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HIV Housing Care Continuum Pre-Meeting Webinar
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In collaboration with HUD’s Office of HIV/AIDS Housing and the National AIDS Housing Coalition, Collaborative Solutions, Inc. has been tasked with carrying out a comprehensive Technical Assistance (TA) initiative that will include a series of regional meetings focused on building the capacity of Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) grantees to create HIV housing care continuums in their communities. By building HIV housing care continuums, HOPWA providers will be able to demonstrate the proportion of HOPWA beneficiaries that are engaged at each stage of HIV care. This TA effort will advance the White House HIV Care Continuum Initiative and the goals established by the HIV Care Continuum Federal Working Group by increasing the ability of HOPWA grantees to measure health outcomes and to understand how stable housing impacts health status and access to health care for persons living with HIV/AIDS. Grant recipients of the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program and Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) Program, as well as CoC Collaborative Applicants, may be interested in attending to learn strategies that will assist in addressing the issues of homeless persons living with HIV/AIDS in their geographic area or community.
Through guided discussions and strategic planning sessions, participants will develop strategies in their own communities to:
- Improve ability to measure client health outcomes;
- Create strategic partnerships to build a local HIV Housing Care Continuum; and
- Utilize local data to benefit clients by demonstrating the link between housing and health and engaging in cross-system advocacy efforts.
If you are interested in attending, we invite you to participate in a pre-meeting webinar on Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 3:00 PM CDT/4:00 PM EDT.
Join by phone
Call-in toll-free number: 1-877-223-6370 (US)
Conference Code: 530-218-2650
Join the WebEx Meeting
The four regional meetings will include:
Chicago, IL
August 31-September 1, 2015 | Washington, DC: The North American Housing & HIV/AIDS Research Summit
September 16, 2015 |
Atlanta, GA
September 29-30, 2015 | Portland, OR
October 14-15, 2015 |
Interested participants should complete the following form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZNMH8BV
By building and implementing an HIV Housing Care Continuum, agencies will encounter a number of opportunities including strategic partnerships that could lead to improved collaboration and coordination between the housing and health care systems, as well as a powerful advocacy tool that will not only demonstrate the link between housing and health, but provide for cross-system dialogue aimed at reducing new HIV infections and improving health outcomes for persons living with HIV/AIDS.
Meeting Point of Contact
Alison Goodwyn, 205-939-0411 x207, HIVHousing@collaborative-solutions.net
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