Who we serve
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ABRPO is funded to provide training to frontline HIV Organizations and Harm Reduction Agencies in Ontario.
Frontline HIV/AIDS caregivers meet enormous personal and professional challenges. As a result, turnover is high and many who continue are challenged to function well due to “compassion fatigue”. Challenges include:
- Ongoing deaths and inescapable shadow of death
- Stigmatized work
- Complex and acute disease manifestation
- Work with diverse populations.
ABRPO supports frontline workers through sessions which provide:
- Recognition of their responses as “normal responses to an abnormal situation”
- Team solidarity
- Opportunity to develop the necessary coping skills
- Enhanced peer support capabilities
- Understanding of the impact of the work on themselves and others
- Self confidence and pride in their work
- Renewed inspiration
- Ongoing, sustainable re-commitment
ABRPO helps strengthen organizational capacity by:
- providing practical workshops,
- providing thorough training programs,
- helping HIV/AIDS workers constantly adapt to unavoidably complex issues,
- revealing and building resiliency skills.
Training topics covered include:
- Establishing Safety
- Creating guidelines for risk-taking
- Comprehensive Attachment Grief/Loss theory
- Inviting exploration: Loss History
- Creating an environment for Reflection/Integration
- Group building exercises
- How to use various teaching tools
- Understanding Multiple Loss, the Shattering of Assumptions and the Need to make Meaning
- Holistic Health, Change Theory and Building Capacity (Internal Reliance)
- Closure Theory