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FORMAT AND CONTENT

• Workshop Goals
• Workshop Topics
• Sample Agenda
• Guidelines for Participant Recruitment
• Documents
• For Further Information

At the completion of the two-day workshop, participants will have:

• Increased their knowledge of the connection between substance abuse and infectious disease;
• Gained an understanding and an appreciation for the issues facing substance abuse treatment and prevention specialists and public health specialists;
• Identified the effects of substances on the body and brain of the user and how they relate to their roles as public health practitioners;
• Increased their knowledge of specific sexually transmitted and other infectious diseases and how they relate to their roles as substance abuse treatment and prevention counselors;
• Improved their skills in the areas of behavioral change and risk screening and assessment;
• Increased their knowledge and skills in the areas of collaboration, cultural awareness and appropriateness, capacity building, and communications;
• Developed strategies and mechanisms that will enable them to apply the knowledge, information, and skills gained in the training with their clients and colleagues; and
• Expanded their capacity for new and improved linkages and referral systems with other individuals and programs.

This two-day workshop will explore the following topics:

• The connection between substance abuse, mental health, and infectious diseases, in particular, HIV/AIDS, TB, STDs, and viral hepatitis;
• Updates on HIV/AIDS, other STDs, TB, and viral hepatitis, including current trends and new treatments (tailored to local environment);
• Updates of current trends in substance use and abuse (tailored to local environment);
• Substance abuse issues including an overview and history, addiction, screening and assessment, prevention and treatment (information delivered to public health, mental health and/or criminal justice staff);
• Infectious diseases issues including symptoms, prevention, and treatment (information delivered to substance abuse treatment/prevention, mental health and/or criminal justice staff);
• HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care;
• Developing effective approaches to ensuring cultural awareness and competency;
• A brief screening for substance abuse (skills practiced by public health, mental health, and/or criminal justice staff);
• A brief screening for STD/infectious diseases (skills practiced by substance abuse treatment and prevention, mental health, and/or criminal justice staff);
• Personalizing risk assessment and behavior change;
• Legal issues affecting confidentiality and collaboration;
• Issues ranging from cultural barriers to care, criminal justice, and establishing multi-disciplinary networks (tailored to local environment); and
• Strategy development and action planning to guide the systems-building effort.

For the exercises and work of this training to be effective, it is important to have a balanced mix of participants.

For a two-day Cross-Training event, the audience should be culturally diverse and blended according to goal. Participants should be recruited from the following:

• Substance abuse providers
• Ryan White program staff
• Public health prevention staff
• Case managers
• Supervisors
• Physicians and nurses
• Criminal justice staff
• Mental health staff

• Planning Guide
• Facilitator's Manual Day One and Day Two
• Supporting Transparencies
• Supporting Handouts
• Participant's Manual Day One and Day Two
• Supporting Transparencies
• Supporting Handouts
• Evaluation Tools

To request a program information kit including a training request form or to obtain more information about previous and upcoming trainings, please e-mail Cross-Training Initiative or call 703-448-4415, Ext. 272.

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