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HIV/STBBI Prevention and Care Training

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AIDS New Brunswick

Courses Offered:

  • HIV/HCV 101: Prevention, Testing, Transmission and Treatment

  • Harm Reduction in Principle and in Practice

  • Beyond the Stigma

Target Audience: organizations, community groups, schools, health and social service providers
Length: 1.5-2 hours in length

Fee: Free
Training can be adapted according to your group or organizations requirements

CRBC

Courses Offered:

  • Healthcare Professionals | Prescribing Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV

Format: Online module

Target Audience: Nova Scotia nurse practitioners and healthcare providers

Length: 2.5 hours

Certificate: Certificate upon completion

Credits: Mainpro+ credits

AIDS Committee of Newfoundland and Labrador

Courses Offered:

  • HIV/HCV 101 (testing, treatment, transmission, and prevention)

  • HIV/STBBI 101 (testing, treatment, transmission, and prevention)

  • Living Well: HIV & Aging

  • ACNL Programs & Services

  • Sexual Health & Harm Reduction (safer sex)

  • Criminalization of HIV in Canada (disclosure/non-disclosure laws)

Format: In-person, virtual, and hybrid options

Target Audience: Public health and healthcare workers, community-based workers and volunteers, service providers, students in Newfoundland and Labrador

Fee: Free

Must fill registration form and will be contacted with more information

Le Dispensaire
Centre de santé communautaire (CSA)

Courses Offered:

  • Les ITSS: Adapter Son Approche/ STBBIs: Adapting Your Approach

Target Audience: Health Professionals

Cost: Free
Contact for more info: info@dispensaire.org

Manitoba Harm Reduction Network

Courses Offered:

  • Drug Poisoning Prevention and Response Course

Format: Online or in-person (specific dates)

Length: Half-day

Target Audience: Service providers

Fee: Individual: $75 + GST, Organization: $1,000 + GST$1000 + GST

Portail VIH/SIDA du Québec

Courses Offered:

  • Module 1 - HIV-101: Transmission and treatments (Biological aspects)

  • Module 2 - HIV-102: Prevention Strategies (Biological Aspects)

  • Module 3 - HIV-201: Living with HIV (Psychosocial Aspects)

  • Module 4 - HIV-202: Realities of Aboriginal and Migrant Communities

Format: Online (zoom);
Target Audience: Everyone
Length: 2 hr 30 min per module (including break and questions period)

Cost: Free

Northreach (Fort McMurray & Grande Prairie)

Courses Offered:

  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)

  • Hepatitis C

  • Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI)

  • Harm Reduction

  • Gender Diversity

Tailored educational services to schools, businesses, and community groups

HIV Edmonton

Courses Offered:

  • HIV 101

  • HIV 101 for Youth

  • Viral Replication Cycle

  • HIV Treatment and Medications

  • HIV Transmission and New Prevention Technologies

Presentations and workshops service providers, health care providers, and workplaces

Safelink Alberta

Courses Offered:

  • HIV 101: Transmission, Prevention, and Treatment

  • HCV & STIs 101: The 411 on Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections

  • Harm Reduction 101: Sex, Drugs, and Human Rights

  • Substance Use 101: Substances, Safety, and Support

  • Sex Work Series: 101, 102, 103

  • Safer Sex Supplies 101: Know Before you Go

  • Safer Substance Use Practices 101: Safely Equip Before Taking a Hit

  • Universal Precautions 101: Best Practices in Protection Against Blood

  • Borne Pathogens

  • Harm Reduction and Youth

Format: Virtual (available across Alberta) or in-person (Medicine Hat or Calgary)

Target Audience: Social and health service providers, including caseworkers, nurses, outreach workers, shelter workers, addiction and treatment centre staff, and agency leadership

Length: Workshops range from 1-3 hours and are scheduled on specific dates and times

BCCDC & You Matter - Pathways to Care for STBBI

Courses Offered:

  • BCCDC STBBIs in Corrections (for Health Providers)

Format: Online course

Target Audience: Healthcare staff working in BC correctional facilities

Length: 1 hour

UBC CPD

Courses Offered:

  • HIV Testing in Primary Care

Format: Online, self-paced

Length: 1.5 hours

Target Audience: All health professionals

Credits: 1.5 Mainpro+ credits

BC Centre for Disease Control

Courses Offered:

  • STI Certified Practice Online Course

Format: 5 modules with an 18-hour STI clinical practice experience after completing the online component

Certificate: BCCNM STI certification

Target Audience: Nurses working in British Columbia

Aids Committee of Toronto (ACT)

Courses Offered:

  • Provide education, information and training to agencies in Toronto who work with women.

Rainbow Health Ontario

Courses Offered:

  • OHSUTP – Ontario HIV and Substance Use Training Program

offer in-house training, or support you to plan with other allied social services in your area

UBC CPD

Courses Offered:

  • Treatment as Empowerment: Advancing HIV Care with U=U /
    Le traitement comme pouvoir d’agir : l’avancement de la prise en charge du VIH avec I = I

Format: Online, self-paced

Length: 1.5 hours

Target Audience: All health professionals

Credits: 1.5 Mainpro+ credits

Language: Available in French

Government of Canada

Courses Offered:

  • Sexually Transmitted and Blood-borne Infections: Barriers to Screening

Format: Online self-paced

Length: 1.5 hours

Credits: Mainpro+ Credits

CATIE

Courses Offered:

  • HIV Prevention

  • HIV Treatment

  • Hepatitis C Treatment

  • HIV and Hepatitis C Testing

  • HIV Basics

  • Hepatitis C Basics

Format: Online courses (e-learning units, readings, videos, and discussion board assignments) with some live training by CATIE educators

Certificate: Certificate upon completion

PEERS Alliance

Courses Offered:

  • Hepatitis C & Our Communities

  • Other personalized workshops

Target Audience: Service providers

Fee: Small fee for workshops

Must contact xinfo@peersalliance.ca for more information

AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia (ACNS)

Courses Offered:

  • Topics such as HIV stigma reduction, harm reduction, and how to support clients with HIV/STBBIs

Target Audience: Community groups and healthcare professionals Format: Information sessions, training, and workshops

Scheduled upon request. 

For more information on workshops, resources, trainings and support, contact the Program Coordinator at 
902.425.4882, ext 226 or pc@acns.ns.ca.

MIELS-Quebec

Courses Offered:

  • Topics: HIV, sexual health, good referral practices, etc.

Target Audience: Health Professionals/future professionals

Length: 1-2 hours
Cost:
Free
Topics tailored depending on need and interest

Contact: professionnels@miels.org

DESIRS alliance

Courses Offered:

  • VHC 101 : Aspects biologiques, transmission et traitements

  • VHC 102 : Stratégies de prevention

  • VHC 201 : Réalités complexes

  • Niveau #4 – Immersion ITSS

  • Also offer training courses on topics related to hepatitis and STIs, upon request:

    • VHC 101 for people working in organizations providing services to seniors

    • Educational workshop on HCV transmission for older adults

Format: Online (zoom);
Target Audience: Frontline service providers, health, community and social services professionals working or likely to work with key populations.
Length: 2 hr per module

Cost: Free

Certificate: Certificate of participation for first 2, certificate of achievement in form of diploma if complete 4
Contact: administration@capahc.com

Government of Manitoba

Courses Offered:

  • STBBI Testing and Treatment for Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and Syphilis course

Format: Online
Target Audience: Registered nurses (RNs), registered psychiatric nurses (RPNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs)

Frequency: Course runs every 6-8 weeks

University of Saskatchewan

Courses Offered:

  • STBBI Treatment Education Program for Saskatchewan (STEPS)

Format: Virtual

Target Audience: Primary care physicians, specialist physicians, medical residents, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and pharmacists working in Saskatchewan (other healthcare professions are welcome to participate)

Length: 1-2 hour virtual classroom sessions

Fee: Free

Certificate: Accredited

Centre for Sexuality

Courses Offered:

  • Challenging Organizational Stigma: Sexual Health, Harm Reduction and STBBI-related Services Workshop

Format: In-person, online, and hybrid options

Target Audience: Health and social service providers working in the areas of substance use, STBBIs, sexuality, or sexual health

Fee: Contact for pricing

HIV Edmonton

Courses Offered:

  • Dynamics of HIV

Format: 2-day in person workshop

Target Audience: Service providers

Frequency: Offered 2-3 times a year and requires registration

British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

Courses Offered:

  • HIV Treatment and Management (12 lessons)

  • HIV Prevention (28 lessons)

  • Working Together: Interprofessional Care in HIV (16 lessons)

Format: Online

Target Audience: All healthcare professionals in the province of BC

Length: 15, 48, and 8 hours long respectively

Certificate: Certificate of completion

Credits: Mainpro+ certified credits

BCCDC & You Matter - Pathways to Care for STBBI

Courses Offered:

  • PHSA - BCCDC - Hepatitis C Course for Public Health Providers

Format: Online course

Target Audience: Public healthcare providers and nurses

Length: 3-4 hours

BC Centre for Disease Control

Courses Offered:

  • HIV Point of Care Testing Online Course

Format: 2 modules, self-directed online
Length: 70 minutes
Certificate: c Certificate of completion provided
Target Audience:
 Nurses, nurse practitioners, and physicians offering HIV tests to clients, as well as healthcare personnel or support individuals who discuss HIV, tests, and risks with clients

BC Centre for Disease Control

Courses Offered:

Format: 4 modules, self-directed online (4-5 hours); In-person option available

Certificate: Certificate of completion provided

Target Audience: Nurses working in British Columbia

HIV Resources Ontario

Courses Offered:

  • HIV Basics (Biomedical Focus

  • Introduction to HIV

  • Preventing the Sexual Transmission of HIV

  • Methamphetamine Webinar Part 1 & 2

  • Harm Reduction Equipment Webinars

  • What is Trauma Informed Care?

Format: Self-paced online course

Length: Varies, ranging from 2-8 hours per course

Certificate: Certificate of participation available for some courses; others available upon request

CBRC

Courses Offered:

  • Care in Action - HIV Prevention and HPV Awareness in Indigenous Communities

Format: Online, self-paced (2 courses)
Target Audience: Service Providers

Each course must be completed within 8 weeks

INHSU

Courses Offered:

  • Hepatitis C in Primary Care and Drug and Alcohol Settings Education Program

Format: Online, self-paced (4 modules covering HCV epidemiology and prevention, HCV testing and diagnosis, HCV treatment, ongoing monitoring)

Length: 1.5 hours

Certificate: CME accredited

Language: Available in English and French

Canadian Public Health Association

Courses Offered:

  • Exploring STBBIs and stigma: An introductory workshop for health and social service providers

  • Moving beyond the basics: An advanced workshop about sexual health, substance use, STBBIs and stigma

  • Challenging organizational stigma: Providing safer and more inclusive sexual health, harm reduction and STBBI-related services

  • Reducing stigma through trauma- and violence- informed care (TVIC)

Format: All workshops are online

Certificate: Certificate upon completion

Language: Most available in English and French

Prerequisites: Must complete online module "Facilitating adult learning: Addressing stigma related to STBBIs" before gaining access to workshops listed

TWIRI would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Land that is now referred to as Canada. Our central site where we live, work and love is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabek, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. We commit to working in partnership with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities, centering their voices and striving to decolonize our work.

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