Training

Sahir House Information & Training Service for health, social care & community sector workers
How to make your organisation more HIV aware & HIV friendly

HIV awareness training course This course will develop your organisation’s equal opportunities & HIV policy & offer best practice guidelines within the workplace, by exploring:

HIV risk assessment: what is safe or risky behaviour & activity?
Current trends on HIV testing & facilities available
The physical & mental health effects of HIV
HIV conditions & treatments
HIV myths, attitudes & prejudice to increase confidence when challenging HIV discrimination
The social & emotional impact of those living with HIV & their families and carers
Information about Sahir House services & wider support available for referral purposes
HIV information & training sessions are complemented with a HIV positive guest speaker talking on their experience of living with HIV
(Subject to availability)

Who this course can be useful for?

It is ideal for:

workers in the voluntary and statutory sector
health workers
housing organisations
equality & diversity specialists
advice workers, youth & community workers
teachers
probation staff
drug workers
welfare workers
trade union representatives
support workers
sport & fitness staff
social workers and counsellors.

Sahir House welcomes staff from all areas of the workplace, including:

hands on carers
managers
admin departments
committee members

Courses include veggie/halal friendly lunch. Training sessions are complemented with a HIV positive guest speaker talking on their experience of living with HIV (subject to availability). Contact the Training Coordinator for more details.

Quotes from participants:

'This course has been useful for my work because I am able to use this HIV info and signpost clients and will be able to empathise better' - Housing organisation
'This course will enable me to talk to my client's confidentiality about HIV' - housing organisation
'Very good introduction to the issues of HIV and felt the positive speaker was excellent' - council employee
'This course in not mandatory in this Primary Care Trust, but I would recommend it to colleagues from all professions' - PCT employee
'Straight facts I found make the issues surrounding HIV much less daunting than I had previously felt.' - medical student