results! is an evidence-based health promotion intervention for individuals ages 16 and older living with HIV/AIDS or at high-risk for HIV. CLEAR is client centered program delivered one-on-one using cognitive behavioral techniques to change behavior. The intervention provides clients with the skills necessary to be able to make health choices for their lives. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines identify CLEAR as a structured intervention that may be integrated into Comprehensive Risk Counseling and Services (CRCS) programs.
More information is availble from effectiveinterventions.org. (Learn more)
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| Comprehensive Risk Counseling and Services
(3 days)
This three-day course is designed for STD/HIV health professionals who plan to provide or are already providing HIV Comprehensive Risk Counseling and Services (CRCS). This skills-based training on the CRCS Process includes an overview of the CRCS model; the role of CRCS counselors; legal and ethical issues; cultural competence; theories that underlie CRCS; program components and standards; and tasks involved in the CRCS core elements of recruitment, engagement, screening, enrollment, assessment, prevention planning, risk-reduction counseling, active coordination of referrals, monitoring and reassessment, and discharge planning.
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| Focus Groups: Planning, Facilitating, and Basic Analysis
(1 day) This one-day course is for STD/HIV prevention professionals and other human service professionals. The course is designed to introduce participants to the purpose of focus groups for formative research and program development. Participants get hands on experience in developing topic guides for focus groups, learning how to implement focus groups, and in moderating and observing focus groups. The course is also designed to introduce participants to basic components of analysis. |
| Partnership for Health
(1 day) 3.75 hours
Partnership for Health 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 patient-provider communication about safer sex, disclosure of HIV serostatus, and HIV prevention. Implementation of PfH includes development of clinic and staff "buy-in" and training. Training for this intervention is conducted in a specific sequences of course that can be tailored to your clinic needs:
- Orientation (occurs 2-4 weeks before clinic training): to introduce staff and providers to the intervention
- Clinic Training: to prepare clinic providers and staff with the necessary skills to provide the PfH intervention to every patient at every clinical visit.
- Booster Session (occurs 4-6 weeks after the clinic training ): provides opportunities for clinic providers and staff to refresh there understanding and skills related to PfH and to introduce topics related to the intervention such as helping patients build safer sex skills and disclosure skills.
This intervention is specifically designed for use in medical clinics. (Learn more)
To request training for your clinic, please send us an (email) or call 303-602-3605. |
| RESPECT
(2 days) Learn a brief model to help clients at increased risk for STD/HIV identify the circumstances in which their high risk behaviors occur, and develop realistic goal behaviors and action steps to accomplish them. The RESPECT intervention is designed to support risk reduction behaviors by increasing the client's perception of his/her personal risks and by emphasizing incremental risk-reduction strategies. The intervention uses a structured protocol that guides the provider/counselor throughout the sessions. This training is based on Project RESPECT, a multi-site randomized research study that examined the effectiveness of client-centered counseling (CCC). ( Learn more) |
| Using Focus Groups for Adapting Effective Behavioral Interventions
(2 days)
(This course is currently under development.)
This course is desgined to provide participants with the skills to use focus group results to adapt Effective Behavioral Interventions (EBIs) that best fit their community’s HIV prevention needs and organization’s capacity. This focus group research process will consequently provide the foundation for successful adaptation and implementation of the intervention(s).
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