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8:30 to 9:30 A.M. Registration and Continental Breakfast
10:00 A.M. Opening Remarks
11:00 A.M. Confronting HIV/AIDS in the Latino Communities: Key Issues in 2008
12:30 P.M. Lunch/Gatherings/Encuentros
1:30 to 3:30 P.M. Cycle One Workshops: Behavioral Science Track
*Follow-up Behavioral Interventions for Latinas
*Overview of Community Mapping
*ABC of Evaluation as a Central Tool
*The Use of Logic Models as a Planning Tool
*Successful Recruitment and Retention Strategies
*Nuevos Desarrollos en El Campo de Tratamiento al VIH/SIDA
3:30 to 3:45 P.M. Coffee Break
3:45 to 5:45 P.M. Cycle Two Workshops
* Addressing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Prevention Issues
* Successful HIV interventions for Youth
* Smoking Cessation Programs: The Connection with HIV/AIDS
* New Strategies of Harm Reduction
* Addressing the Realities of Migrant Farm Workers
* Testing as a Social Networking Model
* Seniors and HIV
5:45 P.M. Rest
6:30 P.M. Dinner and Celebration
8:00 A.M. Continental Breakfast
9:00 to 12 00 P.M. Manos Unidas/Capacity Building Assistance Program and Hispanic Federation’s Skills Building Institute
How to Conduct Successful Recruitment and Retention in Your Programs
Recruitment and Retention is the heart of measuring success in your programs. Participants will learn different strategies for Recruitment and Retention and how to access assistance in the implementation.
Advocacy 101: What Can You Do to Influence Government Policy and Funding
Participants will learn the basics of the state legislative process and how they can become involved, as well as a range of advocacy strategies including education, community mobilization, media planning, letter writing campaigns, petitioning and much more.
Social Marketing: National Latino AIDS Awareness Day and the NLAAD Model for Planning, Launching and Evaluating a Social Marketing Campaign
Attendees will become familiar with what social marketing is, what the common elements of an effective campaign plan and model are, and how these methods can be applied to improving HIV prevention efforts. Attendees will be provided with basic, real-world tools and information that can be used readily within their organizations to begin planning a social marketing campaign.
Developing Networks Among Latinos/as Living with HIV/AIDS
This session is for persons living with HIV and AIDS to share and build leadership at all levels. This session will be conducted in Spanish.
12:00 P.M. Closing Prayer and Remembrance led by the Latino Religious leadership Project / Box Lunch
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