This page serves as a resource page for a workshop presented at the National Creating Change Conference 2010 in Dallas, Texas.

Workshop Description -

This discussion-based workshop will address the conflicts and barriers created by the "down-er than thou" mentality that often leads to feelings of exclusion and grudges in social justice organizing. Speaking specifically to youth and student organizers, this session will discuss and then outline strategies to build communities of strong organizers instead of alienating one another with destructive judeents. In an effort to create sustainable activism, we will develop real methods for confronting the effects of judgmental conlict.

Oftentimes, our HIV prevention and testing programs can become solely focused on HIV/AIDS without much attention or resources allotted to STD prevention. This webinar will assist you in learning ways to incorporate STD awareness and testing into your HIV prevention programming. The Washington, DC Department of Health will be guest hosting this webinar to provide a look at STDs prevention, facts, and program ideas that will be beneficial for all HIV youth service providers. 

Slides from webinar presented on January 22, 2009.

Further Citations and Resources -

To find an interactive activity to teach people about how STI's increase the risk of HIV infection, please visit the CDC website here.

To learn about STI infection, rates, and resources in your area, please visit the CDC website here.

For questions and answers about STI's and STD's, use Goaskalice.com.

To access, inSPOT, to get resources on STI's and internet technologies, click here.

• I.S.I.S., Inc.is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to developing and using Internet technologies to prevent disease transmission and enhance the sexual well-being of individuals and communities. Our mission is to provide leadership, innovation, educational resources and research in online sexual health promotion.

To check out what the STICC of Metro DC is doing, click here.

• Formed in 1982, the Sexually Transmitted Infections Community Coalition (STICC of Metropolitan Washington, DC) is a partnership of over thirty public and private stakeholders in the metropolitan area who have a common interest to reduce the impact of sexually transmitted infections (STIs)*, including HIV, in the community.

Visit the American Social Health Association, here.

• The American Social Health Association is a trusted, non-profit organization that has advocated on behalf of patients to help improve public health outcomes since 1914. We are America's authority for sexually transmitted infection information.

Find out more about RealTalkDC, a best practice and model for incorporating social media and text messaging into your HIV and STI prevention campaigns - click here.

Please visit Advocates for Youth for more indepth information and resources on sexual health and education for young LGBTQ people. Click here to visit.

Oftentimes, our HIV prevention and testing programs can become solely focused on HIV/AIDS without much attention or resources allotted to STD prevention. This webinar will assist you in learning ways to incorporate STD awareness and testing into your HIV prevention programming. The Washington, DC Department of Health will be guest hosting this webinar to provide a look at STDs prevention, facts, and program ideas that will be beneficial for all HIV youth service providers.  
 

Recording of webinar originally presented on February 9, 2010.

Further Citations and Resources -

To find an interactive activity to teach people about how STI's increase the risk of HIV infection, please visit the CDC website here.

To learn about STI infection, rates, and resources in your area, please visit the CDC website here.

For questions and answers about STI's and STD's, use Goaskalice.com.

To access, inSPOT, to get resources on STI's and internet technologies, click here.

• I.S.I.S., Inc.is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to developing and using Internet technologies to prevent disease transmission and enhance the sexual well-being of individuals and communities. Our mission is to provide leadership, innovation, educational resources and research in online sexual health promotion.

To check out what the STICC of Metro DC is doing, click here.

• Formed in 1982, the Sexually Transmitted Infections Community Coalition (STICC of Metropolitan Washington, DC) is a partnership of over thirty public and private stakeholders in the metropolitan area who have a common interest to reduce the impact of sexually transmitted infections (STIs)*, including HIV, in the community.

Visit the American Social Health Association, here.

• The American Social Health Association is a trusted, non-profit organization that has advocated on behalf of patients to help improve public health outcomes since 1914. We are America's authority for sexually transmitted infection information.

Find out more about RealTalkDC, a best practice and model for incorporating social media and text messaging into your HIV and STI prevention campaigns - click here.

Please visit Advocates for Youth for more indepth information and resources on sexual health and education for young LGBTQ people. Click here to visit.

Youth-serving organizations should always include young people on its board of directors. But how should youth board members be recruited, trained, encouraged and retained? This webinar will examine ways to nurture effective youth board members and discuss the ways to encourage youth to join a non-profit board. This webinar will also discuss the legal and ethnical ramifications of youth board members.

Recording of webinar originally presented on September 2, 2009.

Enthusiastic youth leaders and committed adult supervisors - how can they work together? This webinar will explore ways to maximize youth participation by strengthening youth-adult partnerships. This webinar will offer best practice examples and principles that should be in place to encourage a strong and productive working relationship. This session will also explore the importance of mentorship and offer ways to establish effective mentors.

Slides from webinar presented on July 8, 2009.

NYAC, in partnership with CDC/DHAP, is a provider of capacity building assistance (CBA) services for community based organizations providing HIV/AIDS prevention and education services to young people.  With a specific emphasis on organizations providing services to young men who have sex with men (YMSM) and transgender youth of color, and LGBTQ youth.

This fact sheet contains more information on the capacity building assistance NYAC is providing through our partnership with CDC.

We are in the process of adding to this section of our web site.

Support our efforts to bring additional resources to this space soon!