Community Education & Outreach

Developing Skills for Enhanced Outreach

This four-day training is designed to provide outreach workers with the skills to increase their effectiveness of conducting outreach to hard-to-reach populations using and Enhanced Outreach model. This training will provide outreach workers with a wide array of activities that will teach them how to approach clients, gain their trust and help clients access needed services (i.e., HIV services). The training includes opportunities for skills practice regarding health behavior change and concepts of motivational interviewing.

As a result of this training, participants will be able to:

  • Identify key outreach messages for targeted populations;
  • Summarize the stages of enhanced outreach;
  • Describe how multiple encounters is an effective approach to outreach;
  • List the stages of change; and
  • State at least three concepts of motivational interviewing.

Prerequisite: Although there is no prerequisite for this training, it is strongly recommended that participants have previous training in basic HIV/AIDS.

Audience: Experienced and new health and human service providers conducting outreach as part of their jobs.

**Please Note: Depending on the training center, this training will be offered in four consecutive days or two two-day sessions.

Date Location Registration Center
October 26-29 Syracuse REACH
October 26-27
November 9-10
Amityville CPHE

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Community HIV/AIDS Educator Training

This four-day training is designed to prepare the participants to serve as community HIV/AIDS educators. Participants will be required to give a presentation to the class on the final day of training.

As a result of this training, participants will learn:

  • Facts about HIV/AIDS;
  • Risk reduction skills and teaching strategies;
  • The effect of STDs on the transmission of HIV;
  • Information about HIV reporting and partner notification regulations;
  • Public speaking skills;
  • Nonjudgmental perspective, and cultural sensitivity; and
  • Other training skills such as answering participant's questions and facilitation of class discussion.

Prerequisite: None

Audience: All health and human service providers.

Date Location Registration Center
September 14-15, 21-22 Hawthorne ARCS
September 22-23, 24-25 Rochester CHBT

OASAS: The New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute is an OASAS Certified Education and Training Provider. This course is approved for initial credentialing and renewal of CASAC, CPP and CPS, unless otherwise noted. 26.00 clock hours.*

*Course are not approved for initial credentialing for CPS.

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