Community Education

Information and Resources

HIV Edmonton’s library of films, pamphlets, and training guides is available for clients, service providers and the general public. Drop by to check out our library, or call Sue Ann at 488-5742 ext 221, or contact7@hivedmonton.com if you would like to order pamphlets/posters/condoms for your school, office or community.

Workshops

Dynamics of HIV/AIDS

This is a two-day workshop that provides an introduction to HIV/AIDS and related issues. Dynamics is targeted at agency volunteers, allied service providers and the general public in order to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in the community.

Topics covered:
HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, treatment, harm reduction, population health, universal precautions, gender issues, human rights, and international issues.  If you'd like more information on what to expect from Dynamics, follow this link.

This workshop is offered three times per year.  

If you are interested in attending the next offering of the Dynamics of HIV/AIDS, please contact Jen at (780) 488-5742 Ext 229 or email jen.p@hivedmonton.com

School presentations

HIV Edmonton partners with the Students’ International Health Association (SIHA) at the University of Alberta to offer “Think Positive, Test Negative,” an interactive presentation geared towards junior and senior high school students. SIHA follows a harm reduction philosophy to offer information about HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, safer-sex, condom negotiation, and stigma and discrimination

SIHA offers presentations year round. Please contact siha_localprojects@yahoo.ca to book a presentation or call Lynn at 488-5742 ext. 241.

For more information about SIHA go to www.siha.ca/index.html

Positive Speakers

Trained volunteers provide information on the physical, emotional and psychological effects of HIV/AIDS, and discus real-life stories of living with HIV/AIDS.

Honorariums for volunteer speakers are suggested.

For more information please contact Lynn at comdev@hivedmonton.com or 488-5742 ext. 241.

Triple Threat: HIV/AIDS Youth Peer Educators

Triple Threat Workshop

Trained youth volunteers facilitate an interactive workshop for youth about HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections and sexual health. This workshop is geared towards youth in youth groups, drop-in centers, and youth-in-care.

Unfortunately, this program is not accepting new volunteers at this time. 

Thank you to the Wild Rose Foundation Quarterly Grants Program for supporting this program.

If you are interested in booking a Triple Threat Workshop, please contact Jen at (780) 488-5742 Ext 229 or email jen.p@hivedmonton.com

Gay/Bisexual Men & HIV Social Marketing Campaigns

In 2003, AIDS Vancouver invited HIV Edmonton and organizations from five other Canadian cities to partner in Canada's first ever national social marketing campaign focusing on gay/bisexual/MSM and HIV/AIDS.  The organizations involved include; AIDS Vancouver, Community Based Research Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia Persons Living With AIDS, HIV Edmonton, Nine Circles of Winnipeg, ACToronto, Action Sero Zero & AIDS Community Care of Montreal,  AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia in Halifax; and the Canadian AIDS Society.

The first campaign, released in 2004 was imported from San Francisco and was called "How do you know what you know" or "The Assumptions Campaign".  The campaign was produced on billboards, bus shelters, posters, post cards and bathroom ads in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver.  Provinces where additional funds were secured, the campaign was expanded to other smaller cities.  The goal of the campaign was to prompt gay/bisexual/MSM men to check the assumptions they make about their sexual partners and featured men presumably engaged in anal intercourse.  Click think-again.ca to go to the website.

The second campaign, launched in 2006 was designed to celebrate the large percentage of gay/bisexual/MSM who were testing negative for HIV.  The campaign was designed around playful names gay/bi/MSM call their penises and featured materials with "crotch" photos of a variety of below the belt shots and a series of materials with several hundred names.  The campaign, known as Gay Men Play Safe employed billboards, bus shelters, street ads, bicycle racks, posters, post cards and bathroom ads in the same cities as the 2004 campaign.   An online feature of this campaign was a viral video that was designed to share with online friends and colleagues.  Click gaymenplaysafe.com. to go to the website

Click Gay Men Play Safe to view the short video.

A third campaign is being designed for release through the summer and fall of 2008.  For this campaign, the National Advisory Committee welcomes the AIDS Comittee of Ottawa, AIDS Calgary as well as the Rainbow Resource Centre of Winnipeg as new partners.   The NAC is also negotiating a national busiiness partner who will be active in the dissemination of our campaign across Canada.  Come back for regular updates on the progress of the campaign as well as firm launching dates for the various cities across Canada.