Health & Wellness Self-management Training (virtual)

This 3-day training will cover relevant health information for our five tracks, HIV, Hep C, Harm Reduction, PrEP and our newest addition, Criminal Justice.

Goal

One of the principal goals of the Leadership Training Institute (LTI) is to build capacity, strength and support for community leaders, with shared lived experiences, in HIV, HCV, Harm Reduction and PrEP, to assist in their responses to the disparities in these areas of healthcare.

The LTI provides these courses 3 times per contract year to Peers who are either Certified Peer Workers and/or are seeking Peer certification.

This training is also provided to people who are non-physician health and human service providers, who work with people who are living with, or are at risk for, HIV, HCV, STIs; the LGBTQIA+/GNC community, as well as people who are practicing Harm Reduction for a substance use disorder.

This training can also include Social Workers, Nurses, Care Coordinators, Case Managers, Certified Peer Workers, people working in Behavior Health, PrEP educators, or supervisors of Peer workers.

This training is also for Peers who are interested in taking the Intro to Peer Work, (1 day) which is designed to help you decide if you want to pursue peer certification, and if so, take the follow-up course, Inventory of the Peer Worker (2 days).

There are 12 hours of CEU credits for anyone taking this course except for non-certified Peer Workers, who are pursuing certification, which means there are no credits for this course until you complete certification.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

-Define the 8 dimensions of wellness.

-Address viral suppression and its importance to ETE.

-Define what “self-care” means to you.

-Deliver health information about Hep C testing and treatment to assist others in accessing these services.

-Discuss and process reasons PrEP is not being accessed and/or used by all populations at similar or equal rates.

-Define how harm reduction can be used to lessen the negative social and/or physical consequences associated with various human behaviors, like SUD.

-Identify how Peer Mentoring can be an asset in accomplishing goals.