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.
Wellness Chronicles 6 — Understanding and Healing Trauma: Guide to Managing its Impact and Protecting Your Health
September 5, 2025This video explores the impact of trauma on mental, emotional, and physical well-being—and how healing can open the door to empowerment. Learn practical strategies for managing trauma and discover how trauma-informed care supports HIV prevention through tools like PrEP, testing, and self-advocacy. Whether you’re healing or helping others, this guide offers a path toward peace and protection.
Rooted in Wellness
September 6, 2024The Effi Barry Training Institute is excited to announce the launch of “Rooted in Wellness,” a new podcast mini-series dedicated to exploring holistic approaches to health and well-being. Join us as we delve into topics such as trauma, HIV, mental wellness, and the social determinants of health, all with the goal of helping you cultivate a balanced and thriving life. Tune in to “Rooted in Wellness” and embark on a journey of personal growth.
DC Engage Local Resource Guide
August 5, 2022This resource guide lists organizations in Washington, DC that offer assistance in areas including housing, harm reduction, safer sex and STI testing, food, clothing, legal, health care, and social support.
Barriers and opportunities for the mental health of LGBT older adults and older people living with HIV: A systematic literature review
November 16, 2021The study was conducted to review current literature regarding accessing mental health care among LGBT older adults and older PLWH. The results displayed a lack of provider competency in caring for LGBT patients, lower rates of insurance coverage, greater mental health burden, social and structural determinants of health, policy solutions, and technology and health literacy.
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.
