Transforming Pleasure and Wellness: Party Culture, Safety, and Drug User Health
July 1, 2026In this episode, we explore the intersections of pleasure, community wellness, stigma reduction, and drug user health.
Building Bridges: Stakeholder Identification and Community Engagement
Strong partnerships are the foundation of meaningful community impact. In this episode, we explore how organizations can identify key stakeholders, foster authentic relationships, and strengthen community engagement efforts to create lasting change.
Care Delayed: Understanding Barriers to Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment
May 20, 2026This podcast from DC Engage explores the complex barriers that individuals face when seeking care for mental health and substance use challenges. From stigma and systemic inequities to logistical and financial obstacles, the discussion highlights how these factors impact access to timely and effective treatment.
More Than a Mood: Understanding Mental Health Warning Signs
This 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.
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.
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.
Unpacking the Impact: Intergenerational Trauma and Health Disparities
November 25, 2024In this episode, participants will unpack the nuances and complexities of intergenerational traumas and how they manifest in our current lives.
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.
