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# CARE MANAGEMENT
The goal of the Care Management is to ensure effective and efficient access to care, services, and resources that are appropriate to meet the needs of women and girls living with HIV/AIDS and their families. The aim is to provide compassionate, empowering, and non-judgmental family care and support services in a culturally appropriate context. Women, girls, and families are experts in identifying their own needs, therefore care services must be flexible enough to address the distinct needs of each individual woman, girl and family. Ultimately, we seek to increase women’s sense of self worth and support women in sustaining their care and treatment. Women often receive services in a variety of ways and settings. Staff is trained in client-centered advocacy and work diligently to ensure women are served in a timely, respectful, and culturally appropriate method by the agency and by our collaborative partners. We aim to empower women to be strong advocates for themselves, their families, and other women within the care system. If you are a woman living with HIV/AIDS and need assistance please contact us – we are here to support you.
## **Medical Case Management**
Our medical case management program targets all women, particularly women of color living with HIV/AIDS, ages 18+, residing the DC metropolitan area, including sections of Maryland and Virginia. We provide referrals to doctors and support services to meet individual and family needs.
## **Prevention with Positives**
Our prevention program offers women HIV and hepatitis C screening services. Our mobile van helps alleviate transportation barriers. Education outreach focuses on preventing transmission and getting treatment.
## **Community Health Workers**
Our community health workers practice compassionate peer support. They work to connect women and families to medical care and safety net services in the DC metropolitan area, including sections of Maryland and Virginia.
## **Early Intervention Specialist**
Our early intervention specialists create campaigns aimed at prevention, early intervention, and access to treatment. We offer tools (such as pamphlets, females and male condoms, finger cots) and referrals for obtaining PrEP to prevent HIV transmission.
## **HRSA Celebrates the 32nd Anniversary of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program**
Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. In 1990, Congress enacted the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act—the legislation that created the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. The Program was named after Indiana teen and AIDS advocate, Ryan White, who lost his life to AIDS in April 1990, four months before Congress passed the CARE Act. It was designed to improve the quality and availability of HIV care and treatment for low-income people with HIV.
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## **Support Groups**
Our mission to support women was founded 30 years ago with a simple telephone support line for women with HIV/AIDS. Today, we continue to offer women support groups and a safe place to gather in a caring environment.
## **Referrals & Support Services**
Our in-house services include a mental health provider, testing, coaching for treatment adherence, and case management services. Our referral programs connect women with medical care, food pantries, housing assistance, and more. We offer hot meals, a drop-in resource center with computers, clothing, special events, and holiday celebrations for our women and their families.
## **Act now- you dont want to miss out on this opportunity!**
Howard University is pleased to offer an exciting program for young adults (Age 18-29) living with HIV in the USA Mid-Atlantic Region﻿!
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## MEET SABRINA
#### **Advocate in the Community**
#### **Early Invention Specialist at the Women's Collective**
18 years with organization
#### **Professional**
#### **Customer**
Passionate and Dedicated
#### **Chicago**
#### **Native**
Hobbies: community service and sewing
1818 New York Ave NE, Suite 229,
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 483-7003
info@womenscollective.org
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# PREVENTION
The Women’s Collective is focused on HIV prevention and promoting resiliency among women and girls. Should a positive HIV result arise, we offer a continuum of care and referrals to ensure optimal medical treatment and care retention. We believe that HIV testing empowers women and girls to protect themselves, to educate their partners, and to plan for healthy families. If you are seeking information, HIV testing resources, or you wish to learn more about how to protect yourself, or educate your community, please contact us.
## **HIV Prevention Care Continuum**
Our prevention program focuses on early identification of HIV setting in motion effective access to care. We offer support from community health workers who use a comprehensive service model of medical case management (MCM), treatment adherence support, peer-based mentoring, and support groups.
## **Test & Link to Care Services**
We encourage all women and girls ages 13 and above to know their HIV status by offering women-centered HIV/Hep C testing, HIV education, a variety of safer sex tools and resources. Our Test & Link to care services is a collection of robust services, that includes; comprehensive discussions with customers at greatest risk for contracting HIV, navigation to medical and support services for those who receives a positive test result, navigation to PrEP and PEP providers, and promotion of continual engagement in adherence to PrEP and PEP care, treatment and education. TWC have been serving our community for over two decades.
## **Youth Prevention Program**
We encourage all women and girls ages 13 and older to learn about HIV and to get tested for HIV and STIs, particularly if they are sexually active. Our prevention program includes outreach and testing for HIV, hepatitis C, referrals for STI testing, and condom distribution. We also refer for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP).
