Trainings

Governance refers to board-level oversight and decision-making related to strategic direction, financial planning, and bylaws. This includes policies that outline the organization’s purpose, values, and structure. Trainings in this category will help organizations strengthen their systems of governance and leadership.

Trainings in this category will help organizations set priorities, focus staff energy and resources toward those priorities, and strengthen operations. These trainings will also help organizations ensure alignment between employee and stakeholder efforts, establish or adjust common goals and agreements, and develop plans to achieve intended outcomes.

Fiscal accountability is the key to maintaining a healthy non-profit organization. Trainings in this category will help organizations set financial goals, establish management systems, ensure policies and operational procedures are set in place and up-to-date, and ensure staff are trained and able to make prudent financial decisions.

Organizations that rely on only one or two funding sources run the risk of losing funding in times of political, community and financial uncertainty and/or change. Diversification of resources prepares organizations to incorporate multiple streams of income or multiple suppliers within a funding category to help stabilize financial resources. Focus areas include grant management, grant writing, donor management, and stakeholder engagement. Areas of special interest include 340B and insurance reimbursements.

Developing partnerships and coalitions among organizations with similar goals is a key strategy used to enhance the reach of community efforts. Trainings will focus on leveraging the skills, strengths, and resources of each partner to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the combined effort by minimizing duplication and redundancy. Areas of focus include public relations, coalition building, and partnership development.

A solid communications strategy helps to engage stakeholders in the work of an organization, inspires them to donate to the cause and keeps them invested. Both internal and external stakeholders benefit when the intended message for the organization is clear and to the point – allowing everyone to accurately represent the agency’s focus and share its successes.

Documented, learned, and enforced internal management policies and procedures in an organization provides an environment in which managers and staff can maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations. They are also a mechanism to monitor the achievement of operational goals and objectives. Focus areas for these trainings include human resource management, IT and facility management and planning, and volunteer and staff development and management.

Trainings that support organizations’ development, implementation and analysis of service delivery systems. Focus areas include program evaluation, quality assurance, assessment, and innovation.

Scholarship deadline: Sunday, November 10, 2024, at 11:59 pm CST

Healing-Centered and Anti-Oppressive Leadership: Cultivating the Next Generation of Emerging HIV Leaders

Scholarship Details:

The SUSTAIN Wellbeing COMPASS Coordinating Center is excited to announce the launch of our second continuing education opportunity for case managers, service linkage workers, and those in similar roles who provide services to people living with or impacted by HIV in Georgia.  The 2-day in-person training on Trauma-informed Case Management will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday, February 11, and Wednesday, February 13, 2025, from 9 am to 6 pm. Twenty selected participants will receive $1,000 to cover travel costs to and from the training (flight, hotel, food, Uber, and any other costs associated with the travel to and from training) and compensation for their time. The SUSTAIN Center will provide breakfast, snacks, and lunch on both days.

For questions, assistance, and accommodations, contact Lladira Aguilar at laguila9@central.uh.edu and Alejandra Avilés (aaviles3@central.uh.edu).

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This training will explore how hard reduction philosophies and principles can be embodied across communities and services to create a culture of safety that also challenges stigma and discrimination faced by people who use drugs.

Provided in partnership with the Harm Reduction Coalition.

This training defines mental health and addresses its intersection with HIV as well as how mental health play out in the lives of people living with HIV.

Provided in partnership with The BACH Group.

Designed to give staff and community-based organizations a broad overview of mental health diagnosis, therapy, as well as basic counseling skills and tools to support mental health counselors, and address mental health stigma.

Provided in partnership with BEAM.

This training aims to help organizations develop trauma-informed environments and practices by utilizing SAMHSA’s six key principles of trauma-informed approaches. The training provides an introduction to trauma and trauma-informed approaches to care, and tailored to support people living with HIV.

Provided in partnership with the Ribbon Consulting Group.

This training will increase the capacity of participants to effectively leverage their personal and professional experiences to engage government leaders in policy and advocacy efforts related to scaling up progressive wellness, trauma-informed care, substance abuse, and mental health policies in their communities.

Provided in partnership with the Black Futurist Group.

This training is designed to give corporations and collectives the skills to 1) Cultivate and employ shared language and frameworks when addressing bias and issues of difference, 2) Review, assess, and tailor communication styles to more effectively support wellbeing and a culture of diversity, and 3) Implement successful conflict resolution policies and active listening practices that cultivate compassion and ongoing learning as it relates to race, gender identity, and sexuality.

Provided in partnership with BEAM.

This training aims to increase participant awareness of systems of oppression that impact individuals and provision of services, as well as identify best practices for working with gender and sexually diverse young people.

Provided in partnership with Micky Bradford.

The FRESH (Finding Respect and Ending Stigma around HIV) Workshop aims to define stigma as well as facilitate discussion around understanding the diverse forms of stigma and how it presents in organizational settings. Additionally, the workshop seeks to examine the drivers of stigma, generate a personalized understanding of stigma, and to assist in the understanding of the adverse effects of stigma at the personal, interpersonal, and institutional levels.

“Identity, Dynamics and Strategies”: This training will develop participant skills to deliver client-centered services with cultural competence and humility in order to support access to and continuous engagement in HIV prevention and care services.