2008 CAPS Conference: New Directions in HIV Prevention
Friday, April 18, 2008, 8 am - 5 pm
Mission Bay Community Center, UCSF
1675 Owens Street, SF
The 2008 CAPS Conference was a success. Thank you to everyone who participated, including the wonderful keynote speakers, workshop presenters, Intervention Village exhibitors and the CAPS Community Advisory Board. Special thank you to our co-sponsors: UCSF AIDS Research Institute, California HIV/STD Prevention Training Center, California State Office on AIDS, and the City of Berkeley Division of Public Health.
Keynote Speakers
Marguerita Lightfoot, PhD
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Marguerita Lightfoot is Director of the TIE Core at CAPS and a counseling psychologist. Her research specialty is in the areas of adolescents, intervention and prevention. She has worked with ethnically-diverse populations of low-income women and men from health care settings, youth living with HIV, and seriously mentally ill women and men. She is particularly interested in developing cost-effective interventions that are easily translatable in community settings, and in utilizing new technologies to engage disenfranchised individuals. She has developed interventions for runaway/homeless youth, adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system, and youth living with HIV, among others. She has a unique ability to determine the programmatic needs of the most vulnerable populations and develop programs that are cutting-edge and likely to successfully engage these populations to increase mental health and well-being. |
LeRoy Ricardo Blea, MPH
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LeRoy Ricardo Blea is the Chief of the Prevention Services Section, Public Health Division, City of Berkeley. Mr. Blea has worked for the Berkeley Free Clinic as an STD medic in the Gay Men’s Health Collective; Tri-City Health Center as coordinator of a countywide HIV prevention program for young gay men of color using community-organizing models of intervention; and Marin AIDS Project as Evaluation Coordinator for two HIV intervention programs for men in San Quentin State Prison. Locally, he has worked to expand the Prevention Services Section beyond individual psychosocial models of intervention. Mr. Blea has taken leadership roles in several local, state and national HIV and STD health policy groups. His current research interests include health inequities, ethics and public health practice, and politics and public health policy making. |
Workshops
See slides from the workshops.
Stigma and Discrimination
- Stigma in International Settings: The Impact on People Living With and At Risk for HIV - Wayne T. Steward
- Effects of Transphobia on Transgender Communities: What’s Really Going On and What Do We Do About It? - JoAnne Keatley, Jae Sevelius, Lydia Sausa, James Rouse Iñiguez
- Responding to Layered Stigma: MSM of Color Living with HIV - Tim Vincent
New Technologies
- Delivering Interventions for Youth Via Interactive Technologies - Marguerita Lightfoot
- PalmPal Technology in Counseling and Testing Settings - Nicolas Sheon, Isela Gonzalez, Dale Gluth, Shelley Facente, Noah Carraher
- A Novel Condom Access Program for County Jail Prisoners - Kate Monico Klein, Mary Sylla, Olga Grinstead Reznick
Prevention in Community Context
- Policy to Practice: Prevention in the Baths - Diane Binson, Paul Cotten, Bob Siedle-Khan, William J. Woods
- Research to Program: Pathways to Sustainable HIV Prevention with Women Visitors at San Quentin State Prison - Angela Allen, Megan Comfort, Tara Regan
- Ensuring Patient Rights in an Era of Changing Policy: The Impact of CDC-Recommended Routine Testing - Kathleen Clanon, Janet Myers
Current Trends in CAPS Research
- International Research at CAPS - Hong-Ha Truong, Nooshin Razani, Edwin Duncan Charlebois III. Moderator: Jeffrey Mandel
- Collaborative Research with MSM of Color - George Ayala, Michael Benjamin, Susan Kegeles, Michael Foster. Moderator: Audrey Bangi
- Capacity Building in Data Use to Inform Program Development - Janet Myers, Carol Dawson Rose, Hilary Spindler, Usma Khan. Moderator: Kevin Khamarko
All photographs taken by Karen Shuster and Jennifer Usher.
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