After you've figured out your organization’s readiness, you'll need a plan to prepare your agency to provide services for women of trans experience. Finally, you are ready to hire your team. This page has examples of hiring guidance, job descriptions and organizing a trans community advisory board. Other implementation tools needed to ensure a successful and supportive team are also included.
Side Note: During the hiring process, hiring managers and supervisors should be sensitive to the possibility that applicants have transitioned or in the process of transitioning. The name and gender on the application may or may not correspond with their gender identity. However, in such case, it is appropriate to respectfully ask the person how they identify so that you can use the proper gender pronouns during the hiring process.
Healthy Divas Training of Facilitators Refresher With CAL-PEP: Day 1
In this section we will walk through the intervention starting with:
- Session 1: Let’s Be Real! How to create a safe space for discussing their health care history and HIV status. Identify ways gender identity and stigma have impacted client’s experiences accessing health care. Discuss the barriers and challenges they face during this session. The new status natural manual. And how to identify clients based on their status.
- Session 2: Be Fierce! Learning about identifying personal strengths and understand what role personal strengths can play in achieving health and HIV prevention or treatment goals. And, how to help clients identify their everyday achievements.
- Watch this video on YouTube.
Healthy Divas Training of Facilitators Refresher With CAL-PEP: Day 2
In this section we will review:
- Session 3: Get it! Learn about client’s communication style. Learn and practice communication skills Apply communication skills to increase health care engagement. During the session you will roleplay with your clients active listening and assertive communication.
- Session 4: Keeping it Together! In this session clients will learn the concept of Social Support and analyze impact of stigma, transphobia, trauma, and substance. Understand the different types of social support. How to ask for and receive it.
- The Workshop!: During the Workshop 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. And practice Gender Affirmation Exercise.
- Watch this video on YouTube.
Healthy Divas Training of Facilitators Refresher With CAL-PEP: Day 3
In this section we will review:
- Session 5: Work it! Learn how to recognize and amplify progress and successes. Understand challenges and review attempts to work through them. Problem solve barrier to successfully completing Personal Health Vision.
- Session 6: Healthy Diva! Identify continued health care challenges and barriers to care. Problem-solve challenges related to health care engagement. List future goals, visualize future success!
- Watch this video on YouTube.
Facilitator Training Slides (PPTX)
