More Than a Mood: Understanding Mental Health Warning Signs
May 20, 2026This podcast from DC Engage explores common indicators of mental health challenges. Listeners will gain insight into recognizing early warning signs, including changes in mood, behavior, and functioning.
Wellness Chronicles 12 — Aligned: The Power of the Body/Mind Connection
December 5, 2025This episode explores how mental and physical health are deeply connected, offering tips for achieving balance and overall wellness. We also examine how prioritizing holistic health can support HIV prevention and awareness—highlighting how stress, trauma, and mental health challenges can impact decision-making and risk, and how self-care and community support play a vital role in protecting ourselves and others.
Beyond the Role: Caregiving, Self-Care & HIV Prevention
September 22, 2025Black women are often the backbone of care in their families and communities—but who takes care of them? In this episode, we explore the realities of caregiving, especially for those navigating health systems, emotional labor, and generational responsibility. We discuss what it means to hold space for others while prioritizing your own well-being, including your sexual health. Through powerful stories, we highlight the importance of self-preservation, routine testing, and access to tools like PrEP—because HIV prevention is part of caring for yourself, too. Hear from those who have walked this path and learn how to receive the care you deserve while continuing to show up for the ones you love.
When Love Hurts: Intimate Partner Violence, HIV Risk, and the Path to Empowerment
September 19, 2025This powerful episode delves into intimate partner violence (IPV) through the lived experiences of Black women, revealing how abuse can erode autonomy, increase HIV risk, and limit access to prevention tools like PrEP and testing. It highlights the urgent need for trauma-informed, culturally affirming support that addresses both safety and sexual health. By connecting IPV and HIV prevention, the episode underscores the importance of empowering Black women with the resources and care they need to heal and thrive.
Boundaries and Healing: Nurturing Healthy Relationships
December 9, 2024In this episode, participants will delve into tools and insights dedicated to cultivating healthy relationships and healing from relationship trauma. We will explore the impact of trauma on relationships, the importance of establishing healthy boundaries, and pathways to healing. This episode aims to foster resilience, healing, and stronger, healthier connections.
Shattering Stigma: Cultivating Cultural Understanding for Mental Wellness
December 2, 2024Stigma presents itself in many forms and can create barriers to accessing care. In this episode, participants will explore how stigma surrounding mental health contributes to these issues.
Behavioral Health Models to Improve HIV Health Outcomes for Black Men Who Have Sex With Men
March 6, 2023Resources to facilitate the replication or adaption of successful interventions for engaging Black MSM in HIV medical care, behavioral health care, and support services and improving their health outcomes.
Reducing Harm When Using Drugs
August 5, 2022This resource provides general harm reduction tips for drug use and information on local harm reduction organizations.
Integrated HIV and Opioid Addiction Treatment with Buprenorphine
March 16, 2022Intervention consisting of on-site buprenorphine treatment guided by an experienced HIV physician who is
trained to incorporate motivational interviewing techniques into routine medical visits to provide substance use behavior counseling.
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Among Men Who Have Sex with Men – 23 Urban Areas, 2017
September 20, 2019A lower percentage of black and Hispanic men who have sex with men (MSM) than white MSM had discussed PrEP with a health care provider or had used PrEP within the past year. Healthcare provider training regarding cultural competencies may be beneficial when interacting with patients who are of these communities to ensure everyone gets equitable healthcare.
Come as You Are: Improving Care Engagement and Viral Load Suppression Among HIV Care Coordination Clients with Lower Mental Health Functioning, Unstable Housing, and Hard Drug Use
November 22, 2018The findings of this study suggest that there is a connection between support to address psychosocial barriers and greater improvement on indicators along the HIV continuum. The findings also aid as evidence to the role of Care Coordination in increasing health and survival opportunities among those who are at the highest risk for suboptimal HIV health outcomes.
