Training

Motivational Interviewing for Disease Intervention Providers

Motivational Interviewing can be helpful in moving people to make healthier decisions and overcoming barriers to change. This course will provide disease intervention providers with an opportunity to recognize ambivalence around adopting safer health practices and offer some strategies, tools and techniques that can be used to support people in making healthier decisions for improved wellness.

Demystifying Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity for Disease Intervention Providers

This course is intended to increase your confidence and ability to incorporate sexual orientation and gender identity language, creating a safer and more inclusive dialogue with the people you serve.

Disclosure of STI/HIV Within the Context of Self-Referral of Partners

This course will provide a skill-building opportunity to assist Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) in supporting people diagnosed with an STI/HIV who want to share their health status with their sex/needle-sharing partners and social contacts and inform them of their exposure to infection so they can seek testing and treatment services.

STI/HIV Interview Series: The Anatomy of Problem Solving During STI/HIV Interviews

This course will introduce you to problem solving models to strengthen your problem-solving skills when interacting with those you serve. Throughout this course, you will have opportunities to strengthen your confidence level to problem solve by applying various problem-solving models to motivate others to take-action. You will learn how to apply the Assertiveness Model, LOVER Model, and CHART while participating in instructor demonstrations,case scenarios, and roleplays. Please be prepared to stay for the entire program to receive a certificate of completion. Role-play as a skill-building strategy is utilized and required of all who attend, and this course is intended for disease intervention professionals and other disease intervention providers.

STI/HIV Interview Series: Sexual/Drug Sharing Partner & Social Network Contact Elicitation: A Deeper Dive

Participants will learn what social-sexual networks are, discuss disease transmission within a network, and explore a framework for contact elicitation. Using case-studies, participants will have an opportunity to practice developing questions they will ask to support elicitation of people who could benefit from testing and treatment services.

STI/HIV Interview Series: Social and Medical History Taking: The Why Behind the What

This course will focus on the social and medical history taking process when working with people diagnosed with an STI/HIV, and with people who have been exposed to STI/HIV. Discussion of what questions are pertinent to ask and why, and modeling of sample language for use when people seem hesitant to provide sensitive information will explored.

STI/HIV Interview Series: Overview of STI/HIV Interviewing

In this course, you will be introduced to CDCs new STI/HIV Interview format with an emphasis on the introduction component. You will learn new concepts associated with interviewing people diagnosed with an STI or HIV and participate in activities that promote critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Throughout this course, you will develop an effective introduction statement, calculate a person’s interview period, and respond to reactions from people being interviewed.

Self-Care for Disease Intervention Providers

This course will examine unique stressors that impact the work of disease intervention professionals. We will focus on the consideration of tools, recommendations, and successful self-care strategies for Disease Intervention Providers to decrease stress and prevent burnout.

Strengthening Cultural Humility Awareness When Working with Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM)

This course is intended for Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) who are working with populations of men who have sex with men (MSM) and who are interested in exploring and learning how DIS and provider values and stigma can impact HIV care for the MSM community.

Maintaining Personal Safety During Field Notifications

This course is a proactive response to the increasing potential for incidents of violence and threats of injury for Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) who conduct in-person partner notification services, outreach, and other public health-related activities in the field and communities they serve.

Cultural Humility: An Approach to Working with People Who Use Drugs

This collaborative will address the three principles of cultural humility,motivational interviewing, and person-focused Harm Reduction. Participants will apply these concepts to case scenarios to develop appropriate strategies and referral options for PWUD.

Join us for a series of interactive training to build skills and learn from your colleagues!

2023 Disease Intervention Schedule