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9th National Harm Reduction Conference FROM PUBLIC HEALTH TO SOCIAL JUSTICE Transgender, former biomedical researcher from Duke University. Have served at the Duke LGBT Task Force for many years. Currently facilitate two gender-issues support groups in Durham (one in English, one in Spanish). Also active at the International DES Research Network e-groups founded by Scott Kerlin PhD in 1999. Originally from Santiago, Chile, have lived in the US since 1994. Educated in the US, MA/MS (Physics), UNC 1979, MS (Physical Oceanography), UNC 1985 Cornwell, Carissa, DanceSafe, Madison, WI carissa@dancesafe.org 2012 Festival Attendees Survey Results DanceSafe has gone on tour this past summer and set up at several major festivals throughout the United States, providing outreach to approximately 160,000 festival attendees. For the first time ever DanceSafe will have a survey of the attendees of music festivals to gather data on several topics such as patterns in drug use, new drugs, risky sexual behaviors while under the influence of drugs, etc. DanceSafe will reveal the results from the survey so that we can better serve our population of recreational drug users to provide the best harm reduction services. Summer Festival Survey Results DanceSafe has gone on tour this past summer and set up at several major festivals throughout the United States, providing outreach to approximately 160,000 festival attendees. For the first time ever DanceSafe will have a survey of the attendees of music festivals to gather data on several topics such as patterns in drug use, new drugs, risky sexual behaviors while under the influence of drugs, etc. DanceSafe will reveal the results from the survey so that we can better serve our population of recreational drug users to provide the best harm reduction services. For over twelve years Carissa Cornwell has been a pillar within the electronic music community and known best for her work with DanceSafe. In 1999 she started a DanceSafe chapter in Madison, Wisconsin, which expanded into Midwest DanceSafe. In 2003 she joined the Board of Directors and currently is the secretary. Carissa is the National Outreach Director and responsible for all volunteers and chapters. Developments of training curriculum and outreach strategies are just a few of her tasks. Cozier, Naima and Powers, Juli, JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc. Are we there yet Assessing Agency Readiness for Program Evaluation This presentation provides an overview of key areas that contribute to an organization’s capacity to implement effective program monitoring and evaluation including the organizational environment, available resources and support, motivational forces, and workforce and professional development. Presenters will share an evaluation readiness tool that can assist agency staff to identify evaluation strengths and areas of improvement. The tool is based on the steps outlined in the CDC Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health. Financing Harm Reduction: Writing a Successful Grant Proposal This workshop will lead participants through the grant process and describe the main components of a typical grant proposal. Facilitators will describe effective proposal planning strategies, as well as approaches to drafting an effective response. Discussions will include qualifying for the grant, determining if the organization’s goals are compatible with the purpose of the grant, deciding whether or not to submit an application, and evaluation criteria. Juli Powers, MPH has over ten years of experience as a trainer, program manager, and evaluator. Juli has been a Consultant at JSI Research and Training Institute for the last five and half years. She currently provides training and technical assistance on HIV prevention interventions, monitoring and evaluation, and organizational infrastructure to community based organizations (CBOs) across the country as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Capacity Building Assistance (CBA) project. Juli 24
9th National Harm Reduction Conference FROM PUBLIC HEALTH TO SOCIAL JUSTICE has worked extensively with CDC-funded health departments and CBOs to assist them in collecting and reporting HIV prevention, testing, and notification data; to utilize data to monitor and evaluate local HIV prevention programs; to implement data collection for evidence-based interventions; and to use data for program improvement. Juli is a national CBA Trainer for Safety Counts, Self-Help In Eliminating Life-threatening Disease (SHIELD), VOICES/VOCES, Project AIM, and Fundamentals of HIV Prevention Counseling. She holds a Master in Public Health in Global Reproductive Health and Population Studies from Emory University. Naima Morales Cozier, MSPH has worked in HIV prevention for more than 10 years and is Currently a Consultant at JSI Research and Training Institute Inc. (JSI) where she has worked on a variety of evaluation and capacity building projects. As Capacity Building Assistance Provider for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Capacity Building Branch. Naima provides technical assistance for community-based organizations (CBOs) on organizational infrastructure, implementation of evidence based interventions, and using data for program improvement. She is a national trainer for Safety Counts, Self-Help In Eliminating Life-threatening Disease (SHIELD), and Project AIM. As Training Advisor for the AIDS.gov project, Naima provides training and technical assistance (TA) on the use of social media for community-based organizations (CBOs) and national AIDS service organizations. Naima currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition in Atlanta, Georgia and has a Master in Science in Public Health from Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Craigwell, Antoine, Project Depressed Black Gay Men (DBGM), NY, NY antoineb25720@gmail.com “I don’t want to hurt you or myself: An Awareness of and Addressing Depression in Black gay men” For many people dealing with depression, hurting him or herself is an expression of loss of self-worth, self-love, self-acceptance, and the absence of self-confidence, to name a few, which results and is manifested in various types of behaviors, mannerisms, attitudes and actions. Some forms of self-harm are either physical – as in cutting of hands, writs, forearms; injection drug use and abuse; or mental – constantly thinking that they are no good, have no purpose or reason, do not belong. These are usually acted out in language and behavior, or in the extreme as in suicide, which can be from the traditional methods: shooting self, hanging, jumping off of a height or in front of a fast moving vehicle, slitting wrists, overdosing with pills, to the non-traditional such as placing one’s self in a situation where he is shot by the police, in an environment or situation where he is caught in gang cross-fire, traversing neighborhoods where he can be attacked and beaten or killed for being gay, or engaging in promiscuous and unprotected sex to contract HIV. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention states that every nine and a half minutes, someone, somewhere in the United States commits suicide. The World Health Organizations states that by 2020, depression is projected to become the leading cause of disability and the second leading contributor to the global burden of disease. The US Centers for Diseases Control estimates that up to 50 percent of people with HIV have a mental illness such as depression, and 13 percent have both mental illness and substance abuse issues; that one in five Black gay men is dealing with depression. The Archives of General Psychiatry suggests that as many as one in three persons with HIV may suffer from depression, and studies have revealed that some gay men described engaging in unsafe sex when depressed because they were less concerned about the consequences. Faced with stigma, homophobia and internalized homophobia, racism and intra-racism, discrimination, bullying and a host of other negative reactions, some Black gay men have painfully navigated the treacherous waters of their lives to arrive at a semblance of who they imagined themselves to be, constantly living with the pain of their past, while others have been burdened, weighed down by that hurt inflicted on them by their families, peers, colleagues, classmates, so-called friends, church community, wider community and society as a whole. A presentation, examining depression in Black gay men, at this conference brings to the forefront a discussion that is intrinsic to constructions of harm – whether of self or to and by others. This discussion suggests that those who are dealing with depression, a treatable mental illness, are often victims of a world already biased against them for who they are, and suffer either at their own hands or at the hands of others. It is proposed that during this discussion, to examine some of the underlying elements/contributing factors to depression in Black gay men, including sexuality, sexual orientation, identity and gender identity, and racism; sexual abuse and trauma; the constructs of religion and its dictates which denies a person and causes psychological harm; an HIV diagnosis, which further alienates an HIV positive Black gay man; and the additional issues connected to an older Black gay man. 25
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