HIV Prevention the Topic of Conference
AIDS Care will host daylong conferences Monday and Tuesday aimed at educating health care professionals about HIV prevention and risk reduction.
The event, designed to reach out to people who provide service or care to alcohol and drug users, will offer a variety of workshops, including one dealing with cultural factors in substance abuse and another focusing on issues surrounding needle exchange and bleach distribution programs. Other topics will include women’s issues, relapse, mentally ill substance abusers and risk-reduction counseling.
Keynote addresses will be delivered by Neva Chauppette, a Los Angeles-based psychologist who heads two mobile clinics that provide free HIV services to substance abusers, and Sally Greninger, an addictive behaviors specialist at the AIDS Service Center in Pasadena.
Workshop participants will receive certificates of attendance and may earn professional development hours at the session, which is co-sponsored by the Ventura County Behavioral Health Department.
The conferences will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day at the James F. Cowan Conference Center at the Ventura County superintendent of schools office, 550 Airport Way, Camarillo.
The cost is $35 for one or two days, and $5 per day for lunch. Registration is at 8 a.m. either day, or call 643-0446 to preregister or for more information.
