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Program Brochure
Learn more about SPHERE in our  Program Brochure here.


Featured Resource:
"A Public Health Approach to Overdose Prevention" by the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, 8/22/12

 

Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Office of HIV/AIDS: "HIV/AIDS Service and Resource Guide." October 2012


Special Training Series:
SH/HIP & AHEC of Southeastern Massachusetts Special Training Series Schedule Here


Upcoming PAC-Net Meetings
Save the Date for our
Spring May 2013 Meetings:

  • May 14, 2013- Northampton
  • May 15, 2013- Brockton
  • May 16, 2013 - Canton
  • May 21, 2013 - Boston
  • May 22, 2013- Worcester
  • May 23, 2013- Tewksbury

(PACs need attend only one of these dates)

Online registration here.



SPHERE
Health Imperatives
942 West Chestnut Street
Brockton, MA 02301
(800) 530-2770

PO Box 285
Amherst, MA 01004
(413) 256-3406

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SPHERE is an HIV/AIDS capacity-building project that works with health and human service providers to integrate HIV/viral Hepatitis education and services and harm reduction into their work.

We work with:

  • drug and alcohol treatment providers,
  • community health workers,
  • family planning providers,
  • HIV service workers,
  • youth service providers,
  • outreach workers, and
  • providers working in correctional settings.


Our goals are to:

  • increase provider knowledge
  • improve provider integration skills
  • build provider referral capacity
  • support provider willingness and capacity to engage in integration activities
  • support clients to receive the HIV related information and support they need


Our activities include:

  • client-centered state-of-the-art training
  • skill-building opportunities
  • resources and provider tools
  • ongoing technical assistance



Currently, our primary areas of focus are:

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Viral Hepatitis
  • Sexually transmitted infections
  • Harm reduction
  • Opioid overdose prevention
  • Substance Use/Mis-use



We are funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) to offer HIV/AIDS statewide capacity-building support to DPH-funded drug and alcohol treatment programs in Massachusetts.

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For more information about Health Imperatives and other services provided by the agency, please visit Prevention & Community Services. For more information on The Statewide Homeless/HIV Integration Project (SH/HIP), click here.