Community Health

Healthcare for People Experiencing Homelessness: Barriers and Strategies That Work (2024-2025)

10/16/2024/in Community Health, Harm Reduction, Harm Reduction Training Institute (HRTI), Programs, Recorded Webinar /by Amy Lee

April 2, 2024 9-10:30AM

Training Overview:

People experiencing homelessness suffer illness and premature death at rates much higher than the general population. Black / African American people are severely over-represented among people experiencing homelessness nationally and particularly in San Francisco. This webinar will address the causes of these disparities and strategies for mitigating their adverse effects.

At the conclusion of this training, participants should be able to:

identify at least 3 barriers to healthcare for people experiencing homelessness relevant to their work setting.
address the health effects of intersecting disability, disadvantage and discrimination on people experiencing homelessness.
identify 3 strategies relevant to their work setting for improving healthcare access and reducing healthcare disparities for people experiencing homelessness.

About the Trainer:

Barry Zevin, MD is Medical Director of Whole Person Integrated Care: Street Medicine, Shelter Health and Maria X Martinez Health Resource Center for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. He has 32 years of experience as a physician delivering healthcare to people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. Dr. Zevin has provided leadership for many innovative SFDPH projects including the current low barrier buprenorphine project to improve access to treatment for addiction disorders for individuals experiencing homelessness.

Instructions:

Watch all four video segments. You will not be able to progress through the course until you’ve completed each segment. For closed captions, go to the lower right hand corner of the video screen and click on the three vertical dots. Click on closed captions to turn English captions on. Enable cookies on your computer to save your progress.
Complete the evaluation.
Pass the quiz.
You will find a certificate of completion on your learning dashboard.
If you are requesting CEs, CE certificates will be sent separately.
A copy of the powerpoint slides and a list of references can be downloaded from the Resources section, under Course Tools, on the menu on the right.

As of June 19, 2024, we are no longer providing CEs for taking this course. Everyone who has requested CEs for this course prior to June 19th should’ve received their CE certificates by email.

Attending one of these trainings fulfills the annual harm reduction training contract requirement, which is part of the SFDPH Declaration of Compliance for SFDPH systems of care and funded agencies that provide direct service to clients.

Equity Statement

The San Francisco Department of Public Health is committed to leading with race and prioritizing Intersectionality, including sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, class, nationality, language, and ability. SFDPH strives to move forward on the continuum of becoming an anti-racist institution through dismantling racism, building, building solidarity among racial groups, and working towards becoming a Trauma-Informed/Trauma Healing Organization in partnership with staff, clients, communities, and our contractors. When attending, SFDP trainings, events, and/or meetings, we uphold expectations and standards of rules of engagement for our employees and contractors. We expect that all participants operate in professional integrity and adhere to the DPH Employee Code of Conduct or their employee conduct. Participants will be accountable for upholding any group agreements provided by the trainer or host and uphold principles of transparency, confidentiality and respect. We support respectful participation across intersecting identities and experiences including race, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, class, nationality, religion, language, physical and mental ability, and political ideology. While we strive to make an space of inclusivity, belonging, and hub for various perspective, we do not tolerate any inappropriate behavior or comments rooted in anti-blackness, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, sexism, or any comments or behavior that is discriminatory, disruptive, or divisive. If participants cannot abide by these expectations, they will be removed from the training or event and will not be allowed to attend any additional DPH trainings, event, and/or meetings. Trainers have been informed to notify DPH of any misconduct and a DPH representative will follow up with that employee’s supervisor or participant’s agency regarding the misconduct.

Sexual & Drug User Health Onboarding Series

03/28/2024/in Communicable Diseases, Community Health, Harm Reduction, HIV/STIs, Online self-paced, The Academy /by Amy Lee

Description:

Welcome to the Academy’s Sexual & Drug User Health onboarding series. This series will provide you with a baseline knowledge of essential information that will support you in your role as a new worker. You can use this series as an onboarding tool or refresher training. This training includes 8.5 hours of training material.

An HCV and HIV onboarding worker series will be coming soon.

Learning Objectives:

Provide a baseline knowledge of essential information that will support you in your role working with clients.
Develop baseline knowledge around understanding client needs and how to support clients compassionately.
Increase knowledge of stigma and harm reduction principles
Develop workers’ self-care practices

Instructions:

Complete the self-paced training series by clicking on the “enter” button for each course. After you complete each course, you will see the updated status on your learner dashboard. Make sure you have your cookies enabled on your computer in order to track your completion status.
Once you have completed your onboarding or refresher training, go to your learner dashboard. In the completed courses section, enter a date range and click on “print transcript.”
Save your transcript as a pdf and upload it to the Training Record Upload tab found at the bottom of this page. If you have already completed any of the following courses, you do not have to retake the training. Your completion should already be recorded on your transcript. Just make sure that the date range you choose include the dates when you have completed the course.
On completion of the series and submission of transcript record, a course administrator will review your record. Once approved by the administrator, you will receive a certificate of knowledge in the role.

Onboarding Training Depot

07/10/2023/in Communicable Diseases, Community Health, Community Health Leadership Initiative (CHLI), Counseling Skills, Emergency Preparedness, Epidemiology, Equity & Inclusion, Harm Reduction, HIV/STIs, Linkage, Integration, Navigation, and Comprehensive Services (LINCS), Online self-paced, Programs, Reserve for Accelerated Disease Response (RADR), Subject, The Academy, Trauma-Informed Care, Type /by Michela Shako

Welcome to the RADR Fundamentals Training Depot, where you can find resources to support onboarding and refresher training for Public Health and DIS Fundamentals and other support for training and navigating our public health system.

If you would like a record of your learning progress in this course, here’s what you need to know:

Once you have completed your onboarding or refresher training, you can upload an image of your completed certificates, screen shots, and learning to the Training Record Upload tab lesson found at the end. Additional instructions can be found within the lessons.

Sexual Health & Sex Positivity Workshop

07/25/2022/in Community Health, Community Health Leadership Initiative (CHLI), Counseling Skills, Equity & Inclusion, Harm Reduction, Recorded Webinar, The Academy /by Amy Lee

Facilitator: Joshua Oneal

In this workshop participants will explore sexual health topics through the lens of sex positivity and harm reduction. Participants in this workshop will define sexual health and unpack how their own relationship with sex and sexuality impacts their ability to connect with and support others. In addition we will discuss sexual health disparities and best practices in combating these disparities through counseling, education and prevention efforts.