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Joan R. Ferguson is a
founder of the Community Wellness Project and a Capacity Building
Assistance Specialist with the Midwestern Prevention Intervention
Center of the African American Prevention Intervention Network (MPIC~APIN),
a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded project
designed to assist community based organizations and health
departments in the United States with adaptation, implementation,
quality assurance, and monitoring and evaluation of effective
evidence based HIV prevention interventions.An HIV/AIDS prevention
education specialist who is nationally certified by the American Red
Cross as an African-American HIV/AIDS Instructor and Instructor
Trainer, Ms. Ferguson is also certified in both Missouri and
Illinois to provide HIV/AIDS counseling, testing and referrals. Ms.
Ferguson has developed, written and facilitated several workshops
and trainings around HIV/AIDS prevention education, condom
negotiation, and sexual wellness with particular regard to high-risk
heterosexuals, substance users, men who have sex with men (MSM), and
the recently released and formerly incarcerated in communities of
color. She also has extensive experience writing and implementing
HIV/AIDS/STI prevention programs and training curriculums
including:
- Community Mobilization: Are You Ready?
- Condom Use and Safer Sex Negotiation:
Prevention for Positives
- Cultural Competency: Addressing
HIV/AIDS, Stigma and Denial in the African American Community
- Effective Street and Community Outreach
for African American MSM
Ms. Ferguson is a certified facilitator of,
and National Training Partner for, the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention’s Evidence Based Interventions, the Real AIDS
Prevention Project (RAPP), the Sisters Informing Sisters
About Topics on AIDS Project (SISTA), and VOICES/VOCES.
In this capacity, she is one of only four national lead trainers for
the SISTA and RAPP interventions.
Ms.
Ferguson also has an extensive background in journalism,
media/public relations and social marketing. Her work has appeared
in national publications including Essence. | |
| Dana Williams is the proposed CBA Co-Project Director for this initiative.
Currently serving as the Co-founder of The Community Wellness Project
and has a National Public Health Consultant. Ms. Williams serves
has an advisory board member of the nationally recognized CDC funded
project: African American Prevention Intervention Network (APIN).
She has been in the field of HIV/AIDS/STDS since 1987 and has an
established history in providing capacity building assistance to
community based and AIDS service organizations as well as state and
local health departments. Ms. Williams is a master-level trainer
for the American Red Cross HIV/AIDS Instructor Course in both the
African American and Fundamentals programs and is considered a trainer
of trainers for many CDC programs including SISTA and BART. Along
with her extensive experience in writing, developing, implementing
and evaluating many HIV/AIDS/STD programs and training curriculums
including: prevention case management, effective-street and community
outreach strategies, and community mobilization. Ms. Williams has
years of experience in managing federally funded grants and contracts
and continues to serve (when needed) as a national consultant for
the Center for Disease Control, the Office of Minority Health, the
Office of Women’s Health and the American Red Cross, African
American HIV/AIDS Program. She has spoken at many national and international
conferences on the following:
- Prevention
Case Management
- Cultural Competency and HIV/AIDS
- Community Mobilization/Needs Assessment
- Staff Development and training
- How to develop culturally specific HIV/AIDS programs
- Group Facilitation Skills
- Negotiating Safer Sex with your HIV/AIDS + partner
- Working with recently released/formerly incarcerated HIVAIDS Positive
women
- Program Planning – Design, Development Implementation
and Evaluation
- HIV/AIDS and Heart Disease
- Care for the Caregivers
- • Incarcerated – Recently
Release and Formerly Incarcerated
- African Americans (at-risk)
- Hispanic
- Substance Users
- White
- Women
- Youth
- Faith Based (Initiatives)
- Commercial Sex Workers/Prostitutes/Street Demonstration
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Eddie Burgos is one of the CBA Specialist for this project. Mr. Burgos is a co-founder of The Community Wellness Project (CWP) and currently serves in the capacity of Transitional Case Manager for The Community Wellness Project. Mr. Burgos is an HIV/AIDS prevention education specialist who is nationally certified by the American Red Cross as an African American/Hispanic Instructor, and certification ready as a substance abuse counselor. Mr. Burgos has extensive experience and expertise in providing capacity building assistance to substance abuse treatment providers and, HIV/Substance Abuse prevention education in both Spanish and English.
