HIV Update for Substance Use Professionals - May 6, 2025
Includes a Live In-Person Event on 05/06/2025 at 8:30 AM (EDT)
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- Learners - $60
A 6-Hour Training with James Figueiredo, M.Ed.
8:30am-4:00pm
130 Pembroke Road, Suite 150, Concord, NH 03301
Presentation: This one-day training is geared toward substance use professionals and will provide participants with basic and updated information about HIV and other STDs. This includes risk factors, modes of transmission, signs and symptoms, prevention, and the relationship between HIV and other STDs. Updated information on mother-to-child transmission and prevention and an overview of the epidemic is also covered.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Explain various methods of HIV sexual transmission and prevention;
- Articulate the process of mother-to-child transmission of HIV;
- Discuss the national impact of HIV;
- Discuss the global impact of HIV;
- Describe HIV Re-infection;
- Describe the importance of medication adherence; and
- Discuss the inter-relationship of HIV and other STDs.
6 Contact Hours Available
CRSW Performance Domains: 2-4
LADC/MLADC Categories of Competence: 1, 4-7, 10-13 & 15-18
Certified Prevention Specialist Domains: 2 & 6
NBCC: LICSW/L-MFT/LCMHC (Category A) & Psychologist (Category A)
NH Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No 6754. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NHADACA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
This training is financed under a contract with the State of NH, Department of Health and Human Services, with funds provided in part by the State of NH and/or such funding sources as were available or required, e.g., the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
James Figueiredo
CEO
Community Workforce Institute
James Figueiredo, M.Ed. is the Executive Director and Founder of Community Workforce Initiative. He has over 3 decades of experience working in the public health field throughout the United States and internationally. His work is focused primarily on the professional development of frontline workers and their supervisors. James has extensive experience developing and delivering trainings on cultural competency, suicide prevention, HIV/AIDS, and leadership development. James has served as lecturer at Tufts University, APHA presenter, and member of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Suicide Prevention Advisory Committee. He is an author for the third edition of the Foundations for Community Health Workers textbook published in June 2024. During the height of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, James worked as a community health worker on an integrated clinical team at the Cambridge Health Alliance. He spent another decade at the Justice Resource Institute (JRI) as the Director of Education and Training, where he served as co-chair of the Diversity Committee, oversaw, and led trainings throughout sub-Saharan Africa. He holds a Master of Education degree from Harvard University and Graduate Certificate in Non-Profit Leadership and Management from Boston University. As an undergraduate he studied English Language and Literature at West London College in the United Kingdom. He most enjoys spending time with his spouse and children on backpacking trips. He aspires to be a coffee grower, avocado farmer, and beekeeper when he retires.