Nanciellen Poulin, Program HIV/AIDS Coordinator (therapist from the Brien Center for Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services in Pittsfield, MA) created an easy way to adapt our new overdose prevention conversation starter stickers so she could wear it all the time. Find out how!

SPHERE is an HIV/AIDS capacity-building project that works with health and human service providers to integrate HIV education and services into their work. We work with drug and alcohol treatment providers, community health workers, family planning providers, HIV service workers, and others. Our goal is to help providers gain the knowledge, skills and access to resources needed to integrate HIV-related assessment, prevention and services into their work and benefit their clients and patients.

We are committed to providing client-centered state-of-the-art training, skill-building opportunities, resources, and technical assistance to help providers integrate issues related to HIV, Hepatitis C and STDs into their work.  By offering a strong knowledge foundation, creative and engaging tools, and effective strategies and skills to use them, our trainings and technical assistance serve the continuum of HIV needs. For a copy of the SPHERE Program brochure, please click here.

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.

To access a complete list of our capacity-building services, click here.

To access a listing of the populations that benefit from SPHERE’s services, click here.

SPHERE is also available to consult in any area of our expertise. For more information on SPHERE’s consulting, click here.

For more information about Health Care of Southeastern Mass 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.