Expanding Capabilities

Let Realize Resources develop and deliver workshops tailored to the unique needs of your organization and your staff. Working closely with you and your staff to assess and address desired skills as well as existing assets, our team will make the most of your precious resources to help your staff be more skillful, effective and efficient. From one-time workshops, to a series of longer trainings over time, Realize Resources can work with you to meet your goals. 

Our workshops are developed to address a variety of needs, for individuals seeking professional development, organizations striving to build internal capacity in a fully integrated process, and health departments working to provide high quality, consistent, accurate, and well-delivered services across the system. 

 

Click here for a description of all of our workshops. 

Click here  for more information on the Core HIV/AIDS Service Provider trainings Realize Resources provides for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Office of HIV/AIDS. 

Upcoming Workshops

Contact Lynley Rappaport at lrappaport@jri.org for more information or to schedule a training for your organization.

BEHAVIORAL RISK ASSESSMENT AND RISK REDUCTION: CORE STANDARDS AND PRACTICE

Workshop Audience:
Date: February 27, 2012 - February 28, 2012
Workshop Description:

This two-day training module serves as the second required module of the HIV Counseling and Testing, HIV Case Management, and Field Work trainings. It is also a prerequisite for Positive Prevention. This training provides participants with information and an opportunity to enhance skills in conducting a behavioral risk assessment within a harm reduction framework. This includes the goals, process, and core components of a behavioral risk assessment; an introduction to a brief behavioral and health risk assessment tool; how to develop risk reduction plans; and a demonstration of the active referral process for HIV, STIs, hepatitis, substance abuse, and mental health. 

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POSITIVE PREVENTION IN PRACTICE

Workshop Audience:
Date: March 6, 2012
Workshop Description:

This one-day training module serves as the third required module of the HIV Case Management training. It is also an independent module required for all other MDPH-funded service providers. It offers participants a working understanding of a positive prevention framework including core components, interventions, and practical applications across HIV service systems. Participants learn about the impact of stigma, disclosure issues, substance use, and other co-factors that impact on risk and overall health of people living with HIV/AIDS. Participants practice including positive prevention messaging into their service delivery modalities. 

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CONDUCTING EFFECTIVE FIELD WORK: FROM ENGAGEMENT TO ACTION

Workshop Audience:
Date: March 20, 2012 - March 22, 2012
Workshop Description:

This two-day module provides participants with strategies for developing and sustaining working relationships with members of priority populations and the communities in which field work takes place, practicing specific job-related skills such as recruiting clients for interventions, conducting risk assessments, distributing safety supplies, and making supported referrals. Participants will also explore ways in which to manage a variety of challenging situations that they may encounter while working in the field.

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HIV COUNSELING & TESTING: CORE STANDARDS AND PRACTICE

Workshop Audience:
Date: March 26, 2012 - March 27, 2012
Workshop Description:

This two-day training module serves as the third required module of the HIV Counseling and Testing training. Participants offering rapid testing training will be required to attend the additional half-day Rapid Testing module.This module provides participants with information about the Office of HIV/AIDS goals as well as expectations and requirements regarding the delivery of HIV counseling and testing services. This includes informed consent, testing options, pre- and post-test protocols, data requirements (limited discussion), and core counseling skills. 

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