Expanding The Continuum

Join Ashley in conversation with national HIV advocate and leader Evany Turk to discussing the intersections of mental health, IPV, and HIV for Black women.

Hear from activist Ashley Cobb on strategies for ensuring our work with survivors of domestic and sexual violence is sex positive and healing! Follow Ashley on social media at @sexwithashley.

Welcome to Season Four off Expanding The Continuum! Join us for a special conversation for Sexual Assault Awareness Month to learn about how sexual violence advocates are offering health and harm reduction strategies for survivors, including PrEP and emergency contraception. Check out a new resource from Futures Without Violence, The American College of Emergency Contraception, and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Emergency Contraception: A Guide for Advocates: https://ipvhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ASEC-DV-SV-Factsheet_Apr-2024.pdf

Hear from Jennifer Peña, MD, FACP at Q Care Plus about ways in which innovative telehealth strategies can make it easier for survivors to access PrEP and get HIV care. Ashley talks with Dr. Peña about privacy, safety, increasing access and more! Learn more about Dr. Peña s work here: https://qcareplus.com/creating-medical-belonging-for-hispanic-latinx-communities/

Our hosts Ashley Slye and Surabhi Kukke round out Expanding the Continuum season two with highlights and new questions.

Hear from the amazing Olivia Ford & Ciarra “Ci Ci” Covin at The Well Project who are leading efforts to ensure that birthing people can breast or chest feed their infants regardless of their HIV status.

Join us for another conversation with Dr. Oni Blackstock and Victoria Graves-Cade on aging, HIV, and health equity.

Learn from domestic violence advocates Caely Flynn and Evan Jones from Sojourner House about how to integrate HIV testing and other sexual health strategies into anti-violence programs! For a more in-depth overview of Sojourner House's HIV program, visit: https://nnedv.org/resources-library/interview-sojourner-house/

**Special Live Episode!** This episode was a live conversation recorded on March 30th, 2023! Kneeshe Parkinson (She/Her), Consultant, Activist, Navigator, KneesheSpeaksSTL Ashley Slye (She/Her), Deputy Director, Positively Safe & Domestic Violence Counts, National Network to End Domestic Violence Dr. LaShonda Spencer, MD (She/Her), Professor of Pediatrics/ Internal Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science For more information: https://healthpartnersipve.org/learning-opp/health-justice-in-practice-supporting-survivors-of-intimate-partner-violence-and-exploitation-who-are-living-with-hiv-in-community-health-centers/

Kicking off season three strong with an interview with Gabriela Zapata-Alma from the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health. Gabriela has worked in anti-violence and substance use for over 15 years and joins us for a powerful follow up conversation about harm reduction. http://www.nationalcenterdvtraumamh.org

Beyond trauma-informed care: Changing the narrative by A podcast from Futures Without Violence and NNEDV

Harm Reduction movement leader Dinah Ortiz offers basics about values and strategies of harm reduction. Follow Dinah @Dinahortiz4 Learn more about her work at the North Carolina Urban Survivors Union https://ncurbansurvivorunion.org/about/ncsu-board-members/

SPECIAL EPISODE! This episode is co-sponsored by Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation, a project of Futures Without Violence that works with community health centers to address and prevent intimate partner violence, human trafficking, and exploitation. Tune in to hear FUTURES' Surabhi Kukke talk with Dr. Dana Hines, a national expert on the intersections of HIV and IPV, about the ways that the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau creates opportunities through the Ryan White Program for community health centers and other grantees to address and prevent domestic and sexual violence. What did you think about this episode? Let us know! https://redcap.link/snxltwij Resources: https://ryanwhite.hrsa.gov/about/parts-and-initiatives/part-d-swic www.healthpartnersipve.org https://ipvhealthpartners.org/partner/ Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation, a project of Futures Without Violence is funded by HRSA's Bureau of Primary Health Care to provide free training and technical assistance to health centers on the topics of intimate partner violence, human trafficking and exploitation. A toolkit for health centers IPVHealthPartners.org includes an MOU template for building new partnerships discussed in today's episode. Learn more about our resources and programs and join our newsletter at www.healthpartnersipve.org. This podcast was developed with support from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $650,000 with 0 percent financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more info visit HRSA.gov.

