The Healthy Divas Manual is a road map of information for the peer counselors to deliver each sessions successfully. We recommend having the manual in front of you during each and every session! Each session has custom worksheets that are tailored to each session. It is the peer counselors' job to work with the clients through each worksheet.
Session #1
- Understand the structure and goals of the program
- Identify beliefs related to health, HIV prevention or treatment, and gender goals
- Learn about setting attainable goals
- Identify a short-term health related goal
- Receive workshop preview
- Complete gender affirming exercise
Session #2
- Discuss progress towards goals
- Identify personal strengths
- Understand what role personal strengths can play in achieving health and HIV prevention or treatment goals
- Identify a short-term health related goal
- Complete gender affirmation exercise
Group Workshop
During the workshops clients will:
- Increase knowledge of HIV and PrEP medication and HIV prevention strategies
- Increase knowledge of Gender Affirming Care
- Learn and practice strategies for communicating effectively with health care providers
- Practice Gender Affirmation Exercise
Session #3
- Discuss experience of workshop, process information presented, and identify remaining concerns
- Discuss progress towards goals Revise Personal Health Vision
- Learn and practice communication skills
- Apply communication skills to increase health care engagement
- Identify a short-term health related goal
Session #4
- Discuss progress towards weekly goal and Personal Health Vision
- Learn about types of social support, and consider impact of stigma, transphobia, trauma, and substance use on social support asked for and received
- Identify sources for social support in client’s own network.
- Match types and sources of available social support to goals in client’s Personal Health Vision
- Set a new health-related goal
- Complete gender affirmation exercise
Session #5
- Discuss and reinforce progress towards goals
- Identify recent successes and amplify them
- Identify challenges to reaching health and HIV treatment- or prevention-related goals
- Set a new health-related goal Complete gender affirmation exercise
Session #6
- Discuss progress towards goals
- Identify continued health care challenges/barriers to care
- Problem-solve one challenge related to health care engagement
- List future goals, visualize future success