## **Education and Awareness**
We provide education and awareness activities designed to support girls, women, and families. We teach women about PrEp for prevention (it’s 99% effective at preventing HIV when taken correctly) and PEP for post-exposure. We are a Female Condom Center of Excellence (FCCoE), providing female condom workshops and training.
## **Ending HIV-Related Stigma in the Southern United States: Gina’s Story**
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## **BREAKING NEWS! Reps. Johnson, Meng & Lee Push to Recognize Sept. 9 as National African Immigrant & Refugee HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis Awareness (NAIRHHA) Day**
## **Clinicians’ Quick Guide:**
Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection in the United States – 2021 Update – A Clinical Practice Guideline
## **For those with HIV or weak immune systems, monkeypox can be fatal -U.S. study**
People with severely weakened immune systems, such as those infected with HIV, can experience severe symptoms and even die from a monkeypox infection
## **Female Condom Center of Excellence (FCCoE)**
TWC is a Female Condom Center of Excellence (FCCoE) that provides female condom or FC2 “train-the-trainer” workshops. For more information about this program, please contact us.
One of our main goals is to identify HIV-positive women and girls as early as possible and to move them into high quality care as quickly as possible. We pride ourselves on delivering compassionate, holistic support in a culturally sensitive manner.
## **National HIV Testing Day is June 27**
June 27 is National HIV Testing Day (NHTD), a day to emphasize the importance of HIV testing and make sure everyone knows their status so they can take steps to improve their health, regardless of the result. The 2022 NHTD theme, HIV Testing is Self-Care, encourages people to include HIV testing as part of their self-care routine. The World Health Organization defines self-care as “the ability of individuals, families, and communities to promote health, prevent disease, maintain health, and to cope with illness and disability with or without the support of a health care provider.” Self-care has been an important topic during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the need for individual and community actions to promote physical and mental health remain a high priority. More info: National HIV Testing Day (NHTD)
## **Prevent Opioid Overdose with Naloxone**
Clinicians play an important role in raising awareness about naloxone, a medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose when given in time. Learn how to talk with patients about naloxone and reduce their risk of opioid overdose. Earn free CE.
## **We’ve been on the frontlines for HIV/AIDS. Here’s How to fight Monkeypox.**
## **INVISIBLE PEOPLE**
A RETROSPECTIVE REPORT ON THE IMPACTS OF COVID & HIV IN THE UNITED STATES
## **Charlene, stigma is preventing us from ending AIDS for all**
Shaming words such as ‘druggie’, ‘crackhead’, and ‘junkie’ overlook a person’s humanity and strip people of their dignity. But labels are just one of the many ways that people who use drugs experience stigma.
# H.E.R.
The Women’s Collective developed the H.E.R. (Help + Empowerment + Resources) program to reduce the number of HIV transmissions in high-risk communities of Washington DC Wards 5, 7, 8 and Prince George’s County, Maryland. Our work will continue as long as HIV continues.
## **H = Help**
For the past 30 years the mission of The Women’s Collective has been to provide help to women with HIV and their families living with or at risk for HIV and Hepatitis C. We grew from a single phone line to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and in the process, we expanded our mission to HIV prevention, care, and support services. We offer peer-to-peer support, education, screening, HIV prevention and treatment counseling, referrals, and support groups, among other services.
## **E = Empowerment**
Empowerment is best way to prevent HIV and Hepatitis C, and to encourage HIV-positive women and their loved ones to seek treatment. We work to provide culturally competent, woman-centered resources focused on helping women and girls to recognize their own strength. We assist them with daily challenges, while supporting them at every stage. The H.E.R. experience is a rare sisterhood and kinship that promotes a safe space to navigate HIV prevention and treatment for anyone who self identifies as a woman.
## **R = Resources**
Women and girls learn that they are not alone on this journey. The H.E.R. program provides outreach services and resources that enable women and girls to take charge of their lives and health. We believe that on-going support increases prevention, adherence to medications and care plans, offers psycho-social support to women and families, and provides a vital link to basic needs. Situations change and we are here to meet all the unexpected issues that arise.
The Women’s Collective developed the H.E.R. (Help + Empowerment + Resources) program to reduce the number of HIV transmissions. Our mission is to impact communities at highest risk. Please contact us if you feel your community (in the DC metropolitan area) could benefit from H.E.R.
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