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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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| 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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| Many Men, Many Voices (MMMV) - Level 2
(3 days)
This Level 2 course is the training of peer facilators for the group-level intervention. Anyone interested in implementing MMMV must attend both Level 1 and 2.
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.
The CDC has established specific guidelines for participating in this training. (Learn more)
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| 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) |
| Selecting Effective Behavioral Interventions
(2 days)
The primary goal of this two-day training is to provide participants with an understanding of the systematic process for selecting evidence-based behavioral intervention(s) that best fit their community's unique circumstances and organization's capacity. Consequently, this provides the foundation for successful adaptation and implementation. The course will familiarize participants with common terminology and concepts related to selection and the framework designed to select the most appropriate intervention(s).
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| Using Focus Groups for Adapting Effective Behavioral Interventions
(2 days) NEW!
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. Participants will learn the common types of adaptation and how focus group results can inform decisions about the intervention changes that are most likely to influence behavior change for their intervention population. This focus group research method will consequently provide the foundation for successful adaptation and implementation of the intervention(s).
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