National Minority AIDS Council Building Healthier Communities

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Deadline for the 2009 USCA Abstracts Is Tomorrow, Friday April 24th! Tomorrow is your last chance to submit an abstract for the 2009 USCA! For more information and to submit your abstract online, go to http://www.2009usca.org/. Abstracts that are chosen for presentation receive a range of benefits including complimentary conference registration and paid hotel nights (for seminars and workshops).   Based on the feedback that we have received from constituents like you and our USCA partners, we want to make sure that we receive abstracts addressing the following topics:  - Organizational Sustainability - Survival tools and resources for operating an AIDS service organization and/or faith- and community-based organization during tough economic times / Working with limited resources - How to survive an agency merger: What are the best practices? - Advanced sessions addressing the issues of Executive Directors - HIV/AIDS over 50 - Parallels of high HIV Incidence between different metropolitan areas e.g. DC, New Orleans, NYC, Puerto Rico - Translating skills, for example: Helping outreach workers receive skills on working in office environments, helping workers most comfortable in office environments learn how to do outreach - Consumer empowerment: Being active in your HIV/AIDS Care / Maintaining a partnership with your medical professional - Home-grown interventions that are not DEBI/EBIs - Recruiting new leaders into the HIV/AIDS movement - Lost to care and retention in care - CTR training for non-clinics - Sessions addressing African American heterosexual men - Sessions addressing transgenders - How to engage schools and youth in HIV prevention and education opportunities - Responding to the medicalization of the Ryan White CARE Act: Providing supportive services when it’s not considered a "core medical service?" - How does the RWCA fit into the Obama Administration’s health care reform goals - HIV Treatment and Access If you have any questions, please visit USCA online at http://nmac.convio.net or contact us directly at (202) 483-NMAC (6622) or conferences@nmac.org.