Mr. Burgos has assisted in designing, implementing and facilitating workshops, seminars, various support groups, and educational trainings on HIV/AIDS and or HIV/Drug Education with particular regard to substance users/abusers, high risk heterosexuals, PLW/H/A, youth, men who have sex with men (MSM) and incarcerated or recently released men and women in communities of color. Topics include:
- Transitional Case Management: Assessing and re-engaging Positives to ADAPT
- Prevention Case Management: Prevention for High Risk Populations
- Management: Substance Abuse Research Project
- Coordinator: Syphilis Elimination Project/HIVAIDS Counseling and Testing
- Substance Abuse Counseling: Residential/Relapse Prevention Specialist
- Community Outreach: For hard to reach Populations in Communities of Color
- Cultural Competency: Addressing Stigma, Prejudice, and Denial in The African American/Hispanic Communities
Mr. Burgos has received skills-building certificates in Substance Abuse Counseling, R.A.S.A.C. I and II, C.S.A.C. ready, from the M.S.A.C.C.B.
Certified HIV/AIDS Hispanic/African American Instructor, HIVAIDS Oral Test Method, Pre-Post Test Counselor (Negative and Positive), and Partner Solicitation. |
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Mr. Howze has over 20 years of experience in the field of HIV/AIDS.
He began this work as a psychotherapist, in Dallas, Texas, counseling
individuals with HIV/AIDS, and was a contributing author in the book
titled Care for the Caregiver edited by Ted Eidson. He has also coordinated
substance abuse programs for men with HIV/AIDS and participated in
the early pre and post HIV antibody test counseling after the HIV
antibody test was developed. Mr. Howze also participated in the first
Federally funded Longitudinal Behavior Change Study for African American
gay and bi-sexual men under the direction of Dr. Jon Peterson at
the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies in San Francisco. Mr. Howze
supervised the Ryan White Titles I and II system of case management
for St. Louis City and surrounding counties through the St. Louis
City Department of Health for over six years.
Mr. Howze is also an excellent facilitator and trainer. He has designed
and implemented many educational training sessions for professionals
and community members. He is a Nationally Certified Master Level
Instructor Trainer in the African American HIV/AIDS Training Course
through the American Red Cross. Mr. Howze has presented workshops
at a number of conferences such as AIDS in the Heartland, the U.S.
Conference on AIDS, and the National Conference on Social Work and
HIV/AIDS.
Recently, Mr. Howze was the Principle Investigator for a research
project designed to assess the barriers and facilitators for African
Americans in accessing HIV Care and Treatment Services. This project
was funded through the Special Projects of National Significance
(SPNS) branch of the Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA). Currently, Mr. Howze is a Co-Founder of The Community Wellness Project.
This agency provides Early Intervention Services such as HIV Antibody
Counseling and Testing, as well as screening for Syphilis and other
health disparities, to under-served and under-represented people
of color in the St. Louis Region (including Illinois). The agency
also provides HIV/AIDS/STD education, Street and Community Outreach,
as well as technical assistance and capacity building to community
based and AIDS service organizations. Mr. Howze also serves as a consultant to other Community Based and
AIDS Service Organizations such as The AIDS Prevention Intervention
Network through Jackson State University, to provide technical assistance
in the areas of Program Development and Implementation, Case Management,
Early Intervention, and many others. |
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Karla D. Scott, Ph.D., project director for MPIC-APIN,
earned her doctorate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with
an emphasis in intercultural communication and joined the SLU communication
faculty in 1994. An award winning teacher, she was appointed director
of Saint Louis University's African American Studies Program in 2000.
Her research interest in culture and communication includes a focus on
issues related to race, gender, class and language—with a particular
interest in health in African American communities. Karla has examined
the role of cultural competence in HIV prevention programs as part of
a CDC funded evaluation team and as coauthor
of a CDC published research synthesis: Cultural Competence for Providing Technical
Assistance Evaluation and Training for HIV Prevention Programs. She has also
presented findings at the following conferences:
- U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration National Conference on Women.
- National Conference on Social Work and HIV/AIDS.
- National Conference on Health Care and Domestic Violence.
- U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Capacity Building for HIV Prevention conference
- U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Center for Disease Control and Prevention/Association of Schools of Public Health HIV Leadership Institute
- The National Communication Association
- U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, REACH 2010 Demonstration Project Grantee Evaluation Workshop.
- The American Public Health Association.
- The World AIDS Conference.
A co-authored article on HIV prevention, cultural competence and women of color is scheduled for publication in late 2004 in Health Care for Women International. Karla's other scholarly publications on language use in the African American community appear in Discourse and Society, Women and Language, Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity and Communication and Centering Ourselves: African American Feminist and Womanist Studies of Discourse.
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Andrea Davis manages the fiscal operations of the Community Wellness
Project. She is a licensed CPA in the state of Missouri. She has
over 10 years of accounting experience working for not-for-profit
organizations and in public accounting. She is a member of the National
Association of Black Accountants. Ms. Davis has a masters degree
from St. Louis University. |
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