PrEP Ready! Community of Practice

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Increasing HIV PrEP uptake in jurisdictions with the highest burden of HIV is an essential objective of Strategy 3 (Prevent) in the Ending the HIV Epidemics (EHE) Plan for America. The Pacific AIDS Education & Training Center (Pacific AETC) is funded by the Bureau of Primary Health Care to provide technical assistance and capacity building for FQHCs in the Pacific Region who receive Primary Care HIV Prevention awards as part of their Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Initiative.

Pacific AETC convenes a community of practice (CoP) called PrEP Ready! Community of Practice – a virtual quarterly gathering of FQHCs in EHE jurisdictions to expand and enhance their ability to offer culturally responsive, sex-positive, and gender-affirming PrEP services centered in health equity. PrEP Ready! CoP holds four sessions each fiscal year (July-June). Topics for each session are based on annual literature reviews conducted to assess the needs of EHE jurisdictions. Sessions is aimed towards the entire HIV PrEP healthcare team, including leaders and managers, outreach specialists, clinicians, health navigators, social workers, case managers, and pharmacists.

PrEP Ready! CoP sessions are structured to include a brief introduction ice breaker exercise and an interactive presentation from subject matter experts (60-80 min). Participants will then be introduced to a PrEP implementation organization worksheet based on the session topic designed to assist in the assessment and development of their PrEP programs, followed by a small group breakout peer discussion on the session topic (15-20 min), and ending in a report back of key takeaways from participants.

If you’re an FQHC who provides services to communities in an EHE jurisdiction in Arizona, California, or Nevada, and would like to participate in future PrEP Ready! CoP sessions, please email brian.abascal@ucsf.edu.

PrEP Ready! Organizational Worksheets

For each session topic, Pacific AETC creates an organizational worksheet for FQHCs. Each worksheet is a synthesis of the information, strategies, and best practices that were discussed by the subject matter experts presenting for the session, with sections for clinics to complete that will help them retain, plan, and implement that information into practice.  All our worksheets are available to the public.

Access the PrEP Ready! CoP Organizational Worksheets

Check out our PrEP Ready! CoP Archives

While PrEP Ready! CoP session are only open to FQHCs in EHE jurisdictions in the Pacific Region, we believe all healthcare organizations offering PrEP can find the materials developed useful.  Below is a list of past session with registration links to view the archived recordings, slides, PrEP implementation tools, and other materials developed for each session.

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How to pay for all of this: Reducing barriers to billing and insurance coverage for PrEP Services

April 13, 2022

Speaker: Denise Smith MRN, BSN, MPA
Constructing your HIV Prevention Package

June 2, 2022

Speakers: 

  • Glenn San Agustin, MD, AAHIVS, Associate Medical Director, HIV Medical Director
  • Raul Quintero, PrEP Navigator, JWCH Institute, Wesley Health Centers.
Building your Community’s HIV Prevention Capacity with a Health Equity Lens

June 14, 2022

Speakers: Members of the West Region CDC Capacity Building Assistance Providers from:

  • California Prevention Training Center
  • Denver Prevention Training Center
  • San Francisco Department of Public Health – Center for Learning and Innovation
Essential PrEP Screening Skills: Discussing Sex and Sexuality

September 7, 2022

Speaker: Felipe Flores, BS, Director, Community Health Worker, San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium
PrEP Outreach & Engagement Strategies

December 7, 2022

Panelists:

  • Leana M. Ramirez, PharmD, AAHIVP, CSP, Chief Clinical Officer, The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
  • Gavin Granitto, PrEP Navigation, Family Health Centers of San Diego, CA
  • Yugi Albior, Program Supervisor, TransVision, Bay Area Community Health, Fremont
  • Ty Gaffney-Smith, Out Here Sexual Health Clinic, APLA, Los Angeles, CA
Social Media & PrEP Outreach Strategies

March 7, 2023

Speakers:

  • Emmett Patterson, Associate Director, Building Healthy Online Communities
  • Herberth Osorio, MPH, HIV Program Administrator, Van Nuys Adult Health Center, Northeast Valley Health Corporation, Van Nuys, CA
  • Dino Selders & David Mosqueda, PrEP Navigators, AltaMed, Los Angeles and Orange Counties, CA
The other blue pill: PrEP & Aging

June 14, 2023

Featured Speaker: 

  • Jeffrey Kwong, DNP, MPH, AGPCNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN

Panelists:

  • Erica Conners, Associate Executive Director, WORLD
  • Lynnette Moore, Outreach and Education Specialist, WORLD
  • Robert Mitchell, Peer Advocate, Black Brothers Esteem, San Francisco AIDS Foundation
PrEP Billing and Coverage 201: Advanced strategies to pay for PrEP services

September 6, 2023

Speakers:

  • Edwin Corbin-Gutierrez, Senior Program Advisor, NASTAD
  • Christina Espegrin, MSPH, PrEP Assistance Program Specialist, Strategic Development Unit, ADAP, State Office of AIDS, CDPH
  • Gio Gonzalez, PrEP Navigator, One Community Health
  • Sergio Velasquez, Clinic Director, Out Here Sexual Health Center, APLA Health
Centering the Margins: Expanding PrEP access to communities that need it most

December 6, 2023

Speakers:

    • Jessica Bloome, MD, MPH, Deputy Director, San Francisco Department of Public health Capacity Building Assistance Program (getSFcba)
    • Nathan Gibson Health Programs Specialist, Public Health Institute at Denver Health
    • Aunsha Hall-Everett, EdD, MA, Capacity Building Assistance Manager, California Prevention Training Center (CAPTC)
    • Xavier Laporte-Sanchez BSN, MSCP, Director of HIV/STI Programs, St. John’s Community Health
PrEP is for Youth: Empowering youth to manage their sexual health

March 6, 2023

Speakers:

  • Geoff Hart-Cooper, MD, Director, Adolescent PrEP Program, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University.
  • Alexandria Trubatisky, MSN, FNP-C, Advance Practice Nurse Practitioner, Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Los Angele
  • Vihaan Madahar, Health Educator, Div. Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
PrEP and Beyond: 21st Century HIV Prevention

June 5, 2023

Speakers:

  • Christina M. Madison, PharmD, FCCP, AAHIVP
  • Yomi Obafemi, MD, MPH
Utilizing Pharmacists as Prescribers to Expand PrEP Access

October 9, 2024

Speakers:

  • Christina M. Madison, PharmD, FCCP, AAHIVP, Founder and CEO, The Public Health Pharmacist, PLLC
  • Leana Ramirez, PharmD, AAHIVP, CSP, Chief Clinical Officer, The Center, Las Vegas, NV
  • Jennifer Courtney, PharmD, BCACP, FCPhA, Pharmacy Manager Clinical Services, Pucci’s Pharmacy, Sacramento, CA
 

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