Community Education, Tabeling, and Outreach Requests
SAAF’s Community Education Program aims to provide relevant and appropriate health and wellness support and resources to support the community in playing an active role in achieving, protecting, and sustaining their health and wellness.
The Community Education Program provides presentations, information, distributes harm reduction supplies such as condoms, and HIV testing throughout the community. Our program follows Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) best practices on health communication and structural-level condom distribution programs. Our presentations convey scientifically accurate information to a general audience.
Requests to our Community Education Program most often come directly from agencies, schools, and community organizations that are specifically looking for information about the topics below.
Resource and Outreach
Resource and information tables are provided at health fairs and other community events. Participants of the events are engaged for conversation that will lead to increased knowledge about health risk and risk reduction along with the sharing of information about the agency and other community services. Depending on the type of event and its location, staff and volunteers will distribute literature, condoms, and other safer sex materials.
Presentations
HIV 101
The HIV 101 will convey accurate information about how HIV can be transmitted and prevented. The topics covered include the definition of HIV and AIDS, the fluids that transmit HIV, routes of HIV transmission, and conditions for HIV transmission. In addition the presentation will analyze the continuum of risk to determine potential for HIV transmission, describe how to reduce risk of HIV transmission for certain behaviors, and demonstrate proper condom use.
STI 101
The STI 101 will convey accurate information about sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including transmission and prevention. The presentation topics include the definition of STIs, the connection between STIs and public health issues, prevention of STIs, proper technique for condom use, and STI testing.
Viral Hepatitis 101
The Viral Hepatitis 101 will reflect an understanding of how viral hepatitis affects the body, identify ways in which Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C are transmitted, and explain harm reduction strategies for injection drug use. This presentation is most commonly presented to current or former substance users and providers who work with current or former substance users.
Harm Reduction 101
The Harm Reduction 101 will convey accurate information about substance misuse and the harm reduction approach to public health. This presentation will define harm reduction, identify the stages of change model, discuss the context of risk and barriers to health and wellness, and analyze alternatives to practicing potentially risky behaviors.
LGBTQ+ 101
Learn how to create affirming and positive spaces for LGBTQ+ folks. By the end of this session, participants will be able to define and identify the differences between gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation. They will leave with new strategies and best practices regarding pronoun usage and how to ensure services and spaces are inclusive and affirming to LGBTQ+ folks.
Prep and PEP 101
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) are biomedical prevention strategies that can be used to prevent HIV. In this 101 we will discuss the difference between the two and who can benefit from these prevention strategies. The presentation includes how it works in the body, and overall sexual health.
Trainings
Best-Practices for Working with LGBTQ+ Clients and Patients
This training aims to increase LGBTQ+ cultural responsiveness of health care and social service providers in Arizona. The presentation also aims to increase understanding of how addressing health disparities such as tobacco use can improve the overall health and wellness of LGBTQ+ clients and patients. Our LGBTQ+ Cultural Responsiveness Training identifies terms and definitions related to gender and sexual identities and discusses examples of health disparities and barriers to care that impact these communities. Steps that individuals and organizations can take to ensure services are inclusive to LGBTQ+ clients and patients are examined and explained. This training is approximately 75-90 minutes and can be delivered throughout the state of Arizona.
Question, Persuade, and Refer
QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer — the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as people trained in CPR help save lives, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. QPR can be learned in our Gatekeeper course in one hour and 30 minutes and is available to people ages 13+.
PrEP & PEP 101 Presentation
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) are biomedical prevention strategies that can be used to prevent HIV. In this 101 we will discuss the difference between the two and who can benefit from these prevention strategies. The presentation includes how it works in the body, and overall sexual health.