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HIV Worker Onboarding Series

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Description:

Welcome to the Academy’s HIV worker onboarding series. This series will provide you with a baseline knowledge of essential information you need for your role as a HIV worker. You can use this series as an onboarding tool or refresher training. This training includes 8 hours of training material.

Learning Objectives:

  • Acquire baseline knowledge of essential information needed by HIV workers.
  • Develop baseline knowledge around understanding client needs and how to support clients compassionately. 
  • Increase knowledge of serving HIV clients.
  • Learn best practices to prevent HIV.

Instructions:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.”
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

LINCS HIV Infection and AIDS CDC Training

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Boots on the Ground Part 1: Foundational Epidemiology

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Integrating PrEP and PEP into Partner Services

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DoxyPEP STI Prevention

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Increasing HIV Prevention & Treatment in Black Communities

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Harm Reduction and Beyond

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Reducing Stigma Against People Who Use Drugs

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Staying Resilient and Delivering Patient Care

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STIs 101: What You Need to Know

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Learning objectives:

  1. Know more about common STDs
  2. Find out what happens when STDs are not treated and/or cured
  3. Learn what to do if someone thinks they may have a STD
  4. Learn how to help the community lower its risk for STDs

How to access the course:

Please click this link to start the STD 101: What You Need to Know course with CDC TRAIN. To view the content, you will first need to create an account on the CDC TRAIN website, or login if you already have an account. If you are creating an account for the first time with CDC TRAIN, you will be prompted to include the following information in your profile: name, zip code, phone number, address, professional role, and organization and workplace setting.

After creating your account with CDC TRAIN, revisit this link to start the STD 101: What You Need to Know course. You will then be directed to another website outside of CDC TRAIN, where you will create a profile to access the course.

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Sexual & Drug User Health Onboarding Series

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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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.”
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

Opioid Overdose Recognition and Response

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Reducing Stigma Against People Who Use Drugs

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Fentanyl Test Strip Video Demo

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Intramuscular Naloxone Video Demo

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Staying Resilient and Delivering Patient Care

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Harm Reduction and Beyond

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De-escalation and Conflict Management

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Holistically Whole — Trauma Informed Care

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Acknowledging Gender and Sex

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Adult Transgender Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility
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STIs 101: What You Need to Know

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DoxyPEP STI Prevention

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Sexual Health and Sex Positivity

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Intramuscular Naloxone Video Demo

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Watch this video for a step-to-step demonstration on how to use intramuscular naloxone.

Note: You must have cookies enabled on your browser in order to track your completion of the course and receive a certificate.

Fentanyl Test Strip Video Demo

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Watch this video for a step-to-step demonstration on how to use a fentanyl test strip to test drugs for the presence of fentanyl.

Note: You must have cookies enabled on your browser in order to track your completion of the course and receive a certificate.

Treatment Options for Substance Use Disorder

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Watch this video to learn about the range of substance use disorder treatment options in the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s system.

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Nasal Naloxone Spray Video Demo

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Watch this video for a step-by-step demonstration on how to use nasal naloxone for known or suspected opioid overdose.

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Opioid Overdose Recognition and Response 2023-2024

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This module provides a foundational understanding of how the body reacts to an overdose and how the naloxone nasal spray works to reverse a drug overdose to save someone’s life. By the end of the module, you will be able to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose using naloxone.

Learning Objectives

After completing the course on “Opioid Overdose Recognition and Response,” the learner will be able to:

  • Identify the drugs, and other risk factors, that can lead to overdoses.
  • Determine the type of drug overdoses that can be reversed by naloxone.
  • Recognize the signs of an opioid overdose.
  • Respond to an opioid overdose.
  • Administer naloxone.

Reducing Stigma Against People Who Use Drugs

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In this module, we will cover the basics of drug-related stigma, stigma’s effects on people who use drugs, and apply anti-stigma practices to strengthen relationships and engage people who use drugs.

Module 5: Infectiousness and Infection Control

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These educational modules are designed to provide basic information about tuberculosis (TB) in a self-study format for new TB Disease Intervention Specialists. After completion of this module, the staff will be able to:

  • Describe the factors that determine the infectiousness of a TB patient. 
  • Describe the main goals of a TB infection-control program. 
  • Describe the three levels of control measures that are the basis of an effective infection-control program. 
  • Describe the purpose and the characteristics of a TB airborne infection isolation room. 
  • Describe the circumstances when personal respirators should be used.

Instructions:

  1. Please review the PowerPoint presentation “Infectiousness and Infection Control.” You can find the PowerPoint embedded on the course homepage (see below).
  2. Complete the quiz with a passing grade of 70% or higher.

Deadline: The course should be completed within the first 6 months of employment.