Our Thoughts, Our Voices, Our Time: Peers and Advocacy
The 14th Annual Iris House Women as the Face of AIDS Summit May 6, 2019
Abstracts must be submitted online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LRTFFL5
by 5PM on MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2019
UPDATE: The deadline to submit abstracts has been extended to 5PM on THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019.
Iris House: A Center for Women Living with HIV, Inc., is now accepting Workshop Proposals Abstracts for our annual two-day Women as the Face of AIDS Summit. Monday, May 6, 2019 will provide educational and networking opportunities for people living with HIV and AIDS, providers and professionals working in AIDS service organizations, community-based organizations, government and medical facilities. We are also hopeful that we will produce a neighborhood health fair that will focus on consumers, clients and members of our broader neighborhoods and communities.
The 2019 Summit’s theme is “Our Thoughts, Our Voices, Our Time: Peers and Advocacy” and we are very excited about this year’s theme and the opportunities it will present as we look at the ways that including people living with HIV have improved program design, outreach efforts, strategic planning, advocacy and lobbying efforts, and the inherent flavor of each of our organizational missions/programs.
The greatest achievements in Ending the Epidemic have come when we have all worked together: People Living with HIV, People in High Risk Categories, Advocates, Social Workers, Medical Providers, Researchers and Policy Makers. All of our experiences make our forward momentum stronger, and nothing can be fully effective without all of us on the same page, amplifying each other’s voices and building on our shared work.
Abstracts must be submitted online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LRTFFL5
by 5PM on MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2019
UPDATE: The deadline to submit abstracts has been extended to 5PM on THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019.
Workshop Presentations will showcase 60-minute presentations that will reflect one of the five conference tracks. We invite a wide range of presentation styles -- lecture, Q&A, panel, hands-on participation, and more -- and hope to offer a diverse collection of topics within each track. This year’s format will offer opportunities to present on five themes, each drawing inspiration from the ways that peers have influenced our work and improved our outcomes:
Track 1: Our Thoughts: We know that many of our funding partners want to see people living with HIV included in program design and implementation. How have prevention efforts, emotional wellness programs, linkage to care, case management, housing, substance use and mental health programs diversified their approach with input directly from the clients they serve? What has worked well and where are the challenges?
Track 2: Our Voices: The Office of National AIDS Policy has been dormant since January 2017; The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS has gone more than a year with no actual council. How is peer advocacy more important than ever when our federal government dismantles our hard-won communication space? How do advocacy days work, and are they effective? What successes have we seen from rallies at City Hall or in meetings at City Council? How can we effectively design strategies to amplify each other and bring the contemporary needs of people living with HIV to the attention of policymakers?
Track 3: Our Time: This track is interested in today. What programs and services are you currently offering that are helping to End the Epidemic? How effective have they been? Have you had challenges with particular programs? Can they be modeled for other organizations? What are we learning as we enter the last two years of the New York State Blueprint? How have peer-inclusive programs expanded reach, improved engagement in care, provided support for medication adherence, and what other areas of focus are we looking at as we grow for tomorrow?
Track 4: Our Space: This track will focus on ways that Client Advisory Boards can help organizations create and fulfill their vision and ethos. Are we a family? How do we care for each other? How do we ensure that we include others? How do we ensure that we adequately represent and convey the needs of the most vulnerable among the subgroup of clients we represent? How do we fully live our mission?
Track 5: Our Selves: Iris House was founded with the specific purpose of serving women of color living with HIV, yet today, it has increased its focus to serve men, LGBTQ+ individuals, immigrants, and neighbors at risk, but not living with HIV. How do organizations augment their focus while still continuing to serve their existing populations? How can the inclusion of various populations and people with varying needs serve to build on and uplift the work and the programs we already offer? What programs are still needed, and how does an agency work to grow in and around its niche? How are strategic partnerships a key way to ensure that all client needs are met?
Sessions are open to your imagination, but may address issues such as:
- What specific things have you done at your agencies to address these issues?
- What barriers/challenges exist in addressing these issue and how have you worked to overcome them and which issues still persist?
- Has recent advocacy work and social justice work (gay marriage, Black Lives Matter, racial/gender equality on campuses for example) changed how you perceive or deliver services?
- Who you target for services?
We are excited about the format this year, and hope that you will consider presentations that open our eyes, challenge our perceptions, force us to really think about the way we interact with the world and each other, and keep ourselves available to understand our own strengths and shortcomings.
As always, we encourage you to find ways to address the needs and challenges of women, LGB and Transgender populations, youth and seniors, etc., in your submission.
Abstracts must be submitted online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LRTFFL5
by 5PM on MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2019
UPDATE: The deadline to submit abstracts has been extended to 5PM on THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019.
The following information will be required for submission:
NAME AND TITLE OF PRESENTER AND ORGANIZATION, if applicable.
INDICATE TRACK UNDER WHICH YOU’D LIKE TO BE CONSIDERED
TITLE: Title of Presentation
FORMAT: Lecture, Panel, Workshop
EXPECTED AUDIENCE: PLWHAs, Front Line CBO Staff, Medical Professionals, Organizational Leadership, Policymakers, Community at Large, Activists
OBJECTIVE: Describe the purpose of the workshop and what outcomes you hope from your audience at the Summit.
METHODS: Briefly describe the information you’ll be presenting, and the methods or strategies used in the program.
RESULTS: Describe the objective outcomes of the program, project or study. Include quantifiable data, if possible.
TAKE-AWAYS: State the conclusions reached as a result of the program.
All selected presentations using visual displays at the Summit (e.g., a PowerPoint presentation) will be required to submit those by Monday, April 22, 2019. We ask this for logistic purposes and space preparation, not content review. If you are using material created by a third party entity, we require you to credit them appropriately.
Abstracts must be submitted online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LRTFFL5
by 5PM on MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2019
UPDATE: The deadline to submit abstracts has been extended to 5PM on THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019.
Selection: Workshop faculty will be notified no later than February 6, 2019
If you have questions, please contact: Kimberly Richardson, krichardson@irishouse.org or 646-548-0100 x221
Honorariums and Reimbursement
The committee regrets that it cannot offer honorariums or reimbursements for food and/or transportation costs for all presenters. If you are in need of transportation assistance, please indicate this at the end of your abstract submission. All workshop panelists will receive breakfast and lunch served at the Summit.
