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Case Management Services for Transgender Youth & Young Adults - Earline Budd |
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HIV/AIDS Risk Factors Among Transgender People in the U.S. - Jessica Xavier
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Jessica Xavier, MPH
Virginia Transgender Health Initiative Study, Virginia
Social context and
co-factors leading to HIV risk:
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HIV prevalence rates (needs assessment overview)
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Co-factors driving risk behaviors (homelessness, lack of employment, kicked out
of family home or school, etc.)
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HIV and STI risks (sex work, exchanging sex for resources, unprotected sex,
injection risks, etc.)
JoAnne Keatley, MSW, Program Manager
Correctional Medicine Consultation Network, San Francisco
Case management and care
management for TG youth:
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Barriers to care
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Working with TG clients
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Effective referral techniques
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Prison issues, medical treatment and advocacy
Earline Budd
Miracle Hands Ministries, District of Columbia
Minority
communities and HIV
Moderator
Ben Singer is a PhD Candidate in English at Rutgers University
working on an ethnographic dissertation: “On the Medical Margins: Transgender
Risk Reduction in Public Health.” Since 1993, he has worked as a consultant and
trainer in the public health sector, specializing in reducing health
disparities through improving access to culturally competent care. He
integrates academic tools, leadership building and group facilitation skills
with evidence-based research, case studies, harm reduction philosophy and
diverse experience in multiple communities. He has applied these techniques to
projects ranging from HIV/AIDS prevention to threshold reduction for access to
healthcare services in government, academic, community and private settings. He
has consulted on local, state and national levels with the CDC, HRSA,
Philadelphia Department of Health, AIDS Activities Coordinating Office, and
other health and human service organizations. Mr. Singer has applied his
knowledge to the successful design and implementation of government-funded
projects that includes founding the Trans-health Information Project (TIP), a
program of Prevention Point Philadelphia and the Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS
Education Initiative, with funding by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. From 2002-2004 he served as Director of TIP, contributing to
program design, authoring curricula, managing staff, overseeing utilization of
direct services, and presenting consumer based health information workshops, as
well as technically assisting other local social service providers. In addition
to presenting on transgender issues to government and community-based
organizations across the country, Mr. Singer most recently taught Transgender
Queries in Medicine, Law, Politics and Culture at Barnard College, in New York
City. Contact: bsinger@critpath.org and 215-243-0459
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Transgender Conference Calls: Presenter Biographical Information
Jessica Xavier, MPH, earned her Master of Public Health at the
University of Maryland. Currently she is a co-investigator and field manager of
the Virginia Transgender Health Initiative Study (THIS), a statewide initiative
to improve the health of the transgender population of Virginia, implemented by
the Community Health Research Initiative of Virginia Commonwealth University
for the Virginia Department of Health. THIS is the first state-wide initiative
assessing HIV, substance abuse, violence and suicide risks in a transgender
population in the U.S., and includes qualitative and quantitative surveys,
provider trainings and a provider resource and referral database. Ms. Xavier
has worked in the HIV/AIDS epidemic for the past 22 years, both in treatment
and in prevention. During that time she has co-founded several
transgender-specific organizations, including Gender Education & Advocacy
(GEA), a national non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of
all gender-variant people, regardless of their sexual identities. She has
presented on transgender issues both nationally and internationally, and has
consulted with local, state and national health and human service
organizations, including the CDC, HRSA and the NIH on transgender health
issues. From 1998 to 2000, she was Principal Investigator for the bilingual
Washington, DC Transgender Needs Assessment Survey. This ground-breaking study
documented a 32% rate of HIV infection among male-to-female persons of color
living in the District of Columbia. Contact:
jessicax@earthlink.net and 301-949-6049.
JoAnne Keatley received her MSW from the University of
California, Berkeley. Since 2005, she has been Program Manager of the
Correctional Medicine Consultation Network (CMCN), Family and Community
Medicine Department of USCF. The CMCN program is a collaborative project
between Regents of the University of California and the California Department
of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). This new 5-year program, funded by
the State of California, includes 32 correctional institutions from across the
State. The CMCN will assist in providing on-site medical consultation for
selected California CDCR patients with complex high-risk medical issues,
including transgender individuals. Ms. Keatley is a nationally known presenter
who has consulted with health and human service agencies and governmental
bodies throughout the country, including the CDC, SAMHSA and HRSA, on
transgender health and sensitivity issues. Her previous work includes
co-founding Health Studies for People of Color at the Center for AIDS
Prevention Studies (CAPS) at UCSF. She is also the founder and former Director
of the Transgender Resources and Neighborhood Space (TRANS), a project of CAPS
that provides culturally- and gender-appropriate substance abuse intervention,
HIV prevention, and mental health services to transgender people in San
Francisco. In that capacity she managed client cases and conducted workshops
for program participants on substance abuse treatment, HIV, job training and
other life skills. Ms. Keatley is founder and co-chair of San Francisco
Transgender Empowerment, Advocacy and Mentorship (SFTEAM), a peer-based project
focused on leadership development in transgender communities. She also serves
on the Board of Directors of New Leaf and SalvaSIDA, and is on the faculty of
the San Francisco AIDS Education Training Center. Contact:
jkeatley@fcm.ucsf.edu and 415-476-2145.
Earline Budd is a long-time transgender and HIV/AIDS advocate
living in the District of Columbia. She is currently serving as Program
Coordinator of Transgender Support Services for Miracle Hands, providing case
management and discharge planning services for transgender ex-offenders, under
a Ryan White Title 1 grant. Previously she coordinated the transgender support
program for Us Helping Us, People Into Living, Inc., an African-American AIDS
Service Organization in DC. She also served as the principal survey
administrator for the Washington Transgender Needs Assessment Survey. She
co-founded Transgender Health Empowerment, the first organization dedicated to
providing services to transgender people of color in the District. She has
extensive consulting experience, working with organizations such as the CDC,
CSAT and many agencies of the DC Government. She also conducts cultural
competency training for various health care and social service organizations
with transgender clienteles. Contact: earline_budd@yahoo.com and
202-832-5352.
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YES Center
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is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Health Policy’s Center for
Health Services Research and Policy (CHSRP) at GWU. He holds an MA in
Humanities from the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his
undergraduate degree in Education from the University of Central Oklahoma and
is currently working on his dissertation “The Effects of Funder Mandated
Organizational Activities on Minority AIDS Community Based-Programs” in the
doctoral program in the School of Business at Capella University. His HIV work
over the last 15 years includes academic research, direct client services,
administration, and project planning, coordination, management, and evaluation
on local, state and Federal levels. Parrish served as executive director of
AIDS Resources of Rural Texas for seven years, project officer for the Program
Development Branch in the HIV/AIDS Bureau at HRSA, and as a project director
for GWU’s Forum for Collaborative HIV Research before coming to CHSRP. During
his tenure as executive director of AIDS Resources of Rural Texas (ARRT), he
developed prevention and HIV counseling/testing programs for at-risk youth. The
programs were designed to provide local community colleges and universities an
opportunity to partner with ARRT to bring these services to their campus
medical clinics. Prevention-to-care programs were then developed by Mr. Parrish
as individuals were identified for services. As the organization grew, Mr.
Parrish designed youth support groups, activities, and outreach programs
specifically designed for hard-to-reach rural youth, especially Hispanic and
African-American adolescents. Mr. Parrish completed his work at ARRT by opening
a Title III medical clinic to provide care to underserved rural and minority
individuals living over 37 counties and 54,000 square miles. During Mr.
Parrish’s service in the HAB, he provided support to grantees preparing to
begin primary medical services to rural and underserved populations, including
60 organizations funded through the Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI). Mr. Parrish
has extensive project manager experience having directed several projects for
the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, including the CDC/OAR-funded “Sex and
Gender in HIV” project and the HRSA/CDC-funded “Quality of HIV Care” project.
Mr. Parrish is co-author of “Quality of HIV Care – Closing the Gap,” a report
on the status of HIV primary care in the US, including for hard-to-reach and
underserved communities. He currently manages projects for the CHSRP including
“Routine HIV Testing in the Clinical Setting” and “External Quality Review of
Medicaid Managed Care Organizations in the District of Columbia.” Contact:
blainep@gwu.edu or 202-530-0286. |
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