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Toolkits

Free downloadable toolkits and resource guides from AIDS United and AIDS United University to support HIV prevention, care, and advocacy organizations.

Toolkits
May 11, 2021

Housing Is HealthCare

This toolkit has been designed to help other organizations or groups of individuals who are committed to starting their own supportive housing for people living with HIV/AIDS. We have found that using a housing first, harm reduction approach to care is an effective way of helping people who are chro

Toolkits
May 11, 2021

PrEP Kit

This toolkit, created in partnership with GMHC, was created as a resource for staff in community-based organizations (CBOs) to support their efforts at educating communities about and increasing access to PrEP. It is divided into the following seven sections: What is PrEP? Who Is PrEP for? PrEP Rese

Toolkits
May 11, 2021

Best Practices: Integrating Peers into HIV Models of Care

Learn about unique and effective Peer navigation models that successfully-and efficiently-reach vulnerable HIV populations and how to sustain these services. As HIV care becomes part of a primary medical home model, sustaining Peer services such as Peer navigation is critical. Highlighting findings

Toolkits
May 11, 2021

ASO Merger Series

The changing health care environment has AIDS Service Organizations facing critical questions, opportunities, and challenges. It’s a brave new world—and it can be a complicated one to navigate. Managing change, however, cannot happen thoughtfully without the right resources. Mergers can be a powerfu

Toolkits
May 11, 2021

Is It Time to Close?

For over 25 years, Metro TeenAIDS provided high quality HIV prevention and related services for youth in Washington, DC. Metro TeenAIDS prided itself on its outstanding and fundable programs and services as well as their ability to anticipate change, prepare for it, and stay a step ahead of the curv

Toolkits
May 11, 2021

Making Connections: A Guide to Starting a Rural Health Care Telemedicine Program

Telemedicine holds great promise for providing HIV-specific and other care to some of the most underserved communities in the U.S., such as low income people living with HIV in the rural south. The purpose of this guide is to provide practical information and tips for organizations interested in sta

Toolkits
May 11, 2021

Trauma-Informed Care: Improving Services, Saving Lives

Innovative, culturally relevant, and comprehensive approaches and interventions that effectively address the effects of violence and abuse on the lives of people living with HIV are an integral component of HIV health care and social service provision. The development and maintenance of a trauma-inf

Toolkits
May 11, 2021

Succession Planning Learning Module

A change in CEO leadership is inevitable for all organizations. It is a time of risk, opportunity, and certainly indicates a period when the Board must increase their level of engagement. Successful leadership transitions occur when organizations are thoughtful about how they prepare for the change.

Toolkits
May 11, 2021

Sustainable Services, A Guide for Contracting with Payers

HIV-focused community based organizations (HCBOs) have seen dramatic changes in federal spending for HIV prevention and treatment over the past decade. Federal domestic spending on the treatment and prevention of HIV indicates that while overall spending has been steadily increasing, the Ryan White

Toolkits
May 10, 2021

The Right Hit

The past few years have brought a barrage of attention to drug use from local and national journalists in the United States. Syringe services programs around the country are finding that the national dialogue on drug use and drug poisoning is a double-edged sword, bringing media and community attent

Toolkits
May 10, 2021

Chemsex 101

AIDS United, as the administrator of the Syringe Access Fund, receives information from grantees around the country, including details on what drugs are being used and what participants are asking of service providers. Additionally, staff interact with organizations on a global stage; they learn abo

Toolkits
May 10, 2021

Sector Transformation

When was the last time you had your organizational check-up? Change is nothing new for AIDS service organizations (ASOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs). They’ve evolved time and time again since the beginning of the HIV epidemic. Only now, change is coming on multiple fronts — and it’s hap

Toolkits
May 10, 2021

Getting To Zero

Let’s end the HIV epidemic together! Request AIDS United’s training and technical assistance services to strengthen your organization’s response to community needs. WHY RECEIVE TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FROM AIDS UNITED? AIDS United (AU) brings over a decade of experience providing personali

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