Clinica Bienestar Philadelphia FIGHT and Prevention Point Philadelphia

Clinica Bienestar Philadelphia FIGHT and Prevention Point Philadelphia Laura Bamford, Miguel Munoz-Laboy, Jose Benitez, Elvis Rosado

Objectives � 1. Identify HIV positive persons of Puerto Rican origin who are unaware of their status or not engaged in HIV primary care � 2. Engage and retain these individuals in a culturally competent, scalable, and sustainable model of integrated care � 3. Provide quality HIV primary care, HIV/HCV co-infection, mental health, and substance abuse treatment � 4. Successfully address contextual, cultural, and language barriers that impede engagement and retention in care � 5. Evaluate this model locally and in collaboration with the national SPNS initiative

Intervention Description • Priority population – Puerto Rican injection drug users • Service delivery setting – Prevention Point Philadelphia (PPP) • Strategies � Stigma reduction – host educational workshops at PPP, conduct a traditional community assessment through PPP to identify community groups, churches, and other venues to raise awareness around HIV stigma, offer stigma reduction workshops to interested organizations • Identification (outreach, recruitment, testing) - inform the community of the existence of Clinica Bienestar, identify HIV positive individuals through increased HIV testing at Prevention Point and outreach sites, place advertisement in Al Dia, the local Latino newspaper • Linkage-to-Care - same day linkage of newly identified HIV positive individuals to medical case managers at Clinica Bienestar • Retention - provide quality and culturally competent medical care in the community in which patients’ reside, care navigator services, transportation, culturally appropriate education initiatives, family connection initiative

Intervention Description �Client incentives - clients can receive mail delivery at Prevention Point, collocated syringe exchange and suboxone treatment programs, toikens for public transportation �Staffing � Laura Bamford, MD, MSCE - Principal Investigator/Program Director � Miguel Munoz-Laboy, Dr. PH - Supervisor of local evaluation � Andres Freire, BA - Project Coordinator � Jose Benitez, MSW - Executive Director of Prevention Point Philadelphia � Sam Sitrin, BA - Medical Case Manager � Elvis Rosado, BA - Medical Case Manager � Nidia Flores - Care Navigator/Outreach Coordinator � La. Quita Washington – Medical Assistant

Intervention Description �Staff training �Weekly case conferences with the project staff �Training on use of electronic medical record �Education related to ADAP applications, direct emergency financial assistance (DEFA) grants, medical assessment forms for medical assistance, housing applications

HIV Care Continuum Targets of Intervention Activities Stigma Identification Linkage Retention Categorize interventionreduction activities within the HIV Care Cascade by placing an “X” in the appropriate boxes below. Only include activities funded by HRSA/SPNS. Intervention Activities: 1. Stigma workshops X 2. HIV testing X X X 3. Community X X X 4. Newspaper X Outreach advertisement 5. Same day linkage X X X 6. Culturally X X X 7. Education X X X 8. Family X appropriate care initiatives connection X

Intervention Update • What progress have you made in the development of the protocol for your intervention(s)? We have developed our protocol and are awaiting the final national evaluation to submit it to the Philadelphia FIGHT IRB • Evidence based interventions – provide collocated HIV testing and primary HIV medical care, same day linkage to medical case manager after HIV diagnosis, provide culturally competent primary HIV medical care • How are you documenting the procedures you will use in your intervention – We will create a summary of findings report, a providers’ guide for HIV primary care providers, and a strategic plan for leaders of community-based health and social service agencies

Intervention Update • What changes have you made in your intervention(s)? - We have not made any changes to our intervention. • What challenges are you facing in design/implementation of your intervention? We have not faced any challenges in the design/implementation of the intervention. • What is the timeline for implementation of your intervention(s)? – We started piloting our intervention in December 2013. We are prepared to scale up our HIV testing and outreach to community partners after July 1 st.

Partners and collaborators �Clinica Bienestar is a clinical collaboration between Philadelphia FIGHT and Prevention Point Philadelphia �Norris Square Civic Association, Juaniata Community Mental Health Clinic, Hispanic Clergy of Philadelphia, COMHAR, Congreso, New Journeys in Recovery, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative (GALAEI), Women’s Community Revitalization Project, City of Philadelphia Prison System, Institute for Criminal Justice of Philadelphia FIGHT

Project Staff 1. Laura Bamford – lbamford@fight. org 2. Miguel Munoz-Laboy – miguel. munoz-laboy@temple. edu 3. Jose Benitez – jose@ppp. org 4. Elvis Rosado – elvis@ppp. org