Webinar occurred on March 9, 2016; 3:00–4:30 pm EDT
Taking Care: Understanding and Addressing Mental Health Among Women Living with HIV was the first in our 2016 WATCH! webinar series that offers women living with HIV capacity building and training on HIV disease and treatment advocacy. During this webinar, participants received an overview of HIV science by prominent speakers including:
- Overview of Mental Health, Women and HIV, Vickie Lynn, MSW, MPH, Doctoral student, Instructor at University of South Florida, Tampa, (USF), The Well Project Community Advisory Board, A Girl Like Me blogger
- From Treatment to Healing – The Promise of Trauma-Informed Care, Edward Machtinger, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Women’s HIV Program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Moderated by:
- Krista Martel, executive director, The Well Project
Webinar Recording and Slides
- Click here to download the PDF slides of Taking Care: Understanding and Addressing Mental Health Among Women Living with HIV
Want more information on this webinar topic or want to share in your community? The content used to create this webinar is largely based on fact sheets found on The Well Project's website. In order to assist you in your development as an HIV advocate, we have also created PDF slide sets for the fact sheets you can download and use to disseminate this information to others. Please note that the information in The Well Project’s fact sheets and PDF slides are reviewed and updated regularly, so please check back often to make sure you have the most recent version when using as an educational tool.
- Depression, Women, and HIV
- Stress Management
- Violence Against Women and HIV
- Trauma and HIV
- Resources on the Intersection of Women, HIV, Violence and Trauma: Scientific and policy data, publications, survivors' personal stories, and community-based fact sheets
- A Girl Like Me: More than 40 blogs written and published on A Girl Like Me touching upon trauma and violence
- Women's HIV Program at UCSF
- Positive Women’s Network – USA
Suicide Hotline: In the U.S.
- call 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) or
- 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255)
- To find a suicide hotline: http://www.suicide.org/suicide-hotlines.html
