Resource Library
Resources, tools, and learning opportunities from the CTN+, our collaborators, and others.
Activating Knowledge Across Our Network
Part of the CTN+ Community-Centred Knowledge Mobilization Hub, our Resource Library is a place to share documents, videos, and training resources about HIV and STBBI research, care, and related topics.
If you have ideas about what else should be included in the Library, please reach out to info@ctnplus.ca.
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Pauktuutit
The Community Readiness Model is a tool that can help communities determine how ready they are to deal with a specific issue. This project aimed to adapt, pre-test and use the CRM to identify how ready three communities (Arviat, Clyde River and Kugluktuk) are to deal with HIV.
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Trauma- and violence-informed physical examinations and STBBI testing: A guide for service providers
Resource CategoriesTypesCanadian Public Health Association
This tool provides general recommendations for using a trauma-informed approach when performing any physical examinations or procedures, focusing on language and maneuvers intended to increase patients’ sense of comfort, safety and control during examination.
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Canadian Public Health Association
Trauma- and violence-informed care (TVIC) is a framework that helps individuals and organizations provide safe and inclusive sexual health, substance use and STBBI-related services. TVIC reduces service barriers and promotes strategies and changes in organizations to result in more caring, compassionate, person-centered and non-judgmental care.
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Canadian Public Health Association
This guide aims to reduce stigma by offering strategies that facilitate safer and more respectful discussions about sexual health, substance use and STBBIs between service providers and clients. The guide also offers ways to improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of STBBIs.
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Canadian Public Health Association
This resource, developed in partnership with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, explains the important role of privacy and confidentiality in reducing stigma and discrimination related to STBBIs, and offers frontline health and social service providers several strategies they can use to deal with issues related to privacy, confidentiality, the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure and stigma…
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Canadian Public Health Association
This psychometrically validated tool, based on the Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale, offers several questions to help front-line health and social service providers reflect on their own attitudes, values and beliefs related to STBBIs.
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Canadian Public Health Association
This tool assists organizations in identifying the policy, environmental and cultural factors that contribute to the reduction of stigma and, in turn, creating settings where clients feel welcomed and respected when seeking care.
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Canadian Public Health Association
This document aims to reduce stigma through the careful consideration of language associated with sexual health, substance use, and communities and is intended to help health and social service providers identify language that can facilitate safer and more respectful discussions about sexual health, substance use, and STBBIs.