Join Ashley Slye as she talks with Lisa Diane White from SisterLove and Sevonna Brown of Black Women's Blueprint about what reproductive justice looks like in practice when centering survivors living with HIV. https://www.sisterlove.org https://www.blackwomensblueprint.org

Ashley Slye in conversation with Amy Palilonis, Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Housing at HUD and Eva Lessinger, Director of Programs at the New Orleans Family Justice Center about the importance of safe and secure housing for survivors of IPV who are living with HIV and the innovative work being done across the country to ensure housing justice. https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/comm_planning/hopwa https://nofjc.org

In this episode of Expanding the Continuum, the tables are turned, and Ashley Slye, NNEDV, will be asking Surabhi Kukke and Kate Vander Tuig of Futures Without Violence about an approach that HIV programs can use to support patients who are experiencing violence in their relationships - an approach that does not require patients to disclose to their provider in order to get support. Learn more about the CUES universal education intervention for IPV in healthcare settings: https://ipvhealth.org/health-professionals/educate-providers/

We are so excited to have Naina Khanna, Positive Women's Network - USA as our guest on the kick-off episode of season two of Expanding the Continuum. Tune in to learn about the impact of HIV criminalization laws on survivors and ways that the Positive Women's Network is working to modernize them across the country. For more information visit: https://www.pwn-usa.org/issues/policy-agenda/ending-criminalization/ https://www.hivlawandpolicy.org/sourcebook

Season two of Expanding the Continuum is coming soon! Hear from hosts Surabhi and Ashley about their favorites from season one, and what they are looking forward to in season two!

In the first Expanding The Continuum Short, Surabhi talks with federal health policy expert Lena O'Rourke about the Open Enrollment period talking place now through May 15th, 2021 and how advocates and providers can help survivors get access to affordable health insurance coverage through Healthcare.gov! Find the resources for advocates that Lena describes here: https://wp.me/P8nsIW-3MG More information: https://www.healthcare.gov https://localhelp.healthcare.gov/#/

In this episode of Expanding The Continuum, co-host Ashley Slye talks with her colleagues Corbin Streett and Audace Garrett at NNEDV's Safety Net Project about how we can ensure that survivor's confidentiality and privacy is protected when building partnerships between HIV programs and domestic violence agencies. Episode Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQs-WzaJW5Qmgk_lEDSf8VYMXzgVSmsF3L2BKrNU9cljDcc9UmpGuXQyYtNWDPcIbsUgi1wNiCOF56A/pub Resources: https://nnedv.org/content/technology-safety/

In this episode of Expanding the Continuum we talk with with Tiara Willie, PhD and Kandis Backus, PharmD, MS, AAHIVP who have been working in different ways to expand access to PrEP for survivors of violence and women. They share some great ideas for advocates, HIV care providers, and others in the field! Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR0EgtktzSoKlOJ5Jrt4MZSBTLzVVP2RCP5_MGxVmmFXyXudb24Hye4JDzaFhndxjCw_LuPubzi1a_X/pub Follow Dr. Willie on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TiaraCWillie Resources: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341403557_Racial_and_ethnic_differences_in_women's_HIV_risk_and_attitudes_towards_pre-exposure_prophylaxis_PrEP_in_the_context_of_the_substance_use_violence_and_depression_syndemic

Hear from the amazing Dr. Oni Blackstock who schools us on the how intersecting oppressions drive both HIV and domestic violence, highlights how lessons from early years of the AIDS epidemic are playing out again are during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how she is looking towards the future while staying grounded in moment. Follow Dr. Blackstock on twitter: https://twitter.com/dronibee?lang=en Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQXTcxrSNeQudlLT_T6kBoAoBt-dGA_YjVHhtRKrMPAXKAHMX0I-kaTEsp-Ck7j4u44q05bO92d9b4D/pub Resources mentioned: GARE Race Equity tools: https://www.racialequityalliance.org/tools-resources/ Liberate Meditation App: https://liberatemeditation.com Lama Rod Owens: https://www.lamarod.com Sonya Renee Taylor's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonyareneetaylor/?hl=en

Welcome to Expanding the Continuum! In this podcast series we are going to be talking with people working and living at the intersections of HIV, health equity, and violence prevention. We hope you will join us!

In this episode of Expanding the Continuum, NNEDV's Ashley Slye and Robin Pereira explain the importance of partnerships between HIV and domestic violence advocacy programs. Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTTiq_7wOt2qOIFkaa3TZzWVx7qJzfqY0C7ieJjSY6OexXKWPLqRdoErtbt7gPFUmUpl4eTIqz9xAk4/pub Resources mentioned in this episode: DV and HIV/AIDS Toolkit - https://nnedv.org/resources-library/dv-hivaids-toolkit/ 17 Things You Can Do To Make a Difference for Survivors Living with HIV -https://nnedv.org/resources-library/17-things-can-make-difference-survivors-living-hiv/