World Hepatitis Awareness Day Events July 28th – 29th, 2011

Broward County, Florida

“New Frontiers”

Participating Agencies:Minority Development & Empowerment Holy Cross Hospital – Community Outreach

Red Hispana & Broward House

To enhance and improve access to resources for people living with Hepatitis C in Broward County through the creation of a community focused testing & “linkage to care” network.

Create awareness Educate about the disease Provide resources Test & refer to care when appropriate

The Goal:

Edith Garcia – Previously Hepatitis Manager for BCHDEvelyn Morales – Prior STD/DIS w. BCHD, & CRUSHH, Case Management Dir.

Regine LeFevre – Physician in Haiti, Prior BCHD Admin. Lisa Agate – Prior BCHD AIDS Program Dir. for over 25 years Kim Saiswick – Nurse, over 20 years in community programs Audrey Clarke – Mobile Unit Tester for Holy Cross Hosp. -OutreachJoey Wynn – 20 years of Grant writing & data analysis

HIV Testing Staff – Decades of cumulative HIV Testing experience between all the various agency’s staff

Expertise of Staff:

All agencies held community health fairs & provided locations for testing MDE provided linkage to Caribbean Communities, Translation services,

Hepatitis expertise & training for all agencies Holy Cross Hospital’s Outreach Team provided the mobile testing Unit as well

as HIV testing staff and a network of specialists for referral & follow up Red Hispana provided radio advertising formats for all events

Collaborating Partners/roles:

Broward House: ◦ Central & South Central county

MDE: north-central county HCH Outreach Team

◦ provided mobile testing unit at Lauderhill Mall and various other locations

Collaborator’s locations:

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The importance of Diversity in:

•Staff & their experiences

•Communities we approached:

•Caribbean populations

•Staff at healthcare agencies / providers

•Substance using communities

•Community at large (Malls, Faith Based, etc…)

Teamwork = Success!The Substance Use Recovery group created a Health Fair, and had Dr. Puga from CDTC Present along with the BCHD STD Clinic Manager as well as a variety of other topics, with lunch, give aways & screenings

food and drinks equals Success!!!!

Incentives = Success!!!

Staff Trainings & Certifications:

Orasure - Rapid Test

Hepatitis 101

Alternative methods more favorable to Caribbean communities to get the word out

Agencies having experience dealing with these communities (both MDE & Red Hispana) have greater credibility & trust

Flexible, reaching more people across greater time span and locations than traditional handouts / flyers / word of mouth from staff could reach

Innovative Marketing & Awareness campaign:

Family centered approach worked for MDE:

We met to identify most important Data elements Team Created intake forms Agreed on Analysis Goals Database and staff to provide management of data

“Teachable Moments”

Referrals, follow up and aftercare network, from Holy Cross Hospital’s network of providers / PAPs etc… = Success!!!!

The Numbers:

Total people reached: 799

485 received materials & talked about Hep C.

Total People Tested: 288 Total Positives: 11

The Numbers:

Emphasize to clients stay in contact with Care Providers Send out information for Hepatitis to all agencies Be a conduit for requests & maintain Hepatitis referral

network Work with Holy Cross & other hospitals for indigent care

primary & specialty coverage, & linkage follow up Develop strategies for creation of support groups Identify communities most in need for these services

Next Steps: