Disease Prevention Education (includes HIV/AIDS Education)
Release of the New Culturally Specific HIV Education and Prevention Instructor Courses
The team in the Disease Prevention Education (DPE) division at national headquarters is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of the new African American and Hispanic HIV Education and Prevention Instructor Courses. Based upon chapter and collaborator feedback, the new streamlined courses were designed to maximize course content and training efficiencies while reducing course duration and maintaining course quality. The new courses effectively integrate the existing culturally specific HIV/AIDS Fundamentals content with newly developed prevention skills content and activities.
The instructor-training pathway has also been streamlined and the new training track follows a simple and convenient three-step process.
- Fundamentals of Instructor Training
- Starter Facts (or the optional Facts Test)
- HIV Education and Prevention Instructors Course
The content from the American Red Cross Facts Practice course has been integrated into the new streamlined courses thereby eliminating it as an instructor course prerequisite. The Facts Practice course remains available as a separate training that chapters can offer to customers who seek to develop skills communicating HIV/AIDS facts in non-judgmental ways, however, are not interested in or available for instructor training.
The New African American HIV Education and Prevention Instructor Course, like its predecessor, African American HIV/AIDS Program: Fundamentals instructor course, continues to support the mission related work of American Red Cross by addressing public health concerns for African American communities in the area of HIV prevention.
In keeping with the notion of cultural specificity, it is designed by African Americans for African Americans and addresses the need for culturally appropriate HIV/AIDS education and the building of critical skill steps towards preventing the spread of HIV. The new materials also bring to the African American HIV/AIDS Program added educational strategies that can be used to further prepare African American HIV/AIDS instructors to more effectively facilitate community sessions using skills-building modules and activities to encourage and support prevention behaviors.
The course will train instructors to deliver culturally sensitive and culturally specific HIV education and prevention. Instructors will facilitate community sessions designed to help participants build skills such as: decision-making, problem solving, negotiation and refusal skills through a series of activities that include role play, task group, brainstorming, practice and demonstration.
Materials for the new course include the following:
- African American HIV/AIDS Program: HIV Education and Prevention Guide for Training Instructors
- African American HIV/AIDS Program: Instructor Skills Demonstration Video
- African American HIV/AIDS Program: HIV Education and Prevention Instructors Manual
- African American HIV/AIDS Program: Instructor Candidate Workbook
- African American HIV/AIDS Program: Building HIV Prevention Skills in African American Communities (Dono Ntoaso)
Other items that were previously a part of the African American HIV/AIDS Program will remain the same, such as: Proverb Posters, Note Cards, Don't Forget Sherrie Workbook and Leader's Guide and video; The Dono Ntawaso "Talking Drums" Workbook and Leader's Guide, wallet and key cards, and program luggage tags and t-shirts. The Card Game set used by instructor trainers during the course, will also remain the same.
The American Red Cross African American HIV Education and Prevention instructor's course continues to provide the dual certification option previously established between the African American HIV/AIDS and Basic HIV/AIDS programs.
The New Hispanic HIV Education and Prevention Instructor Course, again like its predecessor, Hispanic HIV/AIDS Program: Fundamentals instructor's course, continues to support the mission related work of American Red Cross by addressing public health concerns for Hispanic/ Latino communities in the area of HIV prevention.
In keeping with the notion of cultural specificity, it is designed by Hispanics for Hispanics and addresses the needs for culturally-appropriate HIV/AIDS education and the building of critical skill steps towards preventing the spread of HIV. The new materials also bring to the Hispanic HIV/AIDS Program added facilitation strategies such as role-play, task group, demonstration, and practice that can be used to further prepare Hispanic HIV/AIDS instructors to conduct more effective pláticas (community sessions). There are two types of community sessions to select from, that is, an initial or follow-up discussion-based plática and an activity-based plática. An initial or follow-up discussion-based plática focuses on sharing basic HIV/AIDS facts, thus bringing awareness and knowledge, and personalizing these facts with the participants. A follow-up activity-based plática then emphasizes specific individual and community skill development, including practicing putting on a latex condom and taking it off, effective communication, negotiation, decision-making, and community mobilization. Combined discussion and activity-based pláticas bring forth a myriad of positive outcomes by decreasing participants' vulnerability and bolstering their assertiveness by not only personalizing HIV facts but also practicing new individual and community skills and thus reducing the spread of HIV.
Materials for the new course will be comprised of the following:
- Hispanic HIV/AIDS Program: HIV Education and Prevention Guide for Training Instructors (Spanish and English)
Guía de la Cruz Roja Americana para capacitar a instructors hispanos sobre educación prevención del VIH;
- Hispanic HIV Education and Prevention Instructor Skills Demonstration video (Spanish with English subtitles)
Destrezas modelo del instructor hispano de educación y prevención del VIH;
- Hispanic HIV/AIDS Program: HIV Education and Prevention Instructor's Manual (Spanish and English)
Munual de la Cruz Roja Americana del instructor hispano sobre educación y prevención del VIH;
- Hispanic HIV/AIDS Program: Instructor Candidate Workbook (Spanish and English)
Cuaderno de trabajo de la Cruz Roja Americana para el candidato a instructor hispano sobre educación y prevención del VIH; and
- The Renters/Los inquilinos (community-level video, Spanish with English subtitles)
- Decision-making Steps/Pasos en la toma de decisiones poster
- Other support materials that were previously a part of the Hispanic HIV/AIDS Program such as the Talking Posters, My Brother/Mi hermano video, and the Family Guide for HIV/AIDS Prevention/Guía familiar para la prevención del VIH/SIDA will be reemphasized in both discussion and activity-based pláticas.
Preparing for the Release of the New Culturally Specific Instructor Courses:
The team in DPE at national headquarters has developed strategies to assist chapters in retaining and updating their existing instructor trainers and instructors (Retention Plan). Our FY03 CDC Plan includes several opportunities in the Retention Plan to provide chapters with training and resources to accomplish this objective. These will include:
- Instructor Trainer (IT) Training opportunities: IT update workshops are planned to update instructor trainers in the new African American and Hispanic HIV Education and Prevention instructor courses. These will be scheduled throughout the fall 2002. Please continue to look on CrossNet for these opportunities.
- Financial Resources for updating instructors. Information regarding these and other financial resources will be made available in August. Contact your local chapter for more information.
Please contact the program coordinators if you would like more information or if you have comments or questions:
More information on Community Level HIV/AIDS Prevention Skills Materials for African American and Hispanic HIV/AIDS Programs.
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