Training and Technical Assistance Opportunities
Webinar - HIV Prevention to Youth 2.0
March 9, 2010
Originally presented at the United States Conference on AIDS in October 2009 entitled, "HIV Prevention to Youth, 2.0," NYAC will be making an abridged encore presentation. Since it was such a hit, we want to make this training available to our partners across the country who might have missed it! This webinar will also be a great way to learn how NYAC can begin to give tailored assistance to your organization in using social media outreach strategies!
Here is the original abstract for the training given on October 29,2009 at the United States Conference on AIDS in San Francisco, California.
HIV continues to disproportionately affect LGBTQ youth, especially among communities of color. But are your prevention efforts meeting the needs of young people and taking advantage of the many ways that youth communicate, socialize and network? This institute will explore savvy technological strategies to enhance HIV prevention efforts among youth, ages 13-24. From social networking websites to text messages, this interactive institute will look at best practices for reaching youth with the tools they already use on a daily basis. Community-based organizations will learn how to leverage their resources and better outreach to youth utilizing cost effective online strategies.
For a peek at the resources shared in this webinar, please click here.
National HIV Best Practices Summit
May 11 - 14, 2010
Washington, DC
The National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC) is convening a national summit for HIV/AIDS and youth service program managers who are currently working with youth of color and/or LGBTQ youth to share best practices with colleagues and be trained in using NYAC’s You Know Different social marketing campaign. At this Summit, NYAC hopes to achieve the following:
1) Best practice sharing and national HIV service provider networking: Allow 10 organizational representatives doing similar work to from across the country share their successes and problem solve challenges in HIV prevention and outreach to LGBTQ youth of color
2) Build a cohort of agencies utilizing You Know Different: All participants will be trained in social marketing and specifically, the You Know Different social marketing campaign created by NYAC.
Participants can look forward to receiving training on social marketing as an outreach tool, using social networks to recruit peers for HIV testing and best practices in program design for LGBTQ youth of color. This summit is designed as a capacity-building, professional development, and deep networking opportunity for program managers and supervisors who serve LGBTQ youth of color in HIV prevention and related fields.
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