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LUNCHEON FOCUS GROUP SERIES: FALL 2020
LUNCHEON FOCUS GROUP SERIES: FALL 2020 - POSTPONED -> WINTER 2021

This series of four (4) focus group discussions will explore the relationship of HIV/AIDS and the new global pandemic, COVID-19.  Interested individuals living with HIV/AIDS are encouraged to register, participate in in-person focus group sessions (with sufficient social distancing and other health precautions) at a gallery space in Tribeca.

 

Participants will explore their normative, stress- and traumatic- reactions, attachment, sexuality and interactive challenges, and other mental health issues related to the Covid-19 epidemic and living with HIV/AIDS.  Each participant will be provided with a financial stipend, bag lunch and a gift MetroCard.  Individuals with special physical requirements will be ushered to an elevator to access the discussion forum space.

 

To register and for more information = Call: 212-385-4945 or visit the website: www.hivartsnetwork.org

SUPPORT GROUP SERVICES

These support groups identify and support life-skills, social and community resources that address HIV/AIDS-related stressors and life transitions for those living with HIV/AIDS and their financial-care-networks. The sessions offer not just verbal but experiential interventions - movement/dance, poetry, acting, music, creative arts, illustration, interior-graphic design - unique ways in which group participants can share their concerns in modes they are familiar and comfortable with.

 

Groups include: HIV-positive support groups, newly HIV-diagnosed support groups, HIV-sero-discordant couples support groups, and HIV/AIDS-caregivers' support groups.

 

These 90-minute, 10-week sessions per season support groups are free and require a one-on-one interview assessment prior to group participation.

SUPPORT GROUP SERVICES
INDIVIDUAL - COUPLES - FAMILY GRIEF-LIFE TRANSITION(S) COUNSELING

These short-term (4-6 sessions) grief-bereavement-life transitions counseling sessions offered to persons living with HIV/AIDS, couples in HIV-concordant (+/+) or HIV-discordant (+/-) status, and families infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS - are provided a confidential forum to determine and explore the multiple life concerns that affect their living and dying processes with the HIV/AIDS virus.

 

These forums allow for permanency planning, life and career transitions, mental health and social services networking navigation, and making sense of grief-bereavement concerns that impact HIV/AIDS-survivors and their network of care providers.

GRIEF-LIFE COUNSELING
HIV/AIDS INFORMATION SESSIONS - FORUMS - CONFERENCES

These varied and cultural-diversity-specific educational forums provide updates on the medical-neuropsychiatric, pharmaceutical, and mental health psychosocial aspects of HIV/AIDS, grief and loss, and interventions specific to the diverse and multi-faceted arts communities.

 

These training sessions combine didactic, interactive and networking methods that ensure information assimilation, ongoing and informed awareness, and effective use of resources in the maintenance of preventative behaviors and social networking skills.

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One-day conferences provide forums to explore the impacts of HIV/AIDS on the creative process through panel discussions, individual narratives, interactive performances, and group interactions which enhance community building, reaffirm artistic-creative process-aspirations, and advocacy.

INFORMATION SESSIONS
SMOKING CESSATION COUNSELING (initiative since 2012)

Individual and/or group sessions offered to persons living with HIV/AIDS that centers on reviewing the dangers of cigarette smoking through harm reduction techniques, and promoting healthier wellness agendas that support persons living with HIV/AIDS who smoke.

SMOKING CESSATION
SERVICES IN REVIEW

A quick tally of HIV Arts Network's continuing efforts since 1994 to assist persons living with HIV/AIDS and their committed survivors and caregivers - as of the end of 2016:

 

  • Clients Served: 8,179 persons living with HIV/AIDS

  • Individual HIV/AIDS Counseling Sessions: 9,986 sessions (average: 3 sessions/person)

  • Couples (HIV-Concordant = both HIV-positive) Counseling Sessions: 2,342 sessions

  • Couples (HIV-Discordant = one+/one -) Counseling Sessions: 1,847 sessions

  • HIV-Positive Support Groups: 317 groups (minimum group size: 7)

  • HIV-Discordant Couples Support Groups: 112 groups (group size: 4 couples)

  • HIV-Affected Families and Caregivers Support Groups: 89 groups (group size: 10)

  • HIV-Peer Support Groups:  47 groups (group size: 4)

  • HIV/Arts and the Arts Conferences: 16 (average attendance: 90 participants)

  • HIV/AIDS and Smoking Cessation Support Groups: 18 groups (average size: 4)

  • HIV/AIDS and Prevention Workshops: 89 sessions

  • Wellness, Sexuality and Intimacy Workshops: 37 sessions

  • NGI-MSMs (Non-Gay Identified-Men who have Sex with Men) - HIV Prevention and Healthy Sex Workshops: 22 sessions [conducted at various mental health and social services agencies]

  • HIV/AIDS and Sexual Negotiation Skills Trainings: 143 sessions (conducted at different sites throughout the USA including Vieques, Puerto Rico)

  • Male Sexuality, HIV/AIDS and Harm Reduction Trainings: 55 sessions

  • Women, HIV/AIDS & STDs: Sexuality and Sex Talk: 41 sessions

  • HIV/AIDS and Mental Health Workshops: 68 sessions

  • HIV/AIDS, Death, Dying and Bereavement Workshops: 107 sessions

  • Navigating the HIV/AIDS and Medical-Mental Health-Social Services Systems Workshops: 103 sessions (provided to HIV-positive client and their caregivers)

  • HIV/AIDS Presentations at National and International HIV/AIDS Conferences: 116 presentations - mostly referred sessions and including presentations in Toronto, Canada; Berlin, Germany; Paris, France; HongKong; Johannesburg, South Africa; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and throughout the USA.

SERVICES IN REVIEW
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