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HIV is Not a Crime VI Training Academy�Request for Workshop Submissions

January 14, 2025

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The North Carolina Host Committee welcomes you all to Raleigh for HINAC 6!

Alicia Diggs Judy Montenegro

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Housekeeping

This webinar will be recorded for those not able to join us today

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if you have a question, please post in chat box to the left

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Program Workgroup

Kevin Lish Kelly Flannery

SERO Project PWN–USA

DeKeitra Griffin Tami Haught Isis Tapia

US PLHIV Caucus SERO Project SERO Project

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HINAC VI Training Academy

The Training Academy will unite and train advocates living with HIV and allies from across the country on laws criminalizing people living with and vulnerable to HIV and on strategies and best practices for repealing such laws

HIV is Not a Crime VI Training Academy will be held May 31 - June 3, 2025, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina

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Critical Dates

Call for abstracts	January 14th
Abstract submission deadline	February 28th
Accepted abstracts announced	April 22nd
Finalized program and agenda	April 30th

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Critical Information

Please note–ALL proposals must include at least ONE person living with HIV in each submission. This means PLHIV must be materially and substantially involved with the

Planning and
Development and
Writing and
Presentation of each abstract submitted

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Required information

All presenters are required to register for the conference or have received a scholarship; HINAC VI will NOT have the capability to facilitate virtual presenters.
Unfortunately, we don’t have funding to provide registration or travel for presenters.

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What We Are Looking For

We expect to receive more breakout session proposals than we can accommodate. When making selection decisions, we have many considerations to balance, including our desire to elevate diverse leadership, new organizations, and new voices into the mix at each Training Academy.

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Most Favorable Consideration

Participatory: Interactive, with mutual communication amongst participants and between participants and presenters, and hands-on engaging activities.
Timely: Demonstrates an understanding of the current socio-political environment, especially in relation to the criminal legal system, surveillance, policing, and mass incarceration.
Practical: Provide participants with useful tools, including innovative strategies, exemplary models, powerful narratives, and accessible artistic and cultural expressions.

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Most Favorable Consideration

Intersectional: Demonstrates an analysis of complex ways that multiple systems of oppression (such as racism, misogyny, homophobia, transmisia, and classism) are interconnected and overlapping, creating additional barriers for people with multiple, marginalized identities.

For more information you can review this video or this interview with Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Cross-movement organizing: Demonstrates consideration of, and engagement with, related movements for bodily autonomy and ending mass incarceration, such as abolitionist, drug use decriminalization, economic justice, and sex work decriminalization movements

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Most Favorable Consideration

Intergenerational: Relevant content to, and encouraging of, the participation of youth and young people, long-term survivors, dandelions or people born with HIV, and older people living with HIV, as well as multi-generational strategies.
Geographic Diversity: We prioritize content and facilitators that relate to different geographic areas, especially the South.
Centering of Racial Justice: Analysis and approach that seeks to build a racially just and strategic movement to end HIV criminalization. We encourage proposals that include Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and all people of color living with HIV as facilitators and/or presenters.
Uses People first language: language matters, we are asking that all proposals use people first language which centers people’s dignity rather than stigmatizing them.

Download People First Language

here

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What We Do Not Want

Lectures, presentations of academic papers or mostly theory, or panels that primarily involve people talking at others.
Sessions that do not have a connection to people working in local communities.
Sessions that focus primarily on a problem, without equal or greater attention given to proposed solutions.
Sessions by individuals not engaged with, connected or accountable to social justice organizations or communities.

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People First Language

Stigmatizing

Preferred

HIV infected person
Died of AIDS
Full Blown AIDS
Became infected
Victim
A Transgender

Person living with HIV, PLHIV
Died of AIDS-related illness, AIDS-related complications
There is no medical definition for this phrase, simply use AIDS
Contracted, acquired, diagnosed with
PLHIV
Transgender Person, Person of Transgender Experience

Download People First Language Here!

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Submission

Guidance

Applicants may submit up to two workshops for consideration.

For each 90-minute workshop.

There is a 4 person limit to the number of total presenters on a workshop, we encourage no more than 4 people so workshops doesn’t become a lecture and can be participatory.

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Review Criteria

Workshop submissions will be reviewed and evaluated by a volunteer Program Work Group Reviewer Committee on the following criteria:

alignment with track description and Training Academy goals and guiding principles,
clarity of description, and
appropriateness of suggested format.

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Review Criteria

Workshop submissions will be reviewed and evaluated by a volunteer Program Work Group Reviewer Committee on the following criteria:

4. HINAC 6 will offer continuing education credits for Case Managers who provide services to people who live with HIV.

5. No Change in Abstract format is required for continuing education credits!!!

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HINAC VI Continuing Education Units

The quality and value of Continuing Education Units depend on the expertise of the lead presenter. To be eligible to offer Continuing Education Units, the lead presenter must meet at least two of the following qualifications.

Required Criteria for Lead Presenter:

Education:

Master’s degree (or higher) in Social Work from a CSWE-accredited program, OR graduate/professional degree in psychology, medicine, nursing, law, or a related field.

Experience:

At least 3 years of demonstrated professional experience or research in the course subject area.

Academic Role:

Current faculty member of an accredited undergraduate or graduate school of social work.

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Workshops

We strongly encourage applicants to consider formats that engage participants, rather than simply presenting information. In addition, the program committee will review overall workshop acceptances with an eye towards diversity of presenters, particularly in demographics, geography, skills, and expertise.

Workshops will help advance informed and effective grassroots organizing and coalition-building providing participants with concrete tools and resources to work on state-level strategies when they return home.

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Identify a Track

There will be four tracks for submission:

Effective and Accountable Leadership,
Rights, Policy and Justice,
Campaign Planning, Strategy and Messaging, and
Core Curriculum.

Download HINAC VI Workshop Track Definitions

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Effective & Accountable Leadership

This track will focus on building relevant and current leadership skills for an effective and intersectional movement to end criminalization.

Submissions may include coalition-building, development of individual leadership skills, or centering disproportionately impacted communities.

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Rights, Policy, & Justice

This track will focus on policy issues and advocacy strategies relevant to disproportionately criminalized communities and the criminal legal system.

Submissions on issues specific to communities targeted by surveillance, policing, and incarceration due to race, gender identity, sexual orientation, substance use, immigration status, and other forms of discrimination are encouraged.

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Campaign Planning, Strategy & Messaging

This track will provide the resources, tools, and skills advocates need to successfully develop and implement a state-level campaign to repeal or modernize criminalization laws.

Submissions may focus on the “nuts-and-bolts” required for organizing, including messaging research and positioning, how to utilize research best to persuade media, policy leaders, and legislators, and the creation and execution of a campaign plan.

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Core Curriculum

This track will focus on subjects, tools, and skills considered essential to work in coalitions to end HIV criminalization (in other words, “core” knowledge and resources effective coalitions)

Submissions considered may include coalition development and strengthening, how to develop intersectional coalitions that are working for end HIV, sex work and drug use criminalization, specific actions, lessons learned or innovative approaches to changing the narrative and ending HIV criminalization.

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Call to Abstract Submissions on WHOVA!

Submission Link for HINAC 6

Submission Portal will open today at 9 pm ET

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Step One Sign In To WHOVA

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Complete Questions

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Main Presenter Information

If you log in with previous HINAC credentials, bio and picture from HINAC 5 should populate

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Main Presenter (if new to WHOVA or to make changes to an existing bio)

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Main Presenter CEU Questions for Licensed Clinical Social Workers (if new to WHOVA or to make changes to an existing bio)

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Submission Details

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Submission Details Continued

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Submission Details Continued

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Submission Details–Last Screen Before Final Submission

Note: Submissions can’t be edited after you hit submit!

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Recap of Vitals

PLEASE REMEMBER

ALL successful proposals must include at least ONE person living with HIV in each submission. This means PLHIV must be materially and substantially involved with the

Planning and
Development and
Writing and
Presentation of each abstract submitted

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Recap of Vitals

HIV is Not a Crime VI Training Academy will be held May 31 - June 3, 2025 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina
Submissions due Friday, February 28, 2025, by 11:59 pm EST
Four Tracks: 1) Effective and Accountable Leadership, 2) Rights, Policy, and Justice, and 3) Campaign Planning, Strategy, and Messaging and, 4) Core Curriculum. Identify which one you are submitting under
All presenters are required to register for the conference or have received a scholarship; HINAC VI will NOT have the capability to facilitate virtual presenters.

Unfortunately, we don’t have funding to provide registration or travel for presenters

REMEMBER to use person first language

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Questions

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC

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Program Co-Chair Contact info:

Kelly Flannery

kelly@pwn-usa.org

Kevin Lish

kevin.lish@seroproject.com �

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Announcements

The HIV is Not a Crime Hospitality and Culture Work Group is now taking applications for the HINAC6 HUMANities Art contest! HINAC6 and our partner organizations are inviting anyone living with HIV to submit work that centers on the lives and art of people living with HIV.

Submissions due by February 7, 2025.

Winners will be notified February 24, 2025 and will receive a full scholarship to #HINAC6.

Enter now at https://bit.ly/EnterHINAC6ArtContest